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Eclipse paid off! Now pay up.

ByDerek

I was overjoyed to have scheduled my final payment on my Eclipse. After sixty payments, I was really looking forward to having that extra chunk of change added to my bank account every month for awhile, at least until I felt it was time to finally move on from the car of my “youth”. 😉…

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They’re out there, and willing

ByDerek

Mary Kunz Goldman’s article about Alive Night came out today, and it was pretty good. BuffaloPundit ranked it an all new record-breaking low score of 1 on the mockability scale. I would have given it at least a 1.5 for poor fact checking (it’s broadwayfillmorealive.org and Paderewski Drive) but we can blame the editors for…

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Market madness

ByDerek

I haven’t done much financial blogging lately, but today I have a good reason to. The stock market rallied a bit today, and everything in my portfolio was up… except for Valero (VLO) and Nighthawk Radiology (NHWK). Valero I can understand. Oil prices fell a bit, and so the oil refiners will follow. But Nighthawk…

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Smokey Bones changing up their formula?

ByDerek

Caught this on MarketWatch today: DES MOINES, Iowa (MarketWatch) — Darden Restaurants Inc. (DRI) said Wednesday it may change the name of its struggling Smokey Bones barbecue chain as part of efforts to improve its appeal. Because the casual-dining operator believes the chain’s positioning is “too narrow,” the company said several barbecue-oriented items will be…

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Participation Inequality

ByDerek

As a web applications developer, I often read Jakob Nielsen’s articles on usability. His most recent article deals with something of interest to the blogging world – participation inequality, or as we might say, lurkers vs. commentors. In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little,…

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