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2008-10-22 08:27:28 Affiliate Marketing News
If you are looking for a quick and easy way to generate a lot of ideas for a great number of different blog postings for your websites, this article is for you. I’m going to give you a tried-and-true method that consistently works for me. When you have mastered ...
2008-10-22 06:49:00 delicious blog
It has been a few weeks now since we launched the new Delicious, and we wanted to take a moment to update you on how things are going so far. Infrastructure The most important news is that our new platform has been stable and is meeting our performance goals. In the ...
I’ve been very busy in the online publishing game recently. I haven’t had much of a chance to let you know what’s going on. More details can be found here. I’ve had a pretty successful launch of a new site. I launched on Friday and I’m already averaging about $4 per ...
2008-10-21 06:37:50 guttervomit
The third season of the hugely popular show Heroes kicked off two days ago, much to my chagrin. I was mildly interested in this show back in 2006, mostly because I’m a big comic fan and it seemed like the producers had something better than Mutant X in mind. (See, ...
2008-10-20 11:23:20 Phoresia.org
We are stoked to bring you an interview with Dan Malloy this week. Dan is the first pro surfer we’ve interviewed. In the past two years we’ve focused heavily on surfboard construction so most of our interviews have been with shapers. However, as the “green” movement in surfing ...
2008-10-15 12:34:17 Office-Politics
Dear Office-Politics, I work in an office where there is a double standard. I feel as if I am being “picked on” by the boss (who is old enough to be my mother). It has been going on for a long time; I won’t bore you with past details. My most ...
2008-10-06 12:44:12 Autism Street
"Do not feel you have to listen to anti-vaccine rhetoric just because its coming from the mouth of a poor, poor autism parent." - Kevin Leitch Over at the Age Of Autism anti-vaccination blog, Gina LaVerde writes an open letter to actress and children's health advocate, Amanda Peet. ...
2008-10-06 12:40:28 soho-life.com
Last week on my Virtual Assistant blog I wrote about the support VA communities provide through their forums.  Ironic because only one day later our darling Miriam, aged 24, died whilst her father and I were away in the country.  We rushed back home as soon as we heard. I’m not .....
2008-10-06 11:54:40 Sales Evolution
I’m always intrigued and even amused at times by statistics — particularly when the subject is sales data! We’ve all heard the stories about the validity of statistics, especially those related to the performance of sales professionals. I believe there is good value — and cer...
2008-10-06 11:51:25 Top Headlines
Mumbai police claimed to have cracked terror e-mail case, arresting 15 persons for their alleged involvement in Delhi, Ahmedabad, Surat and Bangalore blasts. Those arrested include Mohammad Azghar (31), Mohammad Shaikh (24) and Asif Bashiruddin Shaikh (22).
2008-10-06 11:44:50 Little Window Shoppe
As a mom of three under five, I’m a HUGE fan of multi-tasking.  So I was delighted to discover that I could shop and make the world a better place at the same time.  How sweet is that?  Which is why my latest online crush is the super chill shop Tiny Revolutionary.  Their “Thi...
2008-10-06 11:15:28 Social Media Mafia
Earlier this week Twitter launched a new design.   The changes are largely cosmetic, but there are some functional changes as well. I’m finding Twitter much easier to use, and some of the features are faster.  If the public thinks the same it could increase in popularity and have e...
iPod, iPhone, iPump, iPort, iV-drip (?)… so no reason to look surprised when you hear about another futuristic diabetes technology company by the name of iSense. This one, a privately held company based in Oregon, has been working on developing a “minimally invasive” ...
2008-10-06 10:18:28 Make A Website
To provide this service to the highest standards, it’s really not that easy, takes time and toil. Not to mention it’s directly dealing with picky customers and anything could go wrong. Most of the customers are reasonable and easy going but still quite a number of them ar...
2008-10-06  Planet Mozilla
Tab Sidebar is probably my favourite extension that I’ve created. It is certainly the most polished, thanks mostly to other people pushing me to make it so. For those that haven’t used it it creates a thumbnail preview of all of your tabs in the sidebar. The thumbnails automaticall...
2008-10-06  Liberal Conspiracy
I’m sure the readers here are all savvy enough to know that rapper/actor/entrepreneur/wannabe Alan Sugar Sean ‘P.Diddy’ Combs ain’t scared of shit. A veteran of the mid-nineties Rap Wars, the onetime Puff Daddy made millions from reminding us that he’s a Bad Boy For Life, and...
, Blog , Feminism , United
2008-10-06  Running Wildly
Sometimes there are moments that simply take your breath away, things that make you realize there is so much more to life than just grinding away at your 9 to 5, things that make you wish you could do more for others…….and I have those moments from time to time as I’m sure you do...
2008-10-06  Economist's View
The McCain health care plan has a reverse Robin Hood effect in that it takes health care insurance away from those who need it the most and gives it to those who are healthiest and most able to afford coverage: Health Care Destruction, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: ...Cons...
, Economics , Health , Politics
2008-10-06  Home Biz Notes
HomeBizNotes.com Phyllis, one of our readers has an email dilemma. Can you help? Here are my quick thoughts, but please feel free to chip in and add your own ideas to help Phyllis out. Phyllis says I get an email from book order co. and they want me to click on their link to order o...
, Email , home-+-biz-+-notes , home-business , reader , yvonne
2008-10-06  prep4md.com
The best avatar creating site I have found so far is "Face Your Manga". They have an amazingly wide variety of options and styles. Try it out. I am sure that you would like it. You can then use your unique avatar on your blog, forums, IM, and so on.Thanks to "mobilephone2003" from YouT...
