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- previous page - - next page -Dogs, cats and the media's frenzy... Today we're going to stir up a potpourri of items, from the continuing hunt for Steffi the German Shepherd to a golf tournament for dogs. And, as this is being typed, I heard an MSNBC interview with one of the shuttle astronauts who was asked if the ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Microsoft Money 2006 Premium... Amazon.com has Microsoft's Money 2006 Premium for $40 A/R (expires 9/15) Microsoft Money 2006 Premium helps you plan and achieve long-term financial goals, optimize investments, and make tax-smart investment decisions. All in one place. Track spendi ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Will Train!... Money IS Important! Have you ever gotten 'spiritual' with an ATM machine, praying that you can get a $20 bill out, when you know you've only have $19.11 in your checking account? Wouldn't it be nice to take your significant other to a 5 star restaur ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Palm Addict Profile: Arny Moore... It?s that time again! I?m excited about today?s Palm Addict Profile, but before I begin, I?d like to again thank Jennifer for her fun answers to my questions in the last profile! I enjoyed learning more about her, and her enthusiasm showed through i ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Palm Addict Profile: Arny Moore... It?s that time again! I?m excited about today?s Palm Addict Profile, but before I begin, I?d like to again thank Jennifer for her fun answers to my questions in the last profile! I enjoyed learning more about her, and her enthusiasm showed through i ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Platinum Stox Reports... WE TOLD YOU TO WATCH!!! IT'S STILL NOT TOO LATE! TRADING ALERT!!! Timing is everything!!! Profits of 200-400% EXPECTED TRADING SYMB0L: CDGT.OBOpening Price: 3.15 Yes, it is MOVING, Wednesday could be even BIGGER!!! 10 Day Target: $7-$8 News Alert! * ...
(more) (08/04/2005)vacation recap... [This is a long one. Consider yourselves warned. I was going to cut it in two to make it more palatable, but fuck it. It's done, so here you go.]Whenever I take time off from posting, I find it hard to get back in the groove. This is especially true ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Drop the Hammer... And the nails, and the saw, and those two-by-fours. Pretty much hold everything. That’s the message that some folks building new homes or expanding existing homes in Chevy Chase, MD are getting from their neighbors. I realize that I don’ ...
(more) (08/04/2005)CFR background Q&A on the impact of John Garang?s death... From the Council on Foreign Relations; links are from the original... What will be the impact of John Garang's death? John Garang, the 60-year-old Sudanese vice president and former rebel leader, was a critical partner with Sudanese President Omar a ...
(more) (08/04/2005)The Economist: Chasing the dream... The Economist Chasing the dream "Another analogy can be made between games and music?specifically, with the emergence of rock and roll in the 1950s. Like games today, it was a new art form that was condemned for encouraging bad behaviour among young ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Urban Tax... Nick of Electoral Math writes about the "Grocery Store Conundrum", the tendency for low-income city neighborhoods to see fewer supermarkets and higher food prices than middle- and high-income neighborhoods. Why don't market forces put as m ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Morning Roundup: Nun Shall Pass Edition... Something weird's going on, D.C. Yesterday a 38 year-old Catholic nun identified as Sister Liann was kidnapped from behind Our Lady Queen of Peace Convent in Southeast. She was then driven about two miles away and released unharmed. Police are looki ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Dems Get Pummeled At Home Over CAFTA... Last week before the vote on the corporate-written Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), I tried to predict which Democrats would face real trouble at home if they sold out and voted for it. This week, at least some of my predictions came t ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Business Process Management (BPM) Meets BI And Performance M... Most business process management (BPM) vendors have integrated their products with business intelligence (BI) for analyzing historical process data; but BPM products should also integrate with BI to support decision-intensive business processes like ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Professor X is MLK, Magneto is Malcolm X... Believe it or not, that's what Stan Lee had in mind for the racial undertones beneath X-Men when he first thought it up way back in the day. And when you think about it, it's there. MLK wanted to work with the whites to promote equality, rather than ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Tracers... When I was in college, someone told me about an assignment they had been given in a history class. The professor had handed out 6 different descriptions of the same battle. The students had to come up with their best estimate of what really happened ...
