I think Facebook picked up only on the "slacker" part of the "slacker half marathon" description here and ran with it. The ads don't quite fit the photo.
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My Dad used to say a dog would eat grass when his stomach was upset (the dog’s not my Dad’s). Max isn’t feeling well and wanted to come to the park to eat some grass.
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Juan Carlos Arzola is internationally recognized as one of the best ‘great money maker’, helping people in many categories of business turn their ideas into real fortunes. He is provocative, irrelevant, humorous, sarcastic, but chilling, serious that goes to the point and cuts to the core of the real issues in an incredible way no other marketing ‘guru’ does.
Umm, if you’re going to market yourself as a guru, you may want to use a dictionary…or hire a copywriter. That’s a typo you really don’t want to make.
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Guess it's time to clean up my labels. I have over fifty and most of them are controlled by filters anyway.
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Priced out of the New York City real estate market, the couple rent an apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. They decided to make their first home purchase a weekend house in the Catskills.
They had looked at about 30 houses during a four-month hunt for a country home last summer, and finally closed on the two-bedroom, one-bath home for $95,000 last September. Along with the house, a 700-square-foot 1920s cottage, the property in Sparrow Bush, a village in Orange County, N.Y., includes eight and a half wooded acres and a detached garage/barn 800 feet from the house.
Every weekend, starting in October, the couple drove two hours from their home in Brooklyn to the house, undertaking all of the necessary reconstruction themselves, except the re-roofing, which was done by a contractor. Both urbanites, neither had ever tackled a renovation before, but the project was thrilling to them.
“That’s the luxury of being a young, first-time home buyer,” Ms. Salway said. “It was empowering to see what we could do.”
This is a great story.
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We used to call them lightning bugs when I was a kid.
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I grieve for him; but I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him. That culture is ours’ and it is a lethal and brutal one: with fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out.
I hope he has the peace now he never had in his life. And I pray that such genius will not be so abused again.
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I tried, Lord knows I tried. After being a loyal RIM BlackBerry user for years I was lured away by the sleek curves of the iPhone 3G. My torrid affair with Apple lasted almost exactly one year. After a year with the 3G and with the impending release of the 3G S I decided to make the switch back to BlackBerry.
To me it seemed like a no-brainer. The iPhone was a nice little toy to play with for a while but I needed productivity. I needed a hands on keyboard to easily reply to emails and texts on the run. I can use a BlackBerry with one hand while not even looking. Even with landscape keyboard iPhone typing is at best cumbersome compared to BB.
I practically taunted my co-workers that had stuck with or upgraded to the iPhone and made it a point to show them how much better the BlackBerry 8900’s camera was than the iPhone 3G S.
Then I tried the video. The first thing I noticed were the fairly large file sizes. The 8900 doesn’t use any sort of compression to send videos, not to mention it’s on the EDGE network, so any video that was over 40 seconds was way too large to attach to any email from the BB. RIM may tout video on the go but even using their smaller format of MMS mode recording in 176×144 (which is virutally unwatchable on any web based player) you could only take a few seconds of video if you wanted to keep it small enough email.
Even in it’s larger “normal” format, the 8900 only recorded 280×140 so if you got to your computer, hooked up and manually uploaded the video because it’s so small it still looks pretty bad in YouTube or Posterous.
The final straw wasn’t necessarily RIM’s fault but my wife has an iPhone and I really missed her sending photos of my daughter throughout the day. She would still send them but the photos would be resized to about the size of a flip phone photo on my BB.
As much as I longed for the productivity and tactile keyboard and as great as it felt having a BB back in my hands typing away at actual keys, I realized that there was just too much lacking for me.
I honestly don’t think anything will ever come close to the success of Apple’s App Store and like it or not, 3rd party apps are the future of mobile technology.
One other thing that really effected my decision was Phil Bogle’s decision to switch from BlackBerry to the iPhone 3G S. For those of you not familiar with Phil, he created one of the most popular and useful BlackBerry applications of all-time. Beyond411 (formerly Berry411). When you start to see long-term hardcore BB developers abandoning ship, it might be time to rethink your decision to stand by RIM.
Here’s just one of the reasons Phil gave for switching sides:
My primary interaction with Blackberry developer support was when they forced me to change the name of Berry411 to Beyond411, part of their trademark enforcement of anything related to Black or Berry. Other than their friendly trademark police, I was disappointed at how little RIM had to offer to third party developers. They wanted a $2000 fee just to join their developer program, offered limited promotional opportunities, and seemed to subservient to the wishes of their carrier partners.
Thankfully for AT&T’s 30-day return policy I was able to make a beeline to the Apple Store and pickup the 3G S…for good this time.
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