, YouTube , Video , Blogging , Free , Online , Random , Links
If you were Robert Downey Jr., you would probably be obsessed with touching your own peen too. So it's no surprise that RDJ used to be a chronic tube tugger, but he has sworn off glazing his knuckles after spending so many years of his life having tender and warm moments with himself. ...
, Hotness
I’m really freaked out. I have one of the biggest interviews of my life coming up and I’m way under qualified to host it. It’s on Thursday and it’s about Scalability and Performance of Web Services. Look at who will be on. Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, ...
, technology , Amazon , FriendFeed , iLike , Mosso , Rackspace , scalability , Web , wordpress
With this years upcoming Rails Rumble I thought I'd take this chance to write up some of my tips for taking part in the competition. I'm a new member of the RailsRumble organizational team this year after having competed as a solo team member in last years competition. Wit...
, guide , rumble
Yeah, so yesterday I wrote a really short blog, cos I was so tired, and didnt really write that much on my novel either, cos I was so tired. Yesterday I got up at about 10AM, cos I didnt go to bed til like 3AM, so yeah. Then I went to work @ about 11AM, and came home around 2PM and had...
Category: Social Networking Released: Oct 01, 2008 Price: Free Description:Download the most exciting and convenient chatting tool and start online chatting right now! The Tencent QQ enables you to send messages to mobile phone users through its tremendously efficient platform. Launc...
, New
2008-10-06  Novel Journey
A past winner of Associated Press awards for her journalism, Christa Parrish now teaches literature and writing to high school students, is a homeschool mom, and lives near Saratoga Springs , New York . Visit www.christaparrish.comTell us about your latest project. My first novel, Home...
Shared by Robert Scoble Mark lives a life most of us would love to have. Of course he didn't explain how HE got rich. He sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for billions. That requires something far beyond discipline: luck. Some people DO win the lottery! But, I find that following people w...
(1 comment - 8 views)Hi thought I would draw extra attention to this video! Although I’m sure most of you know the general content of it, it’s a really good explanation of money and worth promoting. Especially at this point in time . http://www.videosift.com/video/Corrupt-B ...
, Commercial , Dark , Documentaries , Politics , Worldaffairs
It sounds like Miley Cyrus’ Sweet 16 birthday bash, which was held at Disneyland, was a big success. Her actual birth date isn’t until November 23rd, so she celebrated it a little early. Miley performed for about 5,000 fans, who each paid $250 to attend the party. Billy Ray Cyru...
Stuttgart. Jelena Jankovic, die am Montag wieder an der Spitze der Weltrangliste steht, war auch beim Porsche-Tennis-Grand-Prix die Nummer 1. In der ausverkauften Porsche-Arena gewann die Favoritin das Finale des Traditionsturniers gegen die Russin Nadia Petrova, die Siegerin von 200...
, Porsche , Stuttgart , Tennis , Porsche
2008-10-06  Too Much Nick
I asked: I want to write a chase scene using a Muni bus, specifically a trolleybus (like the ones on routes 14 and 49) connected to overhead wires, like these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus I want to build tension in a bus chase by giving the driver limited time before ...
2008-10-06  Eye on Britain
The first snow of the year... and it's only October Any hope of a mild winter were dashed today when winter's first snow made an early appearance. It seems amazing that only a week ago, the sun was out and there was even optimistic talk of a dry season. But temperatures plunged to...
2008-10-06  Social Media Today
I have a confession: I am f*cking sick of the “What’s the ROI of web 2.0 or social media” debate. Not that I don’t think we shouldn’t talk about it - we should - but I’m sick of convincing every...
, Social , Blogging , Blogs , Web , Marketing , Media , Advertising , Web
2008-10-06  Online Tech Tips
Do you have a WiFi digital photo frame at home? Does someone in your family have one? Do you also have a ton of photos stored online in Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, etc? Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a service whereby you could display those pictures on ANY WiFi enabled digital photo...
, Cool
Sheila Dixit, Chief Minister of Delhi, feels that a woman driving home in her car late at night in India’s capital is being adventurous. In other words, she’s asking to be killed. Women shouldn’t travel at night. Better still, they should probably never leave home at all. After m...
2008-10-06  PrawfsBlawg
I’m reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (I know it’s been out for a while – I’m behind), and I had a thought about the current credit crisis caused by the housing downturn. Is the financial crisis a “black swan”? Taleb defines a “black swan” as follows:“...
, Current
The 41 km road from the airport in Entebbe to Kampala is an endlessly spreading slum, the road choked with traffic and with boda-bodas and minibuses that serve as public transportation and which obey a vague set of driving rules. The banks of the road are littered with broken-down ve...
, BRAC , KF6 , Uganda , bill , BRAC , KF6
7am:  I roll out of bed and stumble to the bathroom with my contact lenses completely stuck to my eye balls.  I have a new appreciation of how a blind person navigates his morning.  The husband apparently got a late night wild hair and decided to shave off all of his.  Brushing you...
2008-10-06  Fred Wilson Dot VC
iPhone 3G For Sale at FISTFULAYEN: I guess I’m not the only person who hated the iPhone
There are some who have a great influence in ones life. The Influence is such that they change the path of ur life , Since my childhood days and till date i have met people who are really remarkable and have influenced me a lot. All of them are also my very good friends till now. But I...
