Going to Press... not

Despite the outcry from devotees and the hoopla that regularly accompanies each issue of the Firbolg Blog's Thick Rythmic Myths newsletter, the latest ish cannot be published.

Government censorship, perhaps? The storming of the executive TRM offices by an angry mob? Nope. The sad fact is that Publish-It, the software of choice in the production of TRM, requires the actual purchase of the product in order to produce a .PDF file.

This has stymied the editorial staff, but only temporarily. It's hoped that this screenshot will enable our faithful readership to access the latest version without anyone giving in to the extortionist demands of some frilly software "manufacturer".

I say...

I came across a list of Do's and Don'ts regarding small business websites, taken from a book by Michelle Howe. The article is written by Brad Finkelstein of Brokeruniverse.com:

Small Business Owners Must Avoid Having a Stupid Website
By Brad Finkelstein

Michelle Howe, who has authored a book for small business owners who want to know how to create powerful website content says that on a website, words are what sell the customer, not pretty pictures or animated graphics. Yet, when it comes to writing website content, most small business owners don't know where to begin...

Monday at the bog

Did people in so-called primitive early human societies work forty hours a week? If not, and in fact, they worked less than that, were they really that primitive?

Ancient Culture Neglected

Okay, I know it. Dead culture is no culture, at least to our culture. Who cares about a bunch of pre-Celtic Irish people who died out three thousand years ago? What does their rich oral tradition matter to anyone?

We want to know about Britney Spears' marriage, goddamn it. At least we can get a papparazzi photo or two to go with this cultural news, and that makes it so much more digestable. Besides, Britney speaks English, or a variant thereof. What the hell did the Fir Bolg speak? It wasn't English. It wasn't even Gaelic. It was pre-all-of-that; a dead language to go with their dead culture.

So why dedicate a blog to them? Good question.

(See Johnsky? Your DM impersonation can, within minutes, be accessible to the world at large. Then the troubles will be 1) naming it effectively, 2) publicizing it and 3) keeping it up.)