Category Archives: portland

Driving in San Jose vs Portland

Sorry I haven’t been able to post lately. I was hoping to get a backlog of posts ready, but my house sold in that period so I had to get everything packed up in Portland, then drive down to San … Continue reading

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Sorry I haven’t posted for 2 weeks…

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was going to publish something by Sunday at midnight each week. I was on track up until we had to do our final push to get our house on the market this … Continue reading

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Happy Father’s Day

Fauxther’s Day I actually thought Father’s Day was last week. I called my Dad and wished him a Happy Father’s Day. Places seemed emptier than usual because (I mistakenly thought) all of the fathers must have been grilling hot dogs … Continue reading

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The Positioning Matrix: A Great Marketing Tool

A friend of ours, James McIntyre, is a B2B technical marketer and one of the stars at McClenahan Bruer Communications in Portland. A while back I asked his advice on what I should do in terms of marketing my product. … Continue reading

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Doing one thing at a time

So I was at Nice Rice to pick up a snack for me and my wife. I like going there because it’s nearby and the owner is there a lot — when the owner is cooking the food, you know … Continue reading

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