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I’ll be on the East Coast until July 12, so I probably won’t be posting or responding to email until then.
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I’ll be on the East Coast until July 12, so I probably won’t be posting or responding to email until then.
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Today was fabulous, weather-wise. A light, dry breeze; a bright, warm sun (74°, not blazing); scattered clouds for random patches of shade. Not humid in the least. An island of a day, converging at the exact sweet spot of comfort. The sheer perfection of it…
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Free Web Hosting with Domain Registration If you sign up for Catalog.com’s great free Web hosting service from the above link I get a kickback. Thanks…
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Yahoo! has wised up and increased their free email service’s storage capacity from 4MB to 100MB. Now they can somewhat compete with Google’s Gmail that offers 1GB, by not having to worry yet about droves of users abandoning Yahoo! Mail as their mailboxes approach the storage space limit.
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The monicker “Coke” is back as a low-carb alternative to the liquid sugar bomb that was allegedly once made with cocaine. If you were conscious in 1985 you remember the marketing debacle that was “New Coke”, Coca-Cola’s attempt to revitalize their market share and celebrate their centennial. Are Atkins adherents delusional enough to sustain this [...]
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Ray Charles has passed on. I knew him best from The Blues Brothers in which he played a musical instrument store owner with keen marksmanship…which is to say I didn’t know him well at all. He was a great performer and will be missed. Many comedians too often relied on an impression of him for [...]
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Royal Dutch/Shell oil company has admitted some responsibility for “poverty, violence and corruption” in Nigeria according to a report on its ethical and environmental record. According to Reuters: The company also acknowledged it was “difficult” to operate ethically in the Niger Delta, where conflict has surged periodically since the early 1990s, and said its attempts [...]
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I’m really sick of hearing about prisoner abuse in Iraq. What would life there be like now if the U.S. had arrested the “bad guys” looting their own nation’s treasures after the fall of Baghdad? Would their arrests have cut down the ranks of the rebels now killing young Americans? Would reduced ranks of rebels [...]
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