Archive for February 23rd, 2008

The Common Culinarian on… VMWare?



Have you ever wondered how internet marketing works? Let me break it down for you like this: there are companies that use computer programs to trawl the internets to see if people are mentioning certain things. On this blog, I’ve seen bots that have come here when I mentioned certain things. I never thought much of it, and realized that this is just a web marketers way of seeing what kind of buzz a product is generating. Fair enough.

So, you can imagine my surprise when I got an email this morning from the kindly folks at VMWare for mentioning their product in my post last night. After reading how I decided to use it, they emailed me to see how I liked it and how exactly I planed on using Fusion. It seems they liked how an “average joe” could find use in software that, at one time, used to be the realm of program testers and computer geeks in general.

So, do you know what they did? They posted about it!

Yes, folks, that’s right. CommonCulinarian.com has now been mentioned on Just Baking, The Cook’s Kitchen, Well Fed, and now… VMWare :)

So, if you’re coming here from VMWare, welcome! I promise, I really am just a real person, using real software. If you want to see, you can click on the thumbnail for a larger picture :) This is what it looks like–Quicken 2008, in Unity mode–you can see, it looks almost like a Mac program, except for that pesky Windows styling. Pretty neat, huh? (Okay, I promise, after this I’ll get back to really writing about food :) ).

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