http://unfocusedcontent.com "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." - Horace Walpole Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:50:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was surprised to learn yesterday that the Democratic National Convention was in town. I thought I remembered writing a piece a month or two ago about being glad that the elections were over, but I guess I had my facts all jumbled. A quick scan of Google News this morning ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/08/28/democratic-national-convention/ When we start our fresh new blogs, we are excited and imagine ourselves posting every day (possibly several times a day) until, inevitably, we become so busy with the book deals that we just can’t keep up.  After months of regular posts, and with the noticeable lack of emails from ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/08/07/the-triumphant-return-of-the-blogger/ Humor Columnist is a word that I enjoy associating with myself. Also it is fun to say, if you do it with sort of an English accent. (Oh, but that would be humour columnist, not humor columnist.)  One of the most important thing you can do to convince people that ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/07/23/humor-columnist-except-for-the-humor/ served by picapp.com For the last 45 days I have been undercover, posing as an affiliate marketer on the Internet, in an attempt to learn all that I could about this illicit ring of hack sites and expose the pseudo-industry for what it is – a big fat hairy ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/07/18/affiliate-marketing-and-me-a-case-study/ I’ve always been a little freaked out by gorillas. Not that I’ve seen them often enough to form any real opinions of them, but on the few occasions that I have observed them in their faux-natural habitat, when they are not eating their own vomit; they seem to enjoy ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/07/13/seo-gorilla/ It became evident to me while on our trip to St John that other parts of the world do not adhere as strictly as we do to some basic safety rules. For instance, in St John they drive on the wrong side of the road, and most transportation is ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/07/07/please-keep-all-arms-legs-and-babies-inside-the-vehicle-at-all-times/ On this day in 1867, Canada sort of almost became an independent country. According to the Wikipedia article about Canada Day, the British Parliament had limited political control until 1982, when George Michael wrote the song “Constitution Act” that finally freed the Canucks from the tyrannical rule of those otherwise ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/07/01/oh-canada/ Based on the overwhelming response to yesterday’s post, I have decided to open a gift shop in Ronald Reagan airport selling books of mad libs with nothing but camp letters in them.  Please visit soon. I mentioned that while Carrie and I spent most of our week lying in the gutter ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/06/27/dog-days-of-summer/ I feel a little like Inigo Montoya in that, I’ve been doing the parent thing for so long that when I am not parenting, I don’t know what to do with myself. We dropped our kids off at camp on Sunday afternoon, and have had no communication with them since ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/06/26/letters-from-camp/ A co-worker mentioned that she was considering purchasing a sleep-number bed. Instead of just saying “that’s a bad idea,” I put together a small presentation complete with visual aids. This being the single-most inspired thing I’ve done all week, I decided it was, if not blog-worthy, at least blogable. The wife ... http://unfocusedcontent.com/2008/06/18/hey-baby-whats-your-sleep-number/