2008-10-06  Whole Food And More
Food Cycling aka Extreme Regime (ER) The ProgramWhat's different about this? It's based on new research showing that calorie counting and doing exercise don't help most people lose weight. The Surgeon General's Report notwithsanding.What do we get to eat? No rabbit food required. No ex...
, dr. , Extreme , Dr.
The 41 km road from the airport in Entebbe to Kampala is an endlessly spreading slum, the road choked with traffic and with boda-bodas and minibuses that serve as public transportation and which obey a vague set of driving rules. The banks of the road are littered with broken-down ve...
Okay, okay, so I’m back for a minute. I know it's been a while, so mea culpa.I’ve been doing a lot of thinking over the past few days about clutter. This is due to the fact that our flat currently looks like a testing ground for a new and advanced brand of demolition equipment.It a...
This week is Customer Service Week, and I have 2 presentations I’ll be doing this week; one in person at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah (where I’m writing this post at the downtown Ogden Marriot) and for HDI via webinar (which you can sign up for free at HDI’s website. ...
, Customer
I wish I had a stock certificate for every time I’ve heard a teacher exclaim “I’m not very political, but…” Or maybe I’d rather have a dollar, cash money in the cookie jar, given the times—but the point stands: teachers,...
, Education , Teacher , The
A post on ProBlogger describes three methods you can try that may help you get your site featured on one of the major news sites. Don’t get excited, by featured they are not talking about having a nice article written about your blog, they are however talking about getting a link...
, Blog , blog , blog , cnn , news , wall
2008-10-05  RAZORED ZEN
I’ve never written about TV. Maybe it's time. My family was one of the first in our neck of the Arkansas woods to get color TV. We watched it a couple of hours each night. In those days, parents decided on the channel, though we only had three to choose from. We watched the news...
, TV
If you’re reading this, it’s probably safe to assume that you think SL is a pretty cool medium…either that or you prefer sitting around the house in your knickers (I’m the latter.) And to make a cool medium even cooler, you can play SL and still not put on pants. I mean, why-oh...
2008-10-05  Half-Fast
Weekend Splits is my recap of things that I found interesting or humorous over the past week. If you have a submission for the weekend splits, e-mail me. El Overcompensato?Huge truck? Check. Huge fake balls hanging down from trailer hitch? Check. Personalized plates with overly masculi...
, weekend
When I was in college, I took a course on Johannine literature. In case you’re not familiar with the term, Johannine literature concerns itself with the Gospel of John; 1, 2, 3, John and the Book of Revelations. The course was taught by the priest who chaired the religious studies de...
2008-10-05  d r i f t g l a s s
In which the Mouse Circus takes another step down that long, shiny hellroad to full-on Hollywood SquaredomBecause if two heads good, well then, by golly,four heads better!On Fox News Sunday Chris Wallace excitingly repeats the phrase “Master Strategist, Karl Rove” 100 times. I ass...
, Sunday
2008-10-05  Blog d'Elisson
The Mistress and Gilad in front of “Tanks A Lot,” the Georgia Aquarium’s largest single exhibit.Last week we went to the Georgia Aquarium with the in-laws, the Mistress of Sarcasm, and Gilad.While the main attraction was the Titanic Aquatic exhibition, I also like to go look at ...
, Miscellaneous
As I missed out on getting my hands on a Banksy, I’ve been looking around for an alternative. My buddy from Scottsdale, Evan Hartstein, pointed me in the direction of Faile – a New York Art Collective – who he knows pretty well and who have been taking the art world by storm rec...
, Other , Photos
2008-10-05  Smiles & Trials
My husband and I are following the election very closely. Despite our busy life with our awesome kids, we manage to keep our lines of communication open and flowing freely. Politics is often a source of discussion with us outside of an election so you better believe with a new pres...
, politics
2008-10-05  New to TV
After Sookie (Anna Paquin) sees Bill’s (Stephen Moyer) less genteel side (looks like he kills someone), she chooses to spend time with a mortal man — Sam (Sam Trammell) — in the “Sparks Fly Out” episode of HBO’s new vampire thriller True Blood on Sunday, October 5 at 8 p...
, Drama , HBO , New , Video
"And then what?by Laura Hollis"Most people can remember when they read something that was life-changing; an epiphany or “aha!” moment. One such moment for me was the first time I read Thomas Sowell."Dr. Sowell, who is one of the greatest minds of our time, has written a number of b...
, NOBAMA , politics
This post is lovingly dedicated to my dear friend and faithful follower, Black Betty. While I know this post lacks the colorful commentary of your blog, I think you will appreciate the message.So, if you read my previous post, you know that I had a crummy morning at church. So on our w...
This update will be all over the place...1. We’ve had a really nice weekend. It’s beautiful here so we spent time outside with Nicholas at the park and playing at home. Saturday we went to Toy’s Я Us and did a little Christmas shopping with Nicholas. That was tons of fun –...
, Nicholas , attachment
Friday morning, I woke up, I knew something wasn't right. Saturday morning, I woke up spotting. Called the nurse. She said it could be implantation bleeding. Nope, Sunday full force AF. No baby for us.Angel and I had a huge horrible argument. I was being a big fat jerk. I guess I wante...
I keep getting people I have no idea who they are adding me to Windows Live Messenger. More so these past few weeks than in the entire year. I’m not sure where they are getting my Windows Live ID and adding me. I’ve been trying to find places where perhaps my Windows Live ID is bei...
