Monthly Archives: May 2009

HD Video

Here’s my first shot with the HD Video Camera, a Canon Vixia HD30. It was a classic software project – I got the camera, but I had to update to iMovie ’09 so the file format would be recognized, and … Continue reading

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Who is John Wall?

My wife’s friend is a teacher and she has a sign that says “You are special and unique, just like everyone else”. So for the record, I am unique as the only John J. M. Wall III and in fact, … Continue reading

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Death Star Canteen

I saw Eddie Izzard on The Graham Norton show and I couldn’t stop laughing about this for the next hour.  Aside from a few f-bombs it’s safe for work.

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Inside Baseball for Everything

SugarCRM is an open source CRM system, kind of a David to Salesforce.com’s Goliath. It’s been doing very well, but there was a surprise last week as the Co-Founder and CEO stepped down. Check out this post: Never before has … Continue reading

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Get the Full Feed – No Charge!

For my dear diehard fans that originally subscribed to the feed on the old domain, please subscribe to the new feed: http://www.roninmarketeer.com/feed/ For some reason, during the transfer to the new domain, the old feed became a partial feed, the … Continue reading

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Superior Design

I’ve used Samsonite luggage all of my life. My parents gave me an old school suitcase when I was a kid (back when one of their competitors had an ad with a gorilla beating the crap out of a suitcase). … Continue reading

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Live! From New York! It’s Saturday Night!

Those are the best words on TV. Nothing else sets up such a sense of excitement and anticipation. Here’s the live Marketing Over Coffee from the PRSA, it was cool to have a crowd bigger than the staff of Dunks … Continue reading

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Great Depression 2

I’ve had a lot of random thoughts about the current financial crisis, and the role the media in shaping the public opinion.  I get the feeling that the economy will bounce back when people get tired of hearing about bad … Continue reading

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