(more) (08/04/2005)August 1st readings... ~ Click on this link for today's readings ~2 Chronicles 30:1-31:21 ~ Romans 15:1-22Psalm 25:1-15 ~ Proverbs 20:13-15Old Testament - Great readings today in Second Chronicles chapter 30 about King Hezekiah inviting all of Israel and Judah to celebrat ...
(more) (08/04/2005)What?s Left for Nauru... The South Pacific island of Nauru has been strip mined for the past 100 years, leaving the remaining arable land subject to rising sea levels. The 13,000 inhabitants are now entirely dependent on imports and face an uncertain future. I first heard a ...
(more) (08/04/2005)New Real Estate Service Directory... Author: biggerpo Subject: New Real Estate Service Directory Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:19 pm (GMT -8) Topic Replies: 0 We're in the process of adding a service directory for all of you. Check back frequently, as we'll be adding new pages almost dail ...
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(more) (08/04/2005)Commercial Real Estate Investment Bank - Pacific Security Ca... Commercial real estate lender, Pacific Security Capital, continues to expand its capital markets and investment practice by hiring new Managing Director Chief Investment Officer. [PRWEB Aug 4, 2005]
(08/04/2005)Property Mortgage Partnership Launches New Website for Spain... PMP have today launched a brand new dynamic website offering visitors & clients the opportunity to find property in three major investment areas, peruse distressed & undervalued bargain properties AND arrange finance in what they consider to be a "o ...
(more) (08/04/2005)China and Japan, an Ill Wind or the Return to Normalcy... I’ve just cut and pasted the article below for your reading pleasure. The article evokes several responses from me. The first of the interesting ones is that it calls to mind the rather ballsy move by the Japanese Navy to not only chase a ChiC ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Failure Is Not an Option... The following was originally posted here. Eugene F. Kranz, author of ?Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond,? is a former Apollo flight director. By Eugene F. Kranz To read and listen to the coverage of the o ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Senior Process EngineerFood industry (Denver , CO )... Adecco Technical is currently recruiting for a Senior Process Engineer for one of our most valued clients in the Denver, CO area. If you are interested and qualified please send a Word doc of your resume. The Senior Process Engineer position consist ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Operations Analyst2nd3rd Shift (Chicago , IL )... A leading-edge Investment Bank has an immediate need on 2nd and 3rd shift. Hours for 2nd are 2pm to 10pm Hours for 3rd are 10pm to 7am The ideal candidate will have experience in the following areas: - IT Operations tasks including running jobs, ver ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Senior Packaging Engineer (Denver , CO )... Adecco Technical is currently recruiting for a Senior Packaging Engineer for one of most valued clients in the Denver, CO area. This is a full time permanent position, if interested and qualified please send a Word doc of your resume. JOB DESCRIPTIO ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Good Use of Eminent Domain... The New Jersey township of Mount Laurel turned the tables on a real estate developer, using the power of eminent domain to seize a 16 acre piece of land to turn it into open space [link] and [link]. The developer had planned to build 23 homes on the ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Life Options: among other things... so i got to thinking... what really do i have as options in life right now, heres what i came up with:1. Boston ? i still havent given up no the idea2. Europe ? I wanted to travel to euorpe and become a street preformer otu there, maybe for a year o ...