, Blog
2008-10-05  Not Enough Mud
Today, I am jetlagged: befuddled, confused, pie-eyed and obfuscated.I flew overnight, spending 11 hours sitting next to a peroxide germ factory coughing and spluttering her way through 8 time zones, not ONCE covering her nose as she did so. Thanks honey. I’m blaming my current tickly...
The meals were yummy and some were changed around with dh being gone one night and other things going on. We did have and loved Cheesy Turkey Stromboli from Heavenly Homemakers, check out our Saturday morning - Honey Wheat Muffins and Homemade Butter from Fill Em Up Cookbook, Shepherd...
, menu , recipes
2008-10-05  Daring Young Mom
I’ve been working hard to simplify my life lately, but not too hard because that could complicate things, but just hard enough. I’ve taken some smart steps like saying no to things I didn’t want to do and getting rid of clutter and then some not-so-smart steps like ignoring my ...
, Dare , aspirations
2008-10-05  Bad Penguin
My mom volunteers at a farmer’s market helping to do…stuff of one sort or another, I guess. I never really thought about what exactly she does. I go by the market periodically, but not every weekend. This weekend, however, they had Spike from Top Chef coming to give a culinary d...
, Recipes
Raizel Liebler, Political Economy and Intellectual Property of User-Created Content She’s concerned with the way creators lose ownership and control, particularly of user-generated content. Host companies like YouTube are worth a lot of money. People who create the content are...
, patents , copyright , peer , conferences
2008-10-05  Daystar Shine On Me
The Sunday is going to an end, so now at this time while I have nothing to do I got a chance to update my blog. Few days ago, I was busy preparing about for christening of my son.Moreover, yesterday we attended the b-day little celebration of my friend. I had a pleasure to meet my good...
, personal , lifestyle , christening , baby
The Education Carnival is up for your reading pleasure over at Matthew Needleman’s site….Creating Lifelong Learners while the History Carnival made its appearance over at American Presidents. I’m a bit late with these links….Take pity on a recooping woman. :)Last week my good ...
, history , Blogging , education , Right , Beginning
Are you a woman with a little bit of extra “wiggle” under her ams? Or do your arms just annoy you, and you want to make them look tighter and more toned? Don’t worry– I’m going to share my favorite move! Curls are often touted as the best arm-thinning and toning exercise out ...
2008-10-05  FICTIONAL MUSINGS
"Happy Halloween"Short Fiction - Halloweenby Rod DrakeIt’s Halloween and a miserable, freezing cold rain is pounding down on me as I wait in the empty street. I’ve got one silver bullet left in my gun, and my shoulder’s bleeding pretty badly from the swipe I received earlier. C...
, Halloween , Rod
I keep getting people I have no idea who they are adding me to Windows Live Messenger. More so these past few weeks than in the entire year. I’m not sure where they are getting my Windows Live ID and adding me. I’ve been trying to find places where perhaps my Windows Live ID is bei...
, Blog
2008-10-05  The Medical Quack
Below we have 2 different physicians, one who embraces technology so much to the fact that she has become an technology evangelist to help and convince other physicians to “buy in”, and she works as an emergency ER physician too. The second physician vowed to keep the paper trail ...
, Other , Technology , My , Medically , Tablet , Windows
I know site flipping has become a hot trend and if you’re going to get into it, you’re going to need to figure out how to monetize a site properly. Most buyers base how much they’re going to spend by the site’s monthly revenue and of course, the potential of the site. I haven...
, Make , Site
2008-10-05  Island Med Student
I don’t feel like writing right now, so please accept this photo instead of me and my new friend Carlos outside of a Mexican restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Details to follow! Share This
, Daily , Groovin , NYC
Donna Maria Cole Johnson writes a terrific blog called the Indie Business Blog, and never runs out of ideas for what to write. She says, "...it’s not about me. It’s about my audience, my listeners. I love them and I am here to serve them. I think they sense that and it keeps them ...
, Content , On , Online , client , content
2008-10-05  Turnbow Puzzle
This song pertains to what ever we're waiting for in life. For us of course, it's a child. It's from the movie Fireproof by John Waller. Enjoy!While I’m WaitingPsalm 5:3, 27:14, 33:20, 37:7, 38:15, 40:1, Isaiah 30:18, Lamentations 3:24John Waller"The explanation for this song is si...
, adoption
White Night It’s 7:21pm Saturday night and I’m standing in front of an enormous paint-by-numbers. I stare at it, wondering what it will turn out to be and how long that process will take. At first it seems a millennium, then as people, the most enthusiastic of which are children...
The Cubs, true to form, got swept out of the playoffs again. To the LA Dodgers: you're welcome. I suppose I'm lucky this year. Living in Chicago, it was impossible not to notice the buzz around the Cubs, and many times I was tempted to get on the bandwagon and pour my heart into the...
, Chicago , sports
2008-10-05  Ink In My Coffee
Sunday, October 5, 2008 Waxing Moon Neptune Retrograde Mercury Retrograde Rainy and cold Oh, dear. I had to stop working on the western for a bit. It seems the character I’d decided was the villain of the piece, Josiah, has decided to be the hero. Which means I have to toss out Ch...
, Uncategorized , big , National , READER , western , writing
By Sandy Powers It was the summer of 2005 when my diagnostic mammogram revealed a growth in the back of my breast. The biopsy confirmed it was cancer. My best option was to have a mastectomy. The day before surgery, my surgeon called to tell me my pre-opt tests came back. "Your liver e...
