Okay. Now I ask you. All of you people out there who have jobs. Do you know how your firm’s name is spelled? Do you know whether or not there is a comma between the firm’s actual name and its corporate designation (e.g., L.L.P., Inc., P.C., Ltd.)?

Some secretaries where I work apparently do not. (There IS NO COMMA in our firm’s name, should you be wondering.) I just finished correcting a motion that had our firm name in four different places. At least I’ll give her credit. She was consistent. Sometimes, that’s not enough, though. If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then consistency is the signpost along the way.

But it’s not like this information is not disseminated throughout the firm. The firm’s name is displayed everywhere in this office. It’s on the letterhead. It’s in brass letters ten inches high on the wall of every one of our reception areas (we have several floors). It’s on the paycheck that I am sure she got today, just like I did. Hell, it’s even on her damn coffee cup!!!

Sheesh. Must find wall. Need to bang head.

Foung in my inbox:

TELEPHONE POLES

There was a Kentucky phone company that was going to hire one team of telephone pole installers, and the boss had to choose between a team of two rednecks and a team of two northern guys. So the boss met with both teams and said: “Here’s what we’ll do. Each team will be installing poles out on the new road for a day. The team that installs the most phone poles gets the job.”

Both teams headed right out. At end of the shift, Pat and Mike, the northern guys, came back and the boss asked them how many they had installed. They said that it was tough going, but they’d put in twelve.

Forty-five minutes later, Bubba and Darrel, the redneck guys came back and they were totally exhausted. The boss asked, “Well, how many poles did you guys install?”

Bubba, the team leader wiped his brow and sighed, “Darrel and me, we got three in.”

The boss gasped, “Three? Those two northern guys put in twelve!”

“Yeah,” said Bubba, “but you should see how much they left stickin’ out of the ground!”

I’m fiddling with my comment box templates right now so beware! Should have it fixed in a jiff.

Yep, I’ve decided to offer webhosting at my web design site. There are a limited number of packages available so grab one while you can. Don’t have a domain? If you’ve got a blog, that’s no problem. You can have a subdomain and a blog URL of YOURNAME.blogpower.net. Lots of great perks are offered with these packages, including MySQL, FTP, CGI access, Fantastico Installer and more!

My ownership of this domain jonielectric.com will expire on August 6, 2003. I have serious doubts about whether I will renew it. I want to concentrate on building my web design business and do other things. But I still want to blog occasionally.

You know, being addicted to domains as I am (I have 13 right now. Don’t ask!), I had snapped up jonimueller.com shortly after purchasing jonielectric.com. I use jonimueller.com, as you may know, to house my growing gallery of wallpaper and other images. There’s plenty of room there.

And in fact, I just redesigned the site, so go take a look. Let me know what you think. What will probably end up happening is that I’ll just create a subdomain at jonimueller.com called blog so that you can reach me by typing blog.jonimueller.com. Pretty straightforward, eh?

Just don’t say you weren’t warned. I’ll probably set up the subdomain in the next few weeks and get this domain pointed there. So once it dies, you should have had plenty of time to adjust your bookmarks.

Goodnight everyone.