(more) (08/04/2005)The Hunt Continues...... We’ve seen quite a number of houses in the past few weeks, and we’ve been excited about what we saw twice. The first time was last week when we visited a nicely done up ground floor apartment (with a back yard!) that required no work from us what so ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Ecast: View Interactive Sells Out CD to Broadband Jukebox Co... Amusement Machine Operators Reinvigorate Drop through Unprecedented Listening Choices OAKLAND – July 18, 2005 - View Interactive Entertainment (http://www.viewmfg.com), which helps amusement machine operators breath new life into older equipmen ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Re: dt. DerivateV - Zerlegung von Credit-Linked-Notes in the... Besten Dank Hr. Radtke für Ihren wirklich guten Beitrag. Urpsrünglich wollte ich die Frage - ein paar Tage nach dem Einstellen - dahingehend modifizieren, dass vom einfachen Ansatz ist Rede ist. Leider war dies dann nicht mehr möglich. Daher bitte i ...
(more) (08/04/2005)A Real Funk.... I have been working myself into a real funk and it is getting harder by the day to dig out of it. I want to make it clear that you are the one consistent person in my life right now. While you have been caught up in this funk (less letters have been ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Ebook Affiliate Information... In my previous post I offered a free e-book that I hope you have seen and gotten a chance to use. On one of the Real Estate message boards I got in some trouble form one of the members as he discovered that I had affiliate links in the file. An affi ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Increasing Connectedness and Increasing Reaction - Dave Wein... I have been subscribing to KM World for years and find it a useful guide to what is happening in this space. I especially like Dave Weinberger?s column. In an insightful article, An equal and opposite reaction, he discusses how established old guard ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Automotive Retailing Takes to Salsa, Tommy Bahamas and Tacos... August 3, 2005By Rupa Ranganathan At a time when automotive manufacturers are all jumping onto the bandwagon of "employee discounts," automotive dealers are also vying with each other to make their outlets unique and the preferred choice. ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Director of Business Development - Investment Banking Firm... We are a national strategic business plan consulting and investment banking firm. We specialize in assisting emerging and middle market companies with equity and debt financings and with selling all or part of their businesses. We conduct market res ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Question of the day from Asrah "It seems from my ...... Question of the day from Asrah "It seems from my conversations with you that you essentially schedule time with your friends. I know that even with people that I love, if I am not in the mood for their particular personality, they grate on my nerves ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Infosearch Media Announces New Click Fraud Technologies... Marina Del Rey, Calif. - June 20, 2005 - Leading online media and search marketing firm InfoSearch Media, Inc. (OTC:BB:ISHM) today announced it has integrated two new additions into its set of fraud-prevention offerings. Dynamic Traffic Distribution ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Ati Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition Upgrade Dell 8400... This is the new Powerhouse graphics card that I installed yesterday after work. Whats funny is I needed a special fan from Dell before I installed this card to keep from getting a warning message on the boot up, but I ordered the fan two days after ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Novell Asks Court to Separate SCOsource Money... Posted by timothy (19% noise) View clusterix writes “Groklaw has posted Novell’s answer to SCO’s slander of title complaint. In it, Novell produces many counter claims. The most eye-catching is the claim for the revenue from the SC ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Recs Update! Popslash and Buffy and Emo Boys, oh my!... It's been too long, amores, but here 'tis. An update with a whole slew of recs I've been accumlating since MARCH, omg. For some reason, this time, I seemed to pick fics whose others just didn't deign to give a rating to! Is that a trend? I always ra ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Friday del.icio.us Links incl another Rupert Acquisition... Read my post yesterday re Newscorp who are buying our #1 real estate classifieds site : realestate.com.au. They are Tom Hanks in Web 2.0 first media company to get addicted to what Fred Wilson called posting, subscribing and tagging. I'm sure Rupe l ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Bahrain Property Positively Promoted by Star's Latest Purcha... Have you ever considered adding Bahrain to your list of emerging property markets to examine? Well, maybe you should: it seems interest in real estate in this Middle Eastern tax haven is intensifying after it was rumoured that Michael Jackson ...
(more) (08/04/2005)SFist Reads... Walking to the train to work this morning, we were thinking about winning the lottery (when we do, Rain, we've got you covered). While a lottery win would definitely mean both no work and far less public transportation, we still think we'd reserve b ...