, breast , sandy
ViaNY Times Who You Callin’ a Maverick? By JOHN SCHWARTZThere’s that word again: maverick. In Thursday’s vice-presidential debate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, the Republican candidate, used it to describe herself and her running mate, Senator John McCain, no fewer than six times,...
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...
Copyright 2008 Alan Weiss. Visit the original article at http://www.contrarianconsulting.com/down -under/.It’s existential to travel to Australia, where the time, day, and season are all different upon touchdown. It takes about nine months to acclimate, which means you might as wel...
, Peregrinations
I have an announcement to make and I’m very excited about it! I’ve decided to broadcast an Internet radio show and I’ll be interviewing baby boomer women over fifty who are moving in new directions, living life to the fullest, and making the most of their older years. We boomers...
Buzz up! RSS Feed Mental Health Humor: Blog Get Well Post for electricmousie Hi every one, I’m going to go off the beat and path for a second and turn the blog post into a way to help one of our most loyal readers… I’m sure you seen more than a few of Elect...
, Bipolar , Depression , Mental , Special , bipoar , bipolar , cancer , canser , chato , Chato , depression , diagnosed , ecard-e-card , Electricmousie , get , get , House , mental
2008-10-05  GAB
I've done two things to my blog.1) I've changed the color to pink because October is Breast Cancer awareness month.2) I've dropped a lot of my side information...such as who visits, who I visit, etc. etc. I will put them back at some later date and time. But I'm gonna pick and choose w...
2008-10-05  SandwichINK.com
A picture is worth a thousand words – but what do you do with a thousand pictures? One love we in the Sandwich Generation often share is that of photos of our beloveds. Thanks to the gifts of all of my talented children, I am truly blessed with thousandS – yup, you read that S corr...
, Frugal , Awanas , caregiver , caregiving , Creative , GIMP , GIMP , GIMP , grandchildren , grandkids , Grandparents , Grokking , photographs , photos , photoshop , Sandwich , Scribd
2008-10-05  Vh1 Blog
Hoopz takes the cash! Bizarrely, staying loyal and steering clear of drama on reality TV yielded a huge reward — how often does that happen? Below, VH1’s 2 for 2 reality champ talks about what she’s going to do with the $250,000, Real’s proposal, sexual tensi...
, ROOT , Celebreality , Television
2008-10-05  Empty Nesting
I went to the new Acu.punct.ure consultation appointment yesterday, I really liked this lady (call her S), not necessarily any more than the last (call her L) other than S is $35 dollars cheaper than L.The clinic is more of a cold feel - it's a chiropractic office - with bright white ...
Barnsley, Breeden PacificCoastNews.com From what we have seen the last few episodes of The Hills, Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad seemed to have patched things up a little bit when it comes to the ever growing bridge in their friendship. Though recent events seem to indicate oth...
, Audrina , Celebrities , Lauren , The
In his essay, Politics and the English Language , George Orwell shared a list of five Writing Tips. Rule #4 is Never use the passive where you can use the active. This may be the single most valuable tip for improving your writing that you’ll every hear. A search for “passive tens...
, Writer's , clear
Here's today's homily. The Gospel is Matthew 21:33-46.*I’ve talked here before about my meandering conversion process, which took decades. My decision to start attending church, though, was made much more quickly, and I made it for one very specific reason: my husband and I had just...
, preaching , church , current , animals
I’m back boys and girls. I can’t believe it’s been a month since my last post. Well, actually I can. The last three weeks have been insane. The first two were incredibly shitty, even as bad weeks go (especially as bad weeks go), but the worst part was that it was (mostly) my ...
, On , On
Have you ever heard the saying “The money is in the LIST”? I’m sure you have heard it a thousand times. I’m sure you are also aware that all the well known Internet Marketers make the majority of their online income through their email lists and through other Internet ...
, Email , big , build , building , how , how , secrets , building , how
2008-10-04  moosh in indy.
I wrote this guest post for Angella over at Dutch Blitz back in February. Love her. I think it’s this post comes up for air yet again on this cozy fall day in October. ************* Angella is generally around on Google Chat when trolls come knocking at my door and she does a lo...
, Too
2008-10-04  JoeTrippi.com
First of all I want to say that there is another book out there that I urge people to read. Markos Moulitsas Zuniga’s Taking On The System. Markos and Jerome Armstrong along with so many others were there at the beginning, and Markos’ book is a must read if you want to un...
, Trippi , Howard , Jerome , Markos , Obama , Taking , The
We finally had to turn the heating on yesterday, which I’m none too proud of, but it’s a fact. There comes a point where sitting in your own living room with 2 jumpers on - and still having cold feet motivates the easy option of flicking the switch. This made me think about how the...
In this post Kim Roach from BuzzBlogger shares three techniques for getting featured on mainstream media news sites. Did you know that you can get your site featured on major news sites like CNN, CNET, Newsweek, USA Today, and even the Wall Street Journal. It’s one of the best kept s...
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Today's New York Times Magazine portrays venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins and the new green Silicon Valley. They are betting hundreds of millions of dollars that now is the time for clean energy:[T]he firm’s green-tech investments didn’t seem terribly risky to [Kleiner part...
, Climate , Contributors , Energy
2008-10-04  FollowSteph.com
This post is an exert from my ebook How to Generate Traffic for Your Website: To give you a quick idea of the scale of blogging, here are some more quick metrics according to Technorati.com (April 2007): There are 70 million blogs There are about 120,000 new blogs each day, or 1.4 ne...
