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$5 After 5 Performance at Huntsville Museum of Fine Art, November 20, 2025

Gary Smith / November 20, 2025 / Uncategorized

The County Line Woodwind Ensemble The County Line Woodwind Ensemble consists of Gwen Rakoff (flute), Gary Smith (clarinet), and George Smith (bassoon), all active musicians in the Huntsville area. Gwen is the band director at Journey Middle School in Madison, performs frequently in the area, and has degrees in music education and flute performance. Owner […]

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Business, Technology

Automattic for the people

Gary Smith / December 23, 2024 / Business, Technology / automattic

This content is adapted from a paper I wrote as part of a marketing class for my MBA at the University of North Alabama (UNA) during October and November of 2024. Automattic is best known for the WordPress Content Management System (CMS) and related products such as WooCommerce (an eCommerce add-on for WordPress), along with

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Business, Local

The limits of networking

Gary Smith / September 18, 2024 / Business, Local / networking

I’ve long been a believer in networking. So far, since restarting my business, I’ve spent more money on networking than anything else. The Huntsville Chamber of Commerce and BNI have been the two biggest outlays of time, money, and other resources. Not just the dues, but the mileage, meals expense and again – the time.

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Bible Study, Life

Saturday: Ducks, Bible Study, and Fatigue

Gary Smith / July 13, 2024 / Bible Study, Life / bible, ducks, mba, una, vbs

I’ve been waking up early lately, which is not altogether a bad thing. I’d made an agreement with my son yesterday that assuming I woke up in time we’d both go to a Bible study that one of our friends from church does. It’s at Rooster’s Crow. But I’m getting ahead of myself as usual.

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Current Events

Happy Independence Day – consolidated all previous blogs

Gary Smith / July 4, 2024 / Current Events / blog, independence, worldsoldestblogger

In the past, I had blogs at logosmith.net and askgaryanother.com (not linking because who knows where or what those sites will be if you’re reading them in the future). I have pulled all the posts from askgaryanother into this site via the magic of WordPress import/export functions. For the past hour or so I’ve been

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Bulldust, Business

How to Know When a Situation is Bulldust-adjacent vs. Totally Dipped in It Pt. 2

Gary Smith / July 4, 2024 / Bulldust, Business / bulldust, truth-telling

(I should have called this “Part IV,” since it’s being written several months later, but a few things have happened at work since then) My previous installment on Bulldust-adjacency didn’t accomplish much, except to establish a blinding flash of the obvious about consulting work, which is that far too much of it runs to low-effort

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Bulldust, Business

Management

Gary Smith / July 2, 2024 / Bulldust, Business / bulldust, leadership, management

The mistaken belief that you can control everything that happens, without understanding any of it, by creating more process. Leadership The (sometimes) mistaken belief that you can fundamentally change a situation by digging deeper into what you’re trying to do. I’m starting an MBA at the University of North Alabama. And one of my first

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Life

Program for Huntsville Museum June 13

Gary Smith / June 8, 2024 / Life

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Life

Time Budgeting

Gary Smith / November 4, 2023 / Life / time budgeting

I was recently challenged by my Vantage study group to create a time budget for myself. As soon as you say “budget,” you naturally think “money,” and that’s something else I’m not good at budgeting. By painful experience, I’ve learned to stay within certain limits, and kept more or less on track. But when it

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Business, Technology, WordPress

A blinding flash of the specific

Gary Smith / September 5, 2023 / Business, Technology, WordPress

Having written two blog articles today while watching the Yoast SEO-a-meter rise and fall with my every input, I’m going to give myself a break and just try to write in English. But that never goes that well. Field Service Management Software in Huntsville AL Well, why did I end up talking about that? In

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