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The Vendor Client Relationship

Published by amit on August 6, 2009 under meta

This video from Scofield Editorial about vendor-client relationships made me laugh.  Consultants will get a kick out of it.

(Oh, dear clients, don’t worry. The video isn’t about you — it’s about other people’s clients. You’re the best, of course! ;-)

Would You Like to Play a Game?

Published by amit on August 16, 2008 under meta

Update: Game’s over! Congratulations, Douglas! If you want to play more or didn’t get a chance to play, you can check out Palabra, a Facebook game I’m releasing today.  It’s basically the game described here, but with three-letter words.  You can challenge your friends to see who’s got a better vocabulary.  50% of donations to the game go to UNICEF literacy programs.

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Welcome WordCamp SF folks!  Thanks for visiting returncontrol.com.  If you’re here for the word game, which puts you in the running for all sorts of fun and totally trivial prizes, we’ll get started at 10:15am sharp.

Here’s how you play: At 10:15am you’ll check back here, where I’ll have posted a word.  Your mission is to take the word and make as many new words as possible by changing just one letter at a time. For example: word => ward => bard => lard => laid => paid => etc., etc., etc….

THE WORD IS: “camp”.  Go! Go! Go!

Post your word “chain” to the comments of this blog post between 10:15am and 10:25am.  The person with the longest chain wins.  I’ll post the name of the winner (and a link to your blog) here.  If you win, you can get your prize by finding David “dk” at WordCamp.  He’s the guy in this picture.

Some quick rules: Only valid words according to dictionary.com count.  Any comments time-stamped after 10:25am are not eligible.  Please don’t cheat and steal the chain of the person who posted before you, or else dk will give you his Look of Disapproval.  Have fun!

i was a domain squatter

Published by amit on July 14, 2008 under meta

I’ve owned the returncontrol.com domain for nearly a decade.  I bought it one night in 1999 after returning home from a dinner with a couple good friends who also work in technology.  At dinner, we were lamenting the fact that all the good, one-word domain names were gone.  (Yes, in 1999.)  So we started to brainstorm two-word domain names and came up with returncontrol.com, which surprisingly wasn’t yet taken.  So I bought it.  And then didn’t know what to do with it.  Until now.  Welcome.