The Power of Up-selling

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Categorized Under: Business, Work
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A couple days ago, I stopped by McDonalds on my way to a work meeting.  I was just gonna swing through the drive-thru to grab something off the dollar menu.  I was dead set on having the McChicken and a small Diet Coke.  $2.14 would be my total, it always is.  As I pulled up I had [...]

Social Network Overload

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Categorized Under: Networking
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In the last three years, social networking has blown up.  Social networking has taken on many forms over the last few years.  What it is, is any site that allows you to communicate and share comments, stories, pictures, music, basically anything, with other individuals you may or may not know.  Friendster was the “original gangster” on the [...]

Official Urban Golf Constitution

Posted by Dallas
Categorized Under: Life
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Urban Golf, as played in Rochester Minnesota, has seen a steady growth in the last couple months.  With growth, comes input from many sources.  Today, I have decided to form the Urban Golf Coalition of Rochester Minnesota.  You’re either with us, or you’re against us.  The UGCRM will seek to demonstrate consistency in the rules [...]

10 Must See Online Documentaries

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Categorized Under: Movies
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I love Google Video because they have so many great documentaries free to watch. Here are my favorite 10. Some are sad, some are wacky, but they are all very informative and entertaining. 1. Dangerous Knowledge In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians – Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan [...]

My Favorite Blog Posts

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Categorized Under: Blog Review
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It’s been 52 days since I started this blog.  Having successfully written 45 blogs, I think I should look back and pick out some of my favorite posts in case you might have missed them.  These aren’t my most viewed, most popular, or most controversial, these are just my personal favorites. Piracy Didn’t Kill The Music [...]

Why Twitter Will Rule The World

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Categorized Under: Friends, Life
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Twitter isn’t new by any means.  It’s new in the sense that it’s finally branching out from just the “in the know” people, to mainstream online users.  MySpace is bloated with spam, and runs like crap.  Facebook is cool, but the applications drive me crazy. The whole point of these web sites is to find out [...]

Why The Federal Reserve Sucks

Posted by Dallas
Categorized Under: Life
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– The Federal Reserve is a private bank. – The Federal Reserve has never been audited. – The Federal Reserve prints money out of thin air. – The Federal Reserve destroys your savings. – The Federal Reserve uses your savings to bail out corporations. – The Federal Reserve caused the financial crises. Every dollar The Federal [...]

New Blog Theme

Posted by Dallas
Categorized Under: Misc, Web Design
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I decided to go against the vote and pick the wood theme.  I actually changed the entire layout, basically only keeping the wood background.  I’m still gonna tweak some stuff here and there, but I like it enough to make it the default.  I’m gonna be playing with the colors some too.  They feel a [...]

When Bad Packaging Strikes

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Categorized Under: Humor, Life
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Now, I would never be confused with an environmentalist, but this is a little crazy. I recently ordered some cabling from Circuit City, and also Sweetwater.  When I saw the massive Circuity City box on my doorstep, I thought someone had made a mistake and sent me the wrong stuff. I decided to open the box [...]

“I’m A PC” Ad’s Created On Mac’s

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Categorized Under: Humor, Web Design
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While Microsoft keeps throwing money on their new advertising campaign in an effort to convince the public of their superior platform, a rather embarrassing fact has just come to light. Microsoft, which has it’s own set of tools for multimedia, including their Expression Studio for video editing (which they claim “takes your creative possibilities to a [...]