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  Save gas with small changes

  05.15.07 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  Share this article: Stumble It!  Del.icio.us  Slashdot  Technorati  Digg!  Subscribe As you may have heard, today, May 15th is the national gas boycott day. It’s a great attention ploy and maybe even an interesting symbol of protest. But in the end, all it will do is defer sales until later in the week. What’s required to really move prices? A change […]

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  Bush Approval Trend

  05.15.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Bush Approval Trend

  A colleague sent this link to me the other day and I thought it was pretty darned interesting. This chart below was taken from USA Today (a bastion of liberal media, yeah right) and shows the approval, disapproval, and no opinion lines of President Bush based on Gallup Polls. The real application at the website […]

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  Weight Loss Challenges

  05.11.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Weight Loss Challenges

  This entry is sponsored by Recipe Builder, a great tool for meal planning. One of the most popular entries I’ve written this year was on the “secret” to weight loss back at the end of March. The synopsis: the secret is diet and exercise. Given that there was interest in that content, I thought I’d […]

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  Tragedy Trouble

  04.18.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Tragedy Trouble

  The tragedy at Virginia Tech this week is awful. Intellectually, it registers. But for some reason, unlike some other incidents, it’s not registering for me emotionally in any strong way. That bothers me. Have I lost my humanity? Examining the situation I now have a working hypothesis as to why: there is so much suffering, […]

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  Goodbye Kurt

  04.12.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Goodbye Kurt

  This morning there is news that Kurt Vonnegut, esteemed author, has passed away at age 84 due to brain injuries sustained in a fall. Vonnegut was the first “literary” writer I ever felt a pull to read. Everyone will talk about his famous novels, but I preferred his first Player Piano and a zany novel […]

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