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The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
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Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since 1980 and
is recognized globally as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
He's a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera and
Linux Journal and frequently appears
in other publications both online and in print.
Additionally, Dave maintains four weblogs:
The Business Blog at Intuitive.com,
Ask Dave Taylor,
Dave On Film,
and
GoFahterhood.
Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
frequent guest on radio and podcast programs, as well as active member of
his community and busy single father to three children.
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First cover prototype... and a pet peeve
We're just about completely done with the Solaris 9 for Dummies book; all that's left is reviewing the cover art and text and one or two final "are you sure you meant to say this" questions. That's the good news. The bad news is that for some braindead reason, the graphic designers at Wiley have decided that my name is "David Taylor", even though even in contracts I'm Dave.Which is a pet peeve of mine, and in fact one easy measure of how much people are paying attention to what I'm saying versus projecting their own beliefs and thoughts into our discourse: if I introduce myself as Dave, do they immediately say David?
It's rather remarkable how often that occurs, as if I'm just being informal with them and they want to demonstrate that, no, we can have a formal relationship or something. Even at school, I'll say "Hi, I'm Dave Taylor" and someone will not infrequently say "David? I have a question."
So let's get this straight once and for all: the only person who can call me David is my Mom. Got it? :-)
Oh, and here's the very first draft of the Solaris cover, for your viewing pleasure, warts and incorrect name and all:
There will definitely be changes before it's published!
People still use Solaris?! ;)
Posted by: Chris Pirillo on March 26, 2003 9:49 AMoh come on .. can't I call you David?
Posted by: Judi on March 27, 2003 3:44 PM
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