, Blogging , Business , ISV , Marketing
2008-10-04  Running Jayhawk
So we're one week out from race day. And I had a wonderful run with friends from the Team this morning. Covered a chunk over 5 miles in an hour. Not fast, but comfortable and relaxed for me. Overall, I just felt really good about it. And about my training, even though it's been lacklus...
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2008-10-04  BayCityWalker
There just happened to be an Internet station located inside the UCSF main cafeteria where I was able to smuggle this brief message out. Obviously I’m not happy about missing the Portland Marathon and Im even more unhappy about being taken prisoner again, but it was bound to ha...
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From 2003 up until 2007, I was lucky enough to have "movie reviewer" as my job description. As such, I've built up a *lot* of reviews for just about every movie that came out during those years, as well as reviews of classic movies. So, I give you my very first regular feature: The Ba...
2008-10-04  From The Cab
The Australian ‘Holocaust Denier’ Gerald Toben has recently been arrested in Britain and faces extradition to Germany (ironically, the country of his birth) where he could be jailed for up to 5 years for publishing anti-Semitic material on his website Adelaide Institute.Holocaust d...
, Freedom , Gerald , David , Holocaust , Adelaide , Europe , Israel
This time designer Chris Dimino’s made something really strange, and unusual, and I’m sure that his creation will attract some attention. As you can see from this picture Chris Dimino’s decided to change the old shower with this new strange guy in a gas mask coming out of th...
2008-10-04  A View On My Life
The turning of the calendar this month marked a sad and frustrating milestone for us. Four years. Four years of trying to have a baby. Four years of heartbreak, failure, frustration and pain. Four years of struggling to even conceive one child. Four years of fertility drugs, invasive p...
2008-10-04  Our life,
Ok so, i just want to continue to ask yall for those prayers. i will know something for sure by the end of this coming week! I am just praying that it goes, And I know whatever is suppose to happen will happen but THIS just seems so right in every aspect!As for this weekend, it has bee...
2008-10-04  instapinch.com
Reader Larry, in the comments in the post just before this one, says he’ll drop me off his reading list if I don’t get a new post up that will drop that ugly piece of toad offal Sarah Bernhard image off the opening screen! I’m on the laptop with a tenuous wireless con...
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2008-10-04  The Movie Blog
Making any sort of “Top 10″ list is always a tricky and dangerous thing. As I always say, all film is subjective, and that means no one on the planet will 100% agree with my list (and believe it or not, you’ll have a hard time finding people who 100% agree with your ...
, Features , Top
2008-10-04  GigaOM Network
One of the biggest stories of September was the rise and abrupt fall of the Jerry Seinfeld/Bill Gates Microsoft campaign — while the controversial spots garnered big media attention, the mixed response led the software giant to abandon the concept, replacing it with a star-studde...
2008-10-04  AfterTheDotNet
Some of the interesting services I came across on the web How Chameleon works I t is a tool for photo collage. The best feature is the ability to move a part of a photograph to another photograph without worrying about adjusting the background of the part you imported into the second p...
, web , download , font , free , image , photo , photoshop
2008-10-04  Mental Nurse
Congratulations to Yorkie, who wins this week’s caption competition with “Bonus course available: A med free approach to restraints. Developing the Vulcan neck pinch.” Time now for This Week in Mentalists. Aethelred the Unread is unnerved by reading about himself in ...
, Passing , this
This is a continuation of the series that began with Chapter 11: To File or Not to File Convinced that we could get all our creditors’ cooperation without formally filing for protection under Chapter 11, we proceeded nonetheless to get experienced professionals on board. The wor...
, Venture , bankruptcy , chapter , lattice
2008-10-04  Oh me, Oh my
I know it’s a few days late, but I wanted to say it anyway.Right now I’m sitting on my bed, warm and cozy in a hoodie, hiding my cold feet under the blankets. The day outside is gray and blustery, the apartment smells like pumpkin candles and it’s almost impossible to deny the fa...
I was checking out my sitemeter and usually research what brings people to my site. One of the most common entries is "Are you happy being a NP?"Well...let me think about it for a minute...Sure am!! I love my job! I can't say enough about it. It is one of the greatest things that has E...
There’s a lot of great discussion from the window arranging post. This really shows how important these details are to people. Being able to arrange how apps are shown on screen is key for productivity because it impacts almost every task. It’s also very personal – people want...
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2008-10-04  24/7 MOMS
There are only 6 days left until the MOMS arrive at the first 24/7 MOMS conference, and the FUN begins.I can hardly wait to hear Julie Barnhill Inspire me as a MOM, to Give-a-way all the GREAT Mom Favorite stuff, taste the incredible SWEETS at the buffet and meet all my new mom friends...
This blog will rarely be the place for breaking news, but there are two related pieces of information I want to ensure you know about at the risk of repeating news that has been blogged by others. First, Shawn Burke’s team has announced their intention to release the following ne...
, Tools , Recommended , Digging , Custom , RC0
2008-10-04  IzzyMom
As recently noted in this post, my daughter is now eight and the years are flying by faster than I ever could have imagined. Seriously — as soon as the drudgery of diaper changing is behind you, time speeds up. There’s just something about not dealing with another perso...
, Daily , judy , the
In the past two weeks, I've had lots of people ask me how I think the financial meltdown will affect things. I don't have a crystal ball, but I thought it might be interesting to look back to the tech crash in 2000/2001. I remember one of our executive staff meetings in particular, ...
, Management
2008-10-04  iMessengr.com
Pingbox allows you yo chat privately with visitors on your social network profiles, blog, or website through Yahoo! Messenger. IMs between you and each Pingbox visitor are private. Only you and person you are chatting with can see the IMs, even if there are multiple visitors viewing yo...