(more) (08/04/2005)(No Title)... As for CY (Chongyu) himself, I learned to my great surprise that yesterday was his first day in retirement! He has been working as a Caltrans engineer for the past almost two decades, and bureaucratic bungling and corruption at his job compelled him ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Matt's Scotland Trip, Part 2: Saturday, July 23rd-Sunday, Ju... Friday was pretty much the only day that I actually took real notes on (particularly of the timed variety). (Very) early Saturday morning, I got a couple hours of fitful sleep on the plane, whilst letting my mp3s play on. In addition to the dinner e ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Grover Lust... One of the most disturbing phenomena among liberals is the mindless worship of Grover Norquist as the model of the sort of single-minded organizer and ideological enforcer that a party needs. Some on the left seem to venerate Norquist in just the wa ...
(more) (08/04/2005)NASA Debates Second Discovery Repair... Posted by CmdrTaco (37% noise) View An anonymous reader writes “NASA is debating today whether or not they should attempt a second repair attempt of the Space Shuttle Discovery to repair a possible problem with the thermal blanket. On Wednesda ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Implementing New Technology for Health Plans... Today's health plans operate under a wholesale business model in which the employer chooses what to spend, where to spend it, what the network is and who the providers are. Health plan products traditionally consist of a financing vehicle and a phys ...
(more) (08/04/2005)The REAL Threat to Radio and what to do about it... From News.com: Last year, 29 percent of North American households connected to the Net via broadband. This number will be 62 percent by 2010, That's many years before HD Radio is likely to be common, even by iBiquity's predictions. What do you think ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Did Google Foresee Microsoft Exec Hire Ire?... Largest Private Cos. People World's Richest People 100 Top Celebrities 400 Richest Americans Best Paid CEOs Places Best Places Personal Finance Estate Planning Funds Philanthropy Retirement Strategies Taxes ...
(08/04/2005)The hurried departure of homo mastercardiens... I’m in London now, for my friend Vanessa’s wedding. Ran a little late setting out, as is my custom. I had a deadline that needed finishing at work before leaving, and 2.5 hours before takeoff I was still writing code, sleepless, nothing ...
(more) (08/04/2005)In The Mood For Tech When I studied at college I ...... In The Mood For Tech When I studied at college I was told that the chocolate manufacturers loved a recession. As people were insecure or depressed they bought more chocolate. According to News.com, Forrester Reseach has come to a similar conclusion ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Another credit card moron... Ok, here I am standing at work when I get this *possible german* woman who speaks pretty good english come to buy a ticket. Already I'm thinking "cool, you have pretty dam good english, kudos" so I'm not in a shit mood or anything.She gives me her c ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Joel Reymont: Worse is better... I have not tried thinking about my attempts to do the right thing in Lisp from a philosophical prospective. Writing that Lisp is a pain in the rear prompted this comment from Aaron and some introspection on my part.Joel,I have enjoyed following your ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Microsoft Introduces Lifecycle Funds to 401(k)... To give credit where credit is due, Microsoft's benefits department is very vigilant in its handling of the 401(k) program. Earlier this year, the poor performing Fidelity Magellan (FMAGX) was dropped from the investment options. It is not an easy m ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Melbourne -- Climate Change Rally, 3:30pm, Fri 19 August... Hi everyone! My lover and I have organised a rally on climate change in Melbourne, protesting against the expansion of Hazelwood (most greenhouse polluting power station in Aus) and asking the State Govt to invest more in renewables and encourage en ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Sydney's Most Exclusive Magazine... So when is exclusive, exclusive? Sydney high fliers who are feeling a bit cut off or marginalised now have a publication just for them, a magazine that wears its dollar signs on its sleeve. It's called 100k+ and is created for people who want m ...
(more) (08/04/2005)Britney's Pumice Stone: Investing In The Future... In the rapidly approaching future, the DNA that once produced successful pop-stars will be degraded by its commingling with the inferior genes of suspiciously fertile, unemployed background dancers, and a recording industry decimated by the resultin ...
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