I was checking through the site logs this morning, and I noticed that I was getting a lot of traffic on two phrases in particular.  At least at the time of this writing, I have a post from this blog at the number two spot in Google's search results for both talking to clients and audit [...]...

Long overdue, I finally did a redesign of this Best Practices blog.  I was motivated to do this because I decided to upgrade to the latest version of Wordpress.  (I had been using 2.0.3, and the admin interface has gotten a lot better since then.)  Since I was going to all the trouble, though, I [...]...

I'm always looking for ways to improve my business. I mean that literally. It can be a problem. I'm always looking for little tweaks I can make. Last week an opportunity to dive into a new project came up, and I resented it. I didn't want to do any web development because I was too [...]...

On August 18th, 2006, I had a huge smile on my face as I drug my sleepy carcass across the bedroom to shut off the alarm clock. I felt so warm and serene knowing this was the last day I would ever have to set my alarm. This was the final episode of hopping on [...]...

A few weeks ago, Noah wrote a guest post about turning projects down. I shared my own ideas on the topic a few months back. Today it occurred to me the posts on this blog are really focusing on one side of the story. Now this is exactly the stuff you need to hear if [...]...