, IM , Yahoo
2008-10-04  Violent Acres
I’ve listened to the political pundits talk and I’ve watched the news casts. I’ve read your blogs and I’ve looked at your bar graphs. I watched the debates and I researched the issues. But I still haven’t heard a single reputable source state the obvious: Sarah Palin is an ev...
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2008-10-04  BabeofBusiness.com
There comes a time in every entrepreneur’s journey when they realize they have been around the block long enough to know what to do and what not to do in most situations. The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky and Bo Burlingham, ...
, Business , What's , Bo , entrepre , Inc , Inc. , Norm , The
A radiant Angelina Jolie, accompanied by Brad Pitt, made her first red carpet appearance since welcoming twins Knox and Vivienne, at Saturday's Changeling premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City. The secret to looking so good just five-months after giving birth? "A good dres...
, Angelina , Brad , News
2008-10-04  Sustainablog
I’m reading a book about wood. The title is “Wood,” by Harvey Green. It’s written a bit like the slightly more popular and accessible books by a different author titled “Salt” and “Cod” by Mark Kurlansky. But “Wood” is about our use of wood in home construction, fur...
, Home , Lifestyle , Nature , furniture , home , industrial , product , wood
2008-10-04  Mom4Life
It is interesting how something you greatly look forward to can, when finally achieved, turn out to be so different from what you initially envisioned. Remember how anxious I was to retire my maternity jeans? Do you recall how I attempted the ridiculous feat of trying to squeeze a ...
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2008-10-03  Leaving the Law
Yes, I’m back. I didn’t really go away, but let’s just say that the intermission was longer than anticipated. One of my favorite characters lately is Thursday Next, from the Next Octology series by Jasper Fforde. (Several reviewers call the series “Harry Potter ...
, Friday , Alvey , child , Harry , Jasper , mistaken , Thursday
2008-10-03  
*** Oct. 10-12, 2008. SPANKING WEEKEND IN THE MOUNTAINS with Ms. Margaret and Friends. Near Allentown, PA. The weekend is for lovers of playful and discipline adult spanking. Lots of privacy and no one else is on the resort but us. For those who choose, classes at St. Margaret’s...
, Uncategorized , Allentown , erotic , erotica , Margaret , Poconos , Rachel , rkb , SCONY , spanking , St. , writing
2008-10-03  Whole Story
Each of our six of our finalists for the Food Blogger Budget Recipe Challenge will be featured in a blog post here. Read about them and check out their featured recipe. By posting a comment on their recipe page, you help determine the winner in our Challenge AND you’ll be entered...
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2008-10-03  ACC BasketBlog
The BEST ACC Football Coverage!!!!Getting your mind right:The Weekend Smoke from the Stogie Guys: Stogie Reviews: Bolivar Royal Corona (Cuban)Downs and distance: "Wide right, anyone? I miss the Hurricanes. No, not the tropical storms that wreak havoc with people's lives. I miss the Mia...
Inbound Marketing Summit has just released a fully produced video of my r u ready? presentation. Aside from making it painfully clear that I blinked and said 'ummmm' way too many times -- and convincing me that I really need to do something about my double chin -- it does a good job o...
, Future , Innovation , Marketing , New , r , Social , Speaking , Trends , Virtual , Web , Workplace , change , futurist , greg , ims08 , inbound , innovation , keynote , r , social , twitter , verdino , virtual , web , workplace
2008-10-03  SMR » Search
Toronto – A recent study conducted by Psoriasis Support Canada, an online support program for individuals with psoriasis, produced some startling insights into the psychological impact that moderate-to-severe psoriasis has on Canadian sufferers. Results of the Quality of Life Assess...
2008-10-03  WWdN: In Exile
Any geek can tell you what superpower they'd want to have. We rarely have to think about it, because most of us gave the question a lot of time and careful consideration when we weren't talking to girls during our youth. Earlier tonight, the subject came up in an IM conversation with m...
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2008-10-03  Indi's Human
I don’t know what to say.And I don’t say that very often.Because even if I don’t know what to say, it rarely stops me from saying something. And yet lately I can’t seem to get my feet under me again.I remember as a kid, being near the shore of a lake and doing the crab walk. ...
2008-10-03  Deep Thinker
The music of Blackmore’s Night helps me escape into another world, a world that my soul recognizes. A world far removed from all the noise and stress of 21st-century living. It’s the type of music that just carries me away to some fairytale land and sets my soul free. It’s my esc...
, novel , past , Blackmore's , vampire , music , Medieval , history , Renaissance
2008-10-03  Dylan, Etc
Farm Aid’s first appearance in New England was met with perfect conditions for a festival about the outdoors, sunny but cool, making the generally shitty Comcast Center (formerly Tweeter) feel a little more down-home. Local farmers dotted the walkways and open spaces, teaching peopl...
2008-10-03  A Toast to Shoes
In some femlit something or other I’m too lazy to source now, I remember reading of women who turn into the men they wish they had married.Well, in some twisted way, I think I just somehow turned into the man I hated dating. This revelation struck me this morning during a staff meeti...
2008-10-03  Web Scout
HBOlab's "Hooking Up," the college campus comedy featuring a raft of YouTube stars, including sXe Phil DeFranco and Jessica Rose of lonelygirl15 fame, debuted Thursday (I wrote a preview here). On its second day on YouTube, it's gotten more than 450,000 views. It also has its own sit...
