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2008-10-22 10:38:09 Musings of a crunchy, domestic goddess
I've moved my blog. "Again?" you say? I
know, I know, but this time is the last
time! F'real!
I finally got myself my
own domain - crunchydomesticgoddess.com
- and hosting. Woohoo. It was a long
time coming. :)
Here's the new link:
Crunchy Domestic Goddess
Everyone find
a buddy and ...
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2008-10-06 12:08:52 anacronyms
This is a sobering report.
People seem
to think that this current problem is
merely sub-prime mortgages, but it's
not.
It's much more widespread. It
isn't just low-end overpriced housing,
it is endemic. Middle-class people
overreached as well, and as I've said in
the past, that probl...
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2008-10-06 advocacy WordPress.com Tag Feed
Dawn posted this. I feel very
disheartened to know that after 8
continuous years George W Bush and his
wars on terror and the environment (with
the second 4 coming out of nowhere), we
may get even more of the same... or
worse. Talk about the difference between
a pitbull with lipstick a...
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2008-10-06 hospital WordPress.com Tag Feed
Oh man. So much for having a blog
aye...do I ever get the time to write in
it? I wish I did, cos I have so much I
want to write down before I forget! Its
true though, once you become a full time
mum its hard to ever find time for
yourself...my days are spent looking
after Hannah, cook...
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2008-10-05 Law With Grace
Me: We need to talk.Dog: What are you
doing here? I thought you died!Me: Um.
No, I didn't die. Dog: Yes. Yes, you
died. I remember it vividly. I pooped
on your corpse. I'm sure of it! It was
SWEET. Me: No. I'm alive. You didn't
poop on my corpse. I just took you on a
walk t...
, Conversations
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2008-10-05 Plastic Pundit
…..and they do it well, after this
weeks VP debate, SNL of course spoofed
it..and it was as usual hilarious.
Tina Fey killed it again as Sarah Palin,
and there was a special guest appearance
by Queen Latifah as moderator Gwen
Ifel.
, Funny , Politics , Sexy , 2008 , SNL
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2008-10-05 ConverStations
By now, every business has heard
about, considered, and maybe even
dabbled in the blogosphere.
Understanding that business people are
busy running their business, here are
seven tools (and my preferred brand)
that every business should have in their
social media toolbox:
RSS Feed ...
, Blog , Blog , Business , Cool , Social , Social
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2008-10-05 citi WordPress.com Tag Feed
On September 29, 2008, I had one of my
best days ever on this website. In
fact, I had the second highest hit count
ever. The next two days following also
had similarly high hit counts. Why?
Because of an article I wrote back in
April of 2007, titled, “Wachovia
Looking Forward...
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2008-10-05 family-time WordPress.com Tag Feed
As an adoptee and an adoptive mother, I
have a pretty extensive library on
adoption with a focus on interracial
adoption. I'd like to share with you the
books, websites, and other resources
that I find helpful. I'll break this
into sections and give brief
explanations as to why I like ...
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2008-10-04 Web Analytics Demystified
I have had a ton of great feedback about
the white paper Joseph Carrabis and I
wrote on Web Analytics
Demystified’s measure of Visitor
Engagement. Some folks have raised
very good questions and I wanted to
provide some of the answers to those
questions here to better socialize ...
, Engagement
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So are you wondering: where have I been?
Again? View the rest of this article on
Offsprung.com!
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2008-10-04 The Dragonfly Initiative
I've just been house sitting for some
friends who were away interstate, and
looking after their 6 chickens, 3
bunnies and assorted fish. They told me
before they left that "Every time we go
away, at least one animal dies".So my
pessimistic aim was not to kill any on
purpose, but hopefu...
, Recipes , Food , Rurality
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2008-10-03 Down That Dirt Road...
Well you get the picture.We keep losing
internet off and on. All morning I
couldn't even get on to check my
birthday wishes! DOH! But I have a
moment, and don't know how long it might
last.So thanks for the birthday wishes,
the day has gone well so far! I already
got last years birthda...
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2008-10-03 True Gotham
Well, the big 3 have released their
Manhattan Market reports this morning
and here they are:
Prudential
Douglas Elliman
Halstead
Corcoran
Again, we would assume the
same data sets but the results are not
exactly in line. Prices were (past
tense) up from same quarter last...
, Market
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2008-10-03 Marketing Nirvana
Quick Update: Perfect timing. The Boy
Genius Report just outed some pics of
the second version of the Kindle. The
form factor is definitely an improvement
over the original, so those wanting to
buy a Kindle may want to wait for a bit.
