Buying a copy machine is harder than I thought.
It became a necessary task when Seliger + Associates decamped from Seattle to Tucson and decided to replace most of its aging office equipment. I got tagged with the assignment. This is the first of several posts on my experience.
You’ll end up spending a lot of time [...]
Entries from October 2009
Tools, Grant Writing, and Small Businesses: How to Buy a Digital (Networked) Copy-Printer-Fax-Scan Machine
October 25th, 2009 · 7 Comments
Tags: Advice · Technical · Tools
There’s Something Happening Here, But You Don’t Know What It Is, Do You Mr. Jones?*
October 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I felt like I was living Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man as I read the following news stories this week:
Thousands mob Detroit center in hopes of free cash. The City of Detroit has a $15 million Stimulus Bill grant to “prevent homelessness” and cluelessly announced that people could come to the Downtown Coho [...]
Tags: Advice · Government · Grants · Links · Stimulus
There Are No Grant Writing or Funding “Secrets,” but There Are Dan Browns of the Grant World
October 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments
A recent GWC commenter included a link to a site called “Grant Millionaire,” in which a guy in a video promises that he’ll tell you, for free, secrets that “the world’s top grant gurus don’t want you to know.” Presumably I’m the sort of person he’s describing. Although I like it when people call me [...]
Technical note: GWC upgrade
October 3rd, 2009 · No Comments
A brief technical note: I updated some parts of Wordpress, which is our blogging platform. If you notice anything about GWC that behaves in unexpected ways over the next few weeks, please send me an e-mail or leave a comment in this post.
Tags: Technical