Anyway, as I was talking to one of my clients, we had a discussion about the costs of putting more content on one page and ways that they might be able to do this without incurring additional expenses. A few times I reported that free websites like YouTube and Hulu are a great way to get certain types of video content on a website without using any of your own bandwidth. I repeat – a few times I reported this during our conversation (I had also e-mailed this information to this client on a few different occasions). One of the clients in the room then said to their partner (like I wasn’t in the room), “He’s supposed to tell us this stuff. How are we supposed to make decisions if he doesn’t tell us this stuff?”

Excuse me?

Some of my website clients don’t realize that I’m not a mind reader and that if they don’t ask me a specific question, then I can’t offer a specific answer. Sure, I can give you a general overview on certain aspects of web design if we’re talking about that topic, but I can’t read your mind and predict what your questions will be! Further, how dare someone reference me and my communication skills (which, trust me, are far and above this client’s skills) like I’m not in the room while I’m sitting right there?! This type of arrogance generally makes vendors walk away while telling the clients, “This isn’t going to work for us. Good luck with your business!” All the while knowing that with an attitude like that, they can’t be too successful.

And so we have another in a long line of annoying occurrences that I’ve experienced with my clients in this website company endeavor. Yippee.

Clearly, if you’ve read this blog over the years, you know that I have a long and storied history with student loans. Over the course of my 7 years as an undergraduate and graduate student I filled out a bunch of these things; my Mother and I filled out my first few FAFSA forms and I filled out the last few. What I remember about filling out the forms was not that it was tedious (filling out any government form is tedious), but rather that the results reports were not good enough.

In other words, you’d put together this FAFSA and then get a report back (mine was from my undergraduate institute) telling you which aid you qualified for based on your responses. The report didn’t speak to potential repayment scenarios or to existing debts under each program; both pieces of information could really help students and their families make better decisions. I’m not sure why this information isn’t included in the report as both the federal government and the college have the information at their fingertips.

The FAFSA should be changed, but this change should be a part of changing the entire student loan process.

This is an interesting post to me because Milloy’s article quotes a British judge who has ruled some of Al Gore’s findings as unscientific. In other words, the judge says there is no science to back up some – not all, but some – of Gore’s claims. There is no discussion of where the judge got his doctorate in environmental science, though…

Later in the article, some legitimate incorrect assertions are detailed and I think those are all known to the public at this point (the wrong date being given for a cigarette advertisement, 2005 NOT being the hottest year on record, there not being a cure for polio, etc). But those are all somewhat moot points (except the one about 2005 not being the hottest year on record – that’s an exaggeration of the truth).

In any event, I fail to see how a judge has the standing to make such decisions. This may be more politics than anything else. Of course, this is all taking place across the pond, so I don’t care about it too much, but I thought some of you folks may find it interesting.

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