Check out the post. (pics here)
Kindle
vs. Kindle 2...
, Technology , iphone , kindle
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2008-10-03 The Blog Council
Here is a roundup of some of the other
interesting items about corporate
blogging and social media that came
across our desks this week.
Do you have
a tip or an interesting link to share?
Send it to Michael E. Rubin, Blog
Council VP, Community.
michael@blogcouncil.org
Jon Hamilton, ...
, blog , AccuQuote , Blog , common , Petro-Canada , Southwest , Walmart
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2008-10-03 Musings of a Dinosaur
I'm delighted to announce the
publication of yet another article of
mine on Medscape (registration required;
sorry):Make Mine PaperTo the surprise of
nary a one of the six regular readers of
this blog, it is yet another screed
against the hordes crying out for the
universal adoption of...
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2008-10-03 Married to the Empire
I started the day with a visit to the
chiropractor. I've been seeing him for
a couple of months for some back/hip
pain I've been experiencing. That
problem is mostly taken care of now, but
lately, my migraines have been bad.
Scary bad. (Early Wednesday morning I
experienced the wor...
, frugality , shopping , gifts , health , migraine
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2008-10-02 Room to Grow
About three weeks ago, the principal at
Rita's new school called a "Student
Study Team". The principal organized for
her teacher, the school psychologist,
the school learning specialist, the
special education teacher and the
district administrator for special
programs to be at the meet...
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2008-10-02 Digital Vicious
"I just show up.": It's the motto I use
to sum up my doctrine of pre-fight
reconnaissance. It's not at all unusual
for me to not know much about my
upcoming fights, but this time... i've
outdone myself. My next fight will be
in China... somewhere close to
Beijing... or maybe in Beij...
, Upcoming , Muay
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2008-10-02 Writer at Work
Okay, so today's title has nothing to do
with this post. I just had to spit it
out. In reality, today's topic is
happiness.Blog-friend Aine has spent
some time discussing personality types
at her Life is Beautiful blog. I've long
been fascinated by personality types,
and I highly rec...
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2008-10-02 TRUTHS FROM RDOWS
Editor’s note: While we
won’t post Fort Carson’s
unnecessarily snarky, PR-machine
generated response to our initial letter
to them, we will post our response to
their response. Suffice it to say there
was no need for the tone they took with
us, and there was certainl...
, Animal , Breed , Civil , Constitutional , property , Military
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It was one of the pioneers in quiet
computing, but Zalman's latest product,
another shrink of a 3+ year old design,
disappoints. The cooling performance is
good, but the CNPS9300 AT doesn't win
any prizes for acoustics or value.
, Cooling
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2008-10-01 Sutter's Mill
This spring at SD West in Santa Clara,
Bjarne and I did a fresh-and-updated S&S
event with lots of new material.
We
don’t usually repeat the same
material, but this time there’s
been such demand that we agreed to do a
repeat… four weeks from today, in
Boston. More in...
, C++ , Software , Talks
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2008-10-01 Life and my boys
Pink is so not my favorite color. But
being October and Breast Cancer
awareness month, I think I can handle a
little pink! As long as it’s only
for a month!
I actually got some very
sad news from my step-mother yesterday.
My sister Julie has been diagnosed with
stage 4 melanoma ...
, Family , Helping , church , life , religion
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2008-09-29 Intel Dump
By Janine Davidson Erin was right in her
prediction that the economic crisis
would squeeze out much of the foreign
policy discussion in Friday night's
presidential debate. And given today's
events, the economy will no doubt
continue to dominate campaign
discussions. But are we headed f...
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2008-09-29 Brad Abrams
Recently my team has been working on the
Managed Extensions Framework (MEF)... I
have gotten a chance to explain the
concept to folks and I think I have
discovered a way to talk about MEF that
folks can easily get. So I thought I'd
spend a little time walking through a
*very* simple M...
, .NET , MEF
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2008-09-29 Startup Chatter by Donna Bogatin
Union Square Ventures to the Web 2.0
'Rescue,' Again!
, BIG
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2008-09-29 Small Business Marketing Blog
Nothing gets people buying products or
programs like a special promotion in
your e-zine. Now, I know right now
you're thinking, "I can't have a sale on
my products or services. That's sooo
cheesy!" Au contraire, mon frere. It's
all how you position it. Here are 13
ideas to consider. Ch...
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