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100 free sales leads for every salesperson in your company? Maybe you caught the commercial out of the corner of your eye. I was kicking back, watching the NY Giants battle the Philadelphia Eagles on NBC in glorious HD. It was in the second half, just before the Giants scored. I didn’t catch the […]
Do you use recycled printing paper? If not, why not? I had to take a run out to our local Staples store last night, to pick up a couple of reams of paper and a new toner cartridge for the trusty old LaserJet. It took a good bit of browsing in the paper aisle before […]
The smaller that technology becomes, the easier it is to forget it’s there. Say an iPod. Or a cell phone. How easy is it to forget that you left one of those little critters in a pants pocket? And when you throw those pants onto the wash pile… well… you get the idea.
It’s even worse […]
Winter will soon be upon us, bringing with it the most dreaded of arrivals… those winter heating bills. Here in the northeast, oil is one of the most popular forms of heating. But the cost of heating oil is at a perilous level for many homeowners. The prospects of a winter with $3 per gallon […]
Need to haul around a bunch of folks and a whole lot of gear? Want to do it comfortably and use the minimum amount of fuel? Given thought to using biodiesel? It’s widely accepted that a well engineered diesel engine can produce 30% better fuel mileage than a comparable gasoline engine. Diesel power is a […]
Citizen journalism is one thing. A good thing, even. But institutionalized regurgitation of other blog posts and (worse yet) press releases?
It’s bad… and not in a bad/good way.
Time to coin yet another new word:
Regurgiblog, /reeg-URGE-ehh-BLOG/ noun: a blog post that wraps a mere handful of somewhat original sentences around multiple paragraphs of the widely […]
What do you do when your dishwasher gives notice that it’s ready to head south for the winter? Why you start looking for a new one, of course. The dishwasher here at Rancho Indebto hasn’t packed its bags… yet… but its performance is so abysmal that we’re ready to give it an early ticket out […]