Monthly Archives: July 2009

Review: The Ugly Truth About Small Business

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 18, 2009
Just fin­ished The Ugly Truth About Small Busi­ness by Ruth King. I was deeply dis­ap­pointed by this book. To sum up the entire book: Run­ning a small busi­ness is hard so become a moti­va­tional speaker instead.
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The Benefits of Profiling

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 17, 2009
I run the Fake Name Gen­er­a­tor, a fairly pop­u­lar web­site that gen­er­ates fake names and addresses. The web­site offers free bulk orders of up to 40,000 names. For years I’ve been strug­gling to make this fea­ture run quickly. The best I’ve been able to get it down to is about 40,000 records in 37 min­utes. ~1,000 records [...]
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Painting Pictures

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 6, 2009
A few months ago, I bought my lovely wife some paints and a few blank can­vases to go with the easel I made her for Christ­mas. Well, things have been busy, and my wife hasn’t got­ten a chance to use the paints yet. Well we finally got every­thing set up, and got her going on her [...]
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Review: Negotiating Your Salary

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 4, 2009
I just fin­ished Nego­ti­at­ing Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute by Jack Chap­man. Although a lot of the infor­ma­tion was out­dated (the book has a “What to say in Y2K!” promo on the front…), it was an amaz­ing read. I loved it! Chock full of easy and use­ful tips, sam­ple dia­log, and easy to [...]
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