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Thank you

Thanks to Dan, Barbara, Ed, Ed, John, Frank, Randall, Kelly, Ellen, Don, Dan, Bill, Ken, Nick, Kent, Steve, Ken, Tom, Jim, Gary, Ray, Bob, Glenn, Don, David, Cathy, Martha, Marie, Susan, Katherine, Tim,

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-06

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-23

  • RT @toddbishop Steve Ballmer scribbling on a Mac. Like Thomas Kinkade signing a Van Gogh? http://bit.ly/7doRRk #
  • RT @JeffElder Conan's exit Friday, means, in the annals of "Tonight Show" history, Johnny's guest host Joey Bishop hosted more shows (177). #
  • RT @George_Erb Congressional subcommittee investigates FDIC's seizure and sale of Washington Mutual to JPMorgan. http://bit.ly/6bZKSx #
  • Good review by Mossberg: Digital File Cabinet You Can Bring With You Anywhere http://bit.ly/6y6hWN #WSJ #evernote #
  • RT @bizjournals: An inspiring story of a former bank teller who became blind at 40 and became CEO of the bank. http://bizj.us/k029 #
  • TechFlash: Mobile application downloads expected to top $6 billion this year. http://bit.ly/5I1VBw #
  • RT @johnhcook Rob Glaser's stock holdings in RealNetworks surged by $40M this week after resignation. http://bit.ly/8YcvxI #
  • RT @bizjournals: If you enjoy reading about startups: Taking the startup plunge, and taking you along for the ride. http://bizj.us/is0p #
  • The Pickens Plans winds down: Pickens Shelves Texas Wind Project http://bit.ly/64bnil #WSJ #
  • RT @yelvington Eyeballing Google News, it appears NYT and Wapo are biggest beneficiaries of Google dropping its AP feed. #
  • Don't Bet on Efficient-Market Model http://bit.ly/6QqoHc #WSJ — index funds #
  • Xbox Live is more international than I realized. Knowing French can be handy when you're fighting zombies. #

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“Up in the Air” is a funny movie

“Up in the Air” was laugh-out-loud funny. Enough satire on business, relationships, customer loyality programs and even generations.  Another good movie with George Clooney. A bonus in watching the movie was finding the shots in St. Louis, especially when those scenes were supposed to be other movies.

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Cutting the Fantastico cord with WP 2.9.1 upgrade

wordpress logoUpgraded to WP 2.9.1 without help from Fantastico and it worked. I feel liberated, until something goes wrong, and I end up running to tech support for help.

Fantiastico was great for helping me get the WordPress blog started, but I was waiting to upgrade to the 2.9 versions, and I was tired of waiting.

That was so easy though, I’m tempted to try other things and probably make a mess.

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Lisey’s Story by Stephen King

Lisey's_story I stopped reading Lisey’s Story by Stephen King after 150 pages. Maybe it was the story, maybe it was me, but I couldn’t keep enough interest in the book to push on.

I’ve enjoyed other King novels, but I also have a rule that if I can’t stay interested in the book after the first 50 pages, I’ll put it down.

This book was much better in the first 50 pages, but it began to lose my interest after the first 100. Maybe I’ll try it again later.

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Cost of starting a news or web site are low

From Yelvington, The first rule of coding for Drupal:

This is a message to prospective Drupal developers. I’m going to propose this as the First Rule of Coding for Drupal: We do not write code for Drupal.

In the post, he also mentions the J-learning site Newspaper in a box by Mark Briggs, a guideline for starting a newspaper from scratch and without Web consulting.

Recently Portfolio.com profiled an executive of a new business start-up who described how inexpensive the cost to build a web site are:

I’ll even put numbers on it: What cost a minimum of $500,000 and took nine months and lots of engineering talent in 2004 can be done today, thanks to technology changes, by smart people with some Web awareness or the willingness to learn, for less than $20,000 in three months. It’s not that we’re doing this business on duct tape and baling wire, either. We’re working with very clean, professional services that can scale and which just a few years ago cost a hundred times as much to put in place.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-01-09

  • Rule of 72 and current savings account rates means your money will double in 1442 years. Why save? #
  • RT @johnhcook Washington high schoolers can take game design, entrepreneurship classes at a new online school. http://bit.ly/7UnwO7 #
  • RT @toddbishop: OK, consumer electronics industry, give me this: A hotel TV that doesn't turn on at maximum volume. #
  • The Numbers Guy : Fun with Calendars http://bit.ly/5WTeZL #WSJ # #
  • RT @ilowery Flu fears lead Southwest to jettison blankets, pillows. http://bit.ly/6ff3MK #
  • NYTimes: How to Train the Aging Brain — get out of the comfort zone to push and nourish your brain. http://s.nyt.com/u/A78 #
  • NYTimes: Watching TV Together, Miles Apart — we tried something like this before Skype. http://s.nyt.com/u/A41 #
  • WSJ: Economists Are Often Cheapskates. http://bit.ly/6DikJO #

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