Remember when you were a kid and you thought for sure you could eat a huge serving of your favorite dish? Despite a heroic effort on your part, your rabid, feeding frenzy soon slowed to a crawl as you hardly made a dent into the food. Renting
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08/29/2008
Some of you are already familiar with Google's new tool -- Google Suggest. Well, now the whole world will know about it, because Google is launching it from their lab page and placing it "by default" on their homepage starting Sept. 1st. For those that don't know, basically Google Suggest enables
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08/27/2008
Think about it. He is regarded as the world's greatest investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Try buying one share of stock in this company = $116,000. According to wikie, his net worth is $62 billion dollars and he was ranked by Forbes as the richest person in the world in February 2008. He l
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08/22/2008
I want to thank Claire C for the invite to share the new MEME. If you don't know her, Claire is the glue that holds the ActiveRain Crew together in Bellevue, WA. Without her the place would fall apart or at the very least --- starve to death. (Her very candid posts are fun to read.) The The fo
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08/18/2008
My sister took this pic when she was traveling overseas and when I saw it I said, "This is perfect for my company's message." What do you think? Can it win an award? ========================================================================== ========================================================
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08/14/2008
A California Superior Court judge dealt a major blow to the Telecom players as he ruled that "charging consumers a fee for ending their cell phone contract early is illegal and violates state law." Sprint-Nextel got spanked to the tune of $18.2 million for past fees collected, plus they have been
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07/31/2008
Have you ever said when moving -- "Why didn't I plan this out better?" If you haven't, I am sure your clients have a time or two. People are always underestimating how much time and work it takes to move -- and I am as guilty as the next person. Below is a quick little schedule layout. It is not
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07/23/2008
Technologist, Jason Perlow, starts out writing the newsbreak -- "As the great Obi-Wan Kenobi once said, 'I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.'" That is 9% of the total stores (7,087) that are closing. I guess i
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07/21/2008
After reading Maureen McCabe's post, "ActiveRain -- Saying Nothing At All" -- I became aware of the discussion revolving around leaving GPTFS (Great Post, Thanks For Sharing) comments on a post. Is there value for anyone in doing it? Personally, I believe there is value, but that is because I thi
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07/16/2008
Here is an article out of the Wall Street Journal at the beginning of July -- "Most Affordable Places to Live." Actually, the article is a take off from MSN's report on the "Nine Most Affordable Housing Markets. (Don't ask me why they couldn't come up with one more place to make it an even ten.
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07/14/2008
