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TRUE CONFESSIONS
I stole the graphic that Rob has described. It just fit so well with this post. I followed the Radio Docs instructions about placing pictures. After getting the picture saved in the proper folder beneath the www folder, I started trying to insert the image in my post so that the text would be to the right of the picture. No luck. All my text is below the picture. If someone has broken the code on how to do this correctly with Radio, I'd sure love to know! Thanks.
7:06:42 PM 
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VACATIONS AREN'T FOR RECOVERING FROM RECENT HARD WORK
They're for preparing for the hard work to come! Enjoy the respite!!
Whether bothered about the war, the economy, domestic events, political infighting or merely the routine of everyday life, the American people will snap out of the doldrums. We always have and we will continue to do so. When we do, we can help improve life for others globally.
MALAISE? A while back, Steven Chapman noted a certain lassitude around the Blogosphere. Now Andrew Sullivan is saying more or less the same thing, only with regard to society at large.
Well, there's less happening on a day-to-day basis than there was in the fall, which translates into less adrenaline and more cortisol, I suppose. My guess is that things will pick up again soon enough. Instead of worrying about the current pace of events, I'd advise taking advantage of it. It's not likely to last. [InstaPundit]
5:52:56 PM
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FEW CAN BE AS SPECIFIC
about how they arrive at business decisions. Sure, there's "do the right thing." There's also management by bestseller. There are all the new fads that guide some business people. I once worked for a "new-ager" who I honestly believe got his business decisions from viewing the clouds. When you deal with someone who has given principles such as these some forethought, you can do business on a handshake!
These are principles I try to follow. # [John Henry on Business]
5:38:26 PM
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FAIR WARNING
Whether President Bush was telegraphing what Israel is about to do or whether he was sending a message to all the other extremist idiots, I think his selection was a master stroke. When the President of the globe's most powerful nation starts quoting verses like this one, it sounds an awful lot like fair warning to me!
Weird Ending to Bush’s Interesting Mideast Speech: Here’s the final paragraph of an address that, among other things, calls for new Palestinian elections (and leaders) by the end of this year:
The choice here is stark and simple, the Bible says, "I have set before you life and death, therefore choose life." The time has arrived for everyone in this conflict to choose peace and hope and life. 06/24/2002 02:17 PM [Matt Welch's Warblog]
5:30:03 PM
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$25 MILLION SAYS THIS DOESN'T REMAIN TRUE
No one of repute can confirm it even now!
Al-Qaida: bin Laden Still Alive. Osama bin Laden and his No. 2 man are both alive and well and their al-Qaida network is ready to attack new U.S. targets, bin Laden's spokesman said in audiotaped remarks aired Sunday. The message also claimed responsibility for a deadly April fire at a Jewish synagogue in Tunisia. [AP World News]
5:11:42 PM
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ARE MAJOR OPPORTUNITIES RETURNING?
Microsoft plans sales force expansion. The software giant will broaden its sales force by adding 450 positions, its largest expansion in a decade, as it tries to better target specific industries. [CNET News.com]
5:07:40 PM
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LEARNING SOMETHING NEW - ANTITRUST LAW
ANTITRUST WITHOUT NAIVETE: My most recent NYT column looks at the importance of considering "transaction cost economics" before assuming that unusual firm structures or contracