My blog entry for this date will be general observations of some interesting things that have come across my desk in the last few days that I’d like to pass on to you. I hope you’ll read to the end and read “The Principle Of The Garbage Truck.”

Partly because it is so closely related to transcription (or it could be), I’ve been interested in scrapbooking, but also partly because I like that sort of thing, although I’ve never had very much time to devote to it.

If you put together a scrapbook of family interest, one of the best things you can include is either an audio describing the pictures and events, or an audio and a transcription with a description. The latter really works well because it includes all of one’s modalities, hearing, seeing and reading. Read more

I won, I won.  Oh, what a wonderful feeling.

I won the 1st Runner Up prize in the Better Your Best Contest sponsored by Internet Marketing Guru Armand Morin.  Armand is the promoter for the Big Seminar which is the longest running Internet Marketing Seminar in the world.  They have trained more people about Internet Marketing than any other seminar in the world. 

They have a coaching group called AM2 which sponsors the Better Your Best contest.  I entered that contest this year and won the 1st Runner Up prize of $3,000.  I also got a laptop computer.  Yeaaaa. Read more