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Cloud-based, collaborative reporting models to newspapers’ rescue?
Newspapers yellow (Photo credit: NS Newsflash) It is a wonder daily newspapers that cling to archaic business models still exist at all. While I enjoy thumbing through a daily even now, I can’t get...
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Throwing up for success and notoriety
Everyone is trying to get noticed, so much like the Seinfeld episode where George ends up doing (and saying) the exact opposite of what he is initially inclined to do and yields fantastic results, I...
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From the desk of Captain Obvious: Less busy bees help busier bees be less buzzy
The best thing about life is it beats the alternative—plain and simple. All of the things you do are part of life’s fabric. Once you’re dead and gone, no one remembers the last sales presentation you...
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This may take awhile
I wonder if the term “this may take a while” is not one of the best messages a developer and/or marketing department ever came up with. “This may take a while” soothes the soul of those waiting for...
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To try and do your business outside and to have lost is better than to not...
I think geriatric dogs are sages. They know what’s up with almost everything and if you tap into their body rhythms, a.k.a. their outdoor bidness, you may just be able to predict when the stock market...
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Vending machine voodoo and the elusive, accompanying microwave
While on the road and noting that rest area signs sometimes feature “Vending Machines,” I thought aloud how glorious it would be if there were a portable microwave app for our smart phones. Because I...
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Increasing your chances of receiving the kindness of strangers
This piece is about bad. And good. Mostly bad, though. And how people you don’t even know may get you through all changes good and bad provided your heart is not closed off. If you say you don’t like...
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The stillness
Except for an occasional whisper of leaves that constituted an eerie breeze, the denseness of the air was stifling as I put the trash and yard waste out to the curb. We were under tornado watches and...
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Nothing gets likes like beautiful kissers
I think that along with the different kinds of smiley faces you can generate on the Internet, the single best utility of the 21st century are the new kinds of makeup people apply to their faces so they...
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Ode to the plumber (or back to the basics of crack)
View image | gettyimages.com If you’ve ever had to deal with plumbing repair jobs you know what a bear they can be. First of all, you have to be a contortionist–fitting your […]
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Pub university grads enjoy real world skills, less regret and save $$$
If a pub is a poor man’s university then I must be one of the most extensively, informally educated men around. It’s not something to take as cold, hard fact, yet, sometimes […]
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‘Just works’ mantra finally applies to Linux (Mint ‘Rafaela’) adopters
It was time to get back to Linux on one of my old PC’s. I have Windows 10 running well on an ancient 1.83 GHz Core2Duo processor desktop PC. I also have […]
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This may take awhile
Facebook logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I wonder if the term “this may take a while” is not one of the best messages a developer and/or marketing department ever came up with. “This may take a while”...
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To try and do your business outside and to have lost is better than to not...
Big dawg (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I think geriatric dogs are sages. They know what’s up with almost everything and if you tap into their body rhythms, a.k.a. their outdoor bidness, you may just be...
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Vending machine voodoo and the elusive, accompanying microwave
English: Snack Machine (Photo credit: Wikipedia) While on the road and noting that rest area signs sometimes feature “Vending Machines,” I thought aloud how glorious it would be if there were a...
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Increasing your chances of receiving the kindness of strangers
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The stillness
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Nothing gets likes like beautiful kissers
Actress Lillian Gish (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I think that along with the different kinds of smiley faces you can generate on the Internet, the single best utility of the 21st century are the new...
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Ode to the plumber (or back to the basics of crack)
Embed from Getty Images If you’ve ever had to deal with plumbing repair jobs you know what a bear they can be. First of all, you have to be a contortionist–fitting your body into small spaces it never...
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Pub university grads enjoy real world skills, less regret and save $$$
If a pub is a poor man’s university then I must be one of the most extensively, informally educated men around. It’s not something to take as cold, hard fact, yet, sometimes I like to think if one...
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