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Archive for November, 2007

Why I Love Mandriva

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The upside of my recent computer troubles is that my computer finally got all those critical upgrades that it so desperately needed, not the least of which is an OS upgrade. I have been running Mandriva since it was […]

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Ange’s Contribution

Monday, November 26th, 2007

It was late Wednesday afternoon when it happened. My ‘to-do” list was long, time was short, and my computer unexpectedly died. There was a puff of smoke, and everything went black, and that was the end of it. Honestly, my initial impulse was to throw a tantrum, indeed, a royal hissy fit. But I’m old […]

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Is Copywriting Important to Bloggers?

Monday, November 19th, 2007

I’ll save you the trouble of reading the entire article right now, and just answer the question: yes. Absolutely, without a doubt, copywriting is extremely important to bloggers. Here’s why…
As a blogger, you make your living with words. Your words can make or break your success as a blogger, because that is the only real […]

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The New Google Killer?

Saturday, November 10th, 2007

You may have heard of the “semantic web”… it’s a method of classifying information on the web, usually via human supplied tags, in order to help make pages and posts easier to find. Today found True Knowledge, a UK startup that is creating a smarter search engine.
For example, if you were to ask Google, “how […]

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When Opportunity Knocks

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

It’s been a busy week for me. I have received not one, but two opportunities this week, both of them very attractive. As it stands right now I have accepted one, and am considering the other, which brings me to the subject of this article: how do you go about evaluating an opportunity?
When I say […]

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Cheese of the Month Club

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

Cheese has always been a bit of a Christmas tradition in our family. That, and 12 year old Scotch Whiskey. So I thought that this year, instead of hunting around for that last cheese basket at the back of the store shelf, I would try and find a “Cheese of the Month Club” that I […]

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Online TV with miro

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

I’ve been playing with an online tv viewer called miro. Now to be fair, I honestly thought that watching tv online would subject me to a ton of YouTube style junk, but this could not be further from the truth. Miro is a free, open-source media player that has over 2600 channels available for your […]

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House Planning

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

My wife and I have long dreamed of building a custom home on a nice piece of property in a rural area, so it may come as no surprise to you that we periodically review the latest trends in housing available. Unfortunately, here we sometimes run into a small problem: we like older style houses. […]

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