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• Miss Taken Identity

  July 6, 2009 in Blogging, Fun, Quote

  Funny… Thanks to a quote in a caption (”We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.” from this blog post here) — sans …

• The Trillion-Dollar Market

  July 4, 2009 in Business, VRM, infrastructure

  Forget financial markets for a minute, and think about the directions money moves in retail markets. While much of it moves up and down the supply chains, the first source is customers. The money that …

• El Jacko Santa Barbarbeque

  July 3, 2009 in Events, Journalism, Life, News, Places, Travel

  One of the best things about living in (or just following) Santa Barbara is reading Nick Welsh’s Angry Poodle Barbeque column each week in the Independent — one of the best free newsweeklies …

• Beyond celebrity obsession

  June 27, 2009 in Future, Ideas, Life, News

  Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. — Eleanor Roosevelt Somebody I wish to discuss an idea here. It’s an idea about celebrity, and it follows …

• Life in Cox tech support hell

  June 27, 2009 in Blogging, Business, Gear, infrastructure, problems

  Major props to Cox for cranking up my speeds to 18Mb/s downstream and 4Mb/s upstream. That totally rocks. I’m getting that speed now. Here’s what Cox’s local diagnostic tool says: TCP/Web100 Network Diagnostic Tool v5.4.12 click START …