2008-10-03  Zen Habits
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Nonconformity, the author of the Unconventional Guide to Discount Airfare. I’m writing from my hotel balcony in Giza City, Egypt – just outside Cairo, and the site of the historic Pyramids. The sun is comin...
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2008-10-03  The Shark
[brian lauter] If you’re like me, you’ve spent a lot of time watching YouTube clips of Joe Biden and Sarah Palin displaying their unique brands of stupid. If you’re really like me you were eagerly anticipating yesterday’s VP debate. If you’re exactly like me you had Securit...
, in , law , law , law , oh , politics
2008-10-03  Component Factory
Did you realise that Microsoft are releasing a new operating system in just four weeks that is currently being called Windows Cloud? No, me neither. Steve Ballmer made the announcement at a conference in London on Wednesday. Luckily ‘Cloud’ is just the project name as it g...
, .NET , amazon , cloud , oracle
2008-10-03  Component Factory
Did you realise that Microsoft are releasing a new operating system in just four weeks that is currently being called Windows Cloud? No, me neither. Steve Ballmer made the announcement at a conference in London on Wednesday. Luckily ‘Cloud’ is just the project name as it g...
, .NET , amazon , cloud , oracle
This picture was published in a nursing school yearbook in 1964 B.C. The B.C. stands for “Before Computers.” Check out the high tech electric typewriter. I remember practicing my typing skills when I was a nursing student because nurses acted as the unit stenographers. We wo...
, Uncategorized
2008-10-03  Healthy Living
Fighting as foreplay? Surprise! Make-up sex can actually be good for your relationship. Q: Make-up sex is some of the best action my guy and I have. But could it be bad for our relationship? A: Make-up sex is normal—and generally healthy, too. Not only can it be madly pas­sionate, ...
, Sex , health , jennifer , pregnancy , sex
Last week I was in Boston to moderate a panel at the MIT Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference -- one of those tech shindigs so expensive I can only attend as hired help. My panel was on parallel computing and it produced this column and another I'll file early next wee...
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2008-10-03  Design Happens
I’m a self-proclaimed modernist and I love furniture and art that are unusual and unexpected. Honestly, I like to see the looks of amazement on the faces of my guests when they see something I’ve designed or purchased (my living room fireplace is filled with broken glass from whi...
, Art
Music Playlist at MixPod.comI know that most of you feel the same way I do about November 4th. For those of you who don't, please read this letter written by Silanchi's dad. Silanchi is the little pistol in the middle. Lori is her super cool mom. This is what Lori said about her husb...
, Lori , Steve , Obama , Silanchi
2008-10-03  In Your Face
Photos: Sen. Joe Biden at vice presidential debate. (AP photos) FIGHTING HAIR LOSS AND WRINKLES Cosmetic doctors helped mold Sen. Joe Biden’s appearance in last night’s vice presidential debate. Botox injections apparently both eased the 65-year-old’s wrinkles and constr...
, Botox , Celebrities , Joe , OC
2008-10-03  Rachel Lucas
I didn’t blow anything up in chem lab today, although I did splatter NaOH solution all over the place while trying to pour it into the buret with a funnel and not realizing the funnel had created an airtight plug thus preventing the base I was pouring from actually going through ...
, Politics
2008-10-03  Brains On Fire Blog
The Doddfather here at Brains on Fire sent around a link today that talks about how a Hollywood director tried to outsmart the torrent sites. (BTW, a torrent site is one where folks upload audio and video from albums, movies and tv shows and others can go and download them for free.) A...
, Uncategorized , BitTorrent , Brains , Darren , Madonna , Napster , Radiohead , Repo! , torrent
2008-10-03  Inside Facebook
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, and lead engineer Justin Rosenstein, announced today that they will be leaving Facebook to start their own company together in about a month. Facebook has confirmed that the two will be leaving the company. Rosenstein confirms that the duo will be ...
, Facebook
2008-10-03  Dad's House
Dad’s House Jr., a middle school student, is going to his first dance! Is he nervous? Nah. He learned the art of approaching women from watching his old man in action. Plus, he has plenty of Axe body spray. More importantly, Dad’s House Jr. is hanging out at the dance with ...
, dating , family , how , humor , single , single , teenagers , teens
Posted by Dr. Jane Doe.There have been some major overhauls in the way students can gain entry to medical school in Ireland in the last year or so. I read about the proposals in the papers before I left Ireland, but didn’t really think they would go ahead. But now they have, and for ...
2008-10-03  Innovators Network
Gigaom.com: What can entrepreneurs do to mitigate some of the more devastating effects of the on-going financial crisis without having to strap on a sandwich board or sell apples from a fruit box? Angelsoft's Ryan Janssen has some words by which a battle-plan for survival can be l...
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I got the dreaded “3am wakeup call” from Darren. TechCrunch had written up the change in our blogger pay announced last night. I wrote a response. It got moderated. Shai tried to copy my response and hers was moderated too. So here it is in short form, we’ll have a fu...
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2008-10-03  Silicon Florist
Yesterday, it dawned on me that I keep an eye on a bunch of people who work on mobile apps. I’ve covered them from time to time—most recently with the Obama for iPhone app—but I thought it might be helpful to give you a glimpse of some of the folks who are making t...
, Avatron , CloudFour , Consultants , Developers , Development , GoLife , Mobile , Oregon , Portland , cloud , consultant , Developer , don , free , mobile , mobile , obama , raven , silicon
2008-10-03  Susan-Says