Indeed, the signal metric is important. Queue depths or time from queue insert to removal work fairly well as it directly relates to the tasks performed.
You aren't grumpy, this is just grammatically correct but with extremely poor rhythm. A technically correct writer is not a good or great writer by any means, and it is always useful to know when rules should be broken.
I agree the first sentence is a bit awkward (I would suggest something like "Learn all the important rules and errors, from elementary to advanced"), but what's wrong with the second example?
> Write skilfully, and write powerful and eloquent blog posts, books, and more.
* The repetition of "write" is annoying.
* The use of multiple adjectives to describe a list of things is awkward and wordy.
* "Blog posts" shouldn't be the first item, because it's easy to read "blog" as modifying "books" too.
* "And" is a weird conjunction here. Is writing powerfully and eloquently separate from writing skillfully?
I'd have two separate bullets:
* Write skilfully.
* Create eloquent books, blog posts, and more.
I'd also make the other bullet points start with a verb ("Receive two books in one" etc). I don't think I'd ever be that picky about the writing if it weren't the marketing copy for a book full of writing advice.
As an aside, the "skilfully" spelling is pretty jarring for Americans (or at least for me), but it's apparently correct in the rest of the English-speaking world. TIL.
Perhaps we should take a moment and remember that Grammar can be fun (or so they tried to convince us between Saturday morning cartoons) (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuuZEey_bs)
Writing can be fun, grammar is just one constraint we leverage during writing, and easily bent to meet primeval rhythm requirements. Writing is like composing music, it is written conversation that flows as if you were talking through the paper, with additional constraints to match the medium.
The best way to become good at writing is to do it a lot and receive lots of critique. Style and grammar guides aren't very useful.
If we are talking about technical blog style writing, only a few people write well at all, even out of those that have actual readers; in academic writing, it is even more depressing. Better to develop a critical eye that can recognize good and bad writing.
The writing is optimized for skim reading. The idea is that, whether you choose to read just two words, twenty words, or the whole thing, they'll still get their message across.
Scripts let you do interesting analyses. Dialog, action (non-dialog), and directions all have their own syntax. I once wrote a tool that let you pick movies based on dialog complexity vs. ration action/dialog.
You also have to be careful to use the shooting script. The scripts available online are often many generations removed and quite different from the actually filmed scenes.
To give one example, there's Brad Sucks http://www.bradsucks.net/about/ , who has always distributed his music online for free. Over ten years, he's built a following and been able to switch from having a day job to being mostly a full-time musician.
Right now, it may well work out better for creators who are not as famous as Coelho and C.K.
Exposure is always the biggest problem when starting out, and even when talking about someone like Coehlo, he is certainly going to be read by people who would otherwise never even have heard of him... Which must almost certainly translate into increased sales.
It is less bad because it is opt out (and the submission says 'can use', not 'will'); I won't say it's best. From the summary of the changes:
Section 2.K. Advertising and Endorsements on LinkedIn: We added this section to explain that LinkedIn may use you profile picture and name in social advertising shown to your network on LinkedIn. We also explain that social advertising will contain information from you and your connections’ interaction with the LinkedIn site (such as when you recommend a product or service on a company page, follow a company, etc.). We also point you to the Setting where you can control the use of your profile information in LinkedIn’s social advertising.
I mostly use Google Apps with enom, since it gives me the domain + email & all other google apps goodies "for free".
That said, I want to move a few domains away from GoDaddy but I am a bit confused how to do it the right way. Anyone have a good order-of-events list? I'd hate to lose the domains over a technicality when transferring. [edit: misspellings]
Which is a real pity. It's not a rugged interface that's designed for repeated loads and unloads but a miniaturisation of PCMCIA. The cards are more crushable than SD, the contacts can bend (happened to me...), the holes can get blocked. None of this is ideal when you need to make a quick card change to get that shot in front of you right now. Whereas SD with rolling ball contacts is about as close to indestructible as any physical interface is likely to get.
I understand why they're still making CF cameras, but I wish the effort were going into either optimising SD or producing a rugged, fast, generic replacement.
Thanks for the link. It looks like a nicely made app. Can you tell your friend the feedback form on the website is broken? It redirects to a google spreadsheet which forgets your initial form.
