July 2010
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Testes testes 1-2
It’s nice to know Doc’s inner-four-year-old is alive and well. Please don’t worry his site wasn’t hacked. This is just a test. Your friends, Dave and Doc Continue reading
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The France Diet
From June 13 to July 21, I lived in France. This was the longest I had been out of the country, ever. And, while I loved just about everything about being there, what I’m liking best at the moment is what I failed to take back with me: about ten pounds of fat. I still… Continue reading
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Hey Jules, bring me another fifty skulls
While walking around Paris for the last month, I’ve became fascinated by the highly fossiliferous limestone that comprises so many of its iconic structures. At one point I thought, Hmm… The City of Light is built with materials of death. I had no idea how much farther that thought would take me. Without abundant death… Continue reading
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R-Buttons and the Open Marketplace
Three things happen in a marketplace. One is transaction, another is conversation and the third is relationship. Let’s talk about what you, as a customer (not just a consumer), can do with each. Transaction Let’s start with price. Here in the industrialized world, price has been something that sellers have set, and buyers have paid,… Continue reading
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The Mall Wide Web
Let’s start by asking this question: Is Google becoming the world’s biggest SEO company? That question popped into my mind after reading The Google Algorithm, an editorial in Wednesday’s New York Times. It begins, Google handles nearly two-thirds of Internet search queries worldwide. Analysts reckon that most Web sites rely on the search engine for… Continue reading
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Hey Verizon, show us some upstream FiOS love
If you want to get the most out of your Verizon FiOS (fiber to the home) Internet connection, here are your top two tiers: I have the one on the left, and that’s what I’m paying for it. The service is rock-solid and reliable. So is support, as rarely as I’ve needed it. But when… Continue reading
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How about just making mesothelioma the state disease?
The California state rock is serpentine (correct name, serpentinite), which comes in many varieties, some which contain asbestos, which doesn’t get dangerous unless you grind it up and spread it into the air. Just sitting there, as it does through much of California and in other parts of the world, serpentine is mostly a greenish… Continue reading
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Paris in the rain
I don’t think I’ve ever loved Paris in the rain more than I do right now. It’s 6:40am, and I’ve been up since 5am, when I got tired of failing to sleep on sweat-soaked sheets. Last night was one more to endure in the heat wave that has been with us for nearly the whole… Continue reading
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Context is King
There are two essential concepts of location for the World Wide Web. One is you: the individual, the reader, the writer, the customer, the singular entity. The other is the World. I live and work mostly in the U.S. I also speak English. My French, German and Spanish are all too minimal to count unless… Continue reading
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Purple Reign Ends
Prince, to the Mirror: “The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it. “The internet’s like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became… Continue reading
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Sourcing Persephone
We are what we do. We are more than that, of course, but it helps to have answers to the questions “What do you do?” and “What have you done?” Among many other notable things Persephone Miel did was survive breast cancer. It was a subject that came up often during the year we shared… Continue reading