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Buy from locally owned, independent businesses - Keep Portland Maine Independent

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

Buy Local - Keep Portland Maine Independent: portlandbuylocal.org
The Portland Buy Local campaign has been developed by business owners and citizens in an effort to educate the public about the importance of supporting Portland’s locally owned, independent businesses.
We believe the Portland Buy Local campaign is critical to our community and our way of life. Locally owned, [...]

very obnoxious old house

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

I just subscribed to This Old House Magazine online and was greeted with this message after I checked out.
Subscriber’s Automatic Renewal Program:
You authorize This Old House Magazine to charge your credit/debit card or your PayPal account at the price above now and in time to renew your This Old House subscription, without interruption, before the [...]

How to do the Math with Google Earth Pallete Icons

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

How to do the Math with Google Earth Pallete Icons. How to select icons for your Google Earth map.

iFirstAid: First Aid Advice Online via Your iPod

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

First Aid Advice Online with iFirstAid
Audio files of basic First Aid techniques. Knowing what to do can make the difference to a person’s recovery, and you could even save their life.

The stupid West Side stadium (from kottke.org)

Wednesday, April 27th, 2005

The stupid West Side stadium (from kottke.org)
The stupid West Side stadium
Amen. What a waste of good space. Plenty of room to build apartments to house all the creative types (who give the city the flavor that makes it great) who are being squeezed out by the investment banker types and rent decontrolling.

My Son, the iPod

Thursday, March 31st, 2005

http://weblogs.jupiterresearch.com/analysts/gartenberg/archives/007140.html

A Policy Against Folly

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

1) It will be the policy of this institution for all persons to apply the following steps to self-filter all communications and/or work-product that other human beings will see and/or interact with in any way:

Do good, conscientious work.
Think about other people who might be impacted by your work.
Make fixes to the work so that [...]

Hello

Friday, February 4th, 2005

Thanks to RD for guiding me into the proper blogging software. Would have taken his advice to use MT, but my ISP has Fantastico (that comes with cPanel) and it installs WordPress (and a couple of others) with the push of a button.