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You give love, er, preservation a bad name
ByDerek(apologies to Bon Jovi) I ran across an editorial in The Sun the other day from another anti-Wal-Mart individual. Obviously, anti-Wal-Martites are not at all unique, but this one tries to play the preservation card. While Hamburg seems to be split on the issue of the proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter, I stand firm on my belief…
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Aquarama headed for the scrap heap?
ByDerekI haven’t reported anything on our rusty old buddy, the Aquarama, recently. Frankly, I haven’t thought much about it. Until today. I got an email inquiry asking if I knew anything about it being sold to an Indian scrap metal salvage company. I hadn’t, but a little googling turned up an article that seems to…
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Select Comfort learns the real power of Twitter
ByDerekIf you didn’t read yesterday’s entry, start there. Select Comfort’s corporate headquarters is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Above is the traffic map for my site today. The darker the green, the higher the percentage of traffic originated there. Needless to say, my Twitter campaign to better inform potential Select Comfort customers was being heard in…
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Eliot Sptizer protects us from ourselves
ByDerekI shuddered when I read this article, just as North Buffalo Journal and Review did. As a result, he would propose new efforts that would protect children from excessive sex and violence in the media; from tobacco company marketing; from access to illegal guns, and from a junk food industry he said has little regard…
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Nice to hear
ByDerekEvery once in awhile I get an email from someone who would like to use the music I wrote for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Since I have yet to get around to publishing it or making a quality recording, I always tell the person they’re free to use it as long as they credit me…
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A small courtyard
ByDerekYeah… since it’s been almost 2 years since being in Europe, and now that I have Lightroom, I really have no more excuses for not finishing with this photo set. Plus, I’ve got a free photo book coupon that I want to use for this trip, so time to get back to work. I just…
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