February 2007
The Archives
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Google, Real Estate Marketing, Technology
Google Local Calling
A while back I remember hearing rumors of Google’s business phone connect, but today I had the time to give it a test drive. For any listing in Google’s local business directory, you can click on “call,” enter a phone number where you can be reached, and zap bang boom your phone rings and you [...]
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Southern Quotes
Aging
“Getting old isn’t for sissies”
-Fran FloydShare the goodness:
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Gadgets, Technology
Media Junkie: Busted
How do you make up for not buying a Valentine’s gift for the wife?
Take this story to heart.
Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmonOuch. Gordon, read that article–twice!
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Family, Marriage, Thinking
Doghouse Ponderings
02.14.07 | Permalink | 4 CommentsWhen the wife says, “let’s not get each other anything this year,” she does not mean it. Doh!
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Pipes, Technology, Thinking, Web 2.0, Yahoo
PIPE dreams
Everybody who’s anybody has been writing about PIPES recently. I have run a few of the prebuilt pipes, and I have the sense that this is something really big, and I am unable to figure out its use fully (beyond tying flickr pix to NYTIMES). On the other hand, this could be another web 2.0 [...]
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Motorola Q, Technology
Q update MOL2
Okay, so I am not cutting edge on this one, but I have made the move to MOTO’s latest update to the Q (December 16, 2006). This update is said to make the following changes:
Before Update:
E911:
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RSS, Technology, Thinking, Video, Web 2.0
You know you are a geek…
…if this is more exciting than the pern’
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Business, Marketing, Real Estate Marketing, Thinking
I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…
…but this widget certainly gets me closer.
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Administrative, Google Alerts, Note to self, Organization, Technology
Bring Me the News–When it Happens: Google Alerts
02.05.07 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe days of searching through reams of newspaper print for stories that are applicable to our lives are in their twilight. RSS feeds (aka blogs) and Google Alerts change the way that valuable information is delivered. In this segment, I would like to specifically deal with Google Alerts and how they [...]
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Business, Caroling, Thinking
Sketches: Foundations of Art and Business
Yesterday, the daughter and I sat down to paint with some acrylic paints. The daughter was painting the newly crafted napkin holder and I sat staring blankly at the white canvas. A forest, I thought, would be a good subject, so I set out to paint a cedar tree. Shortly thereafter, I added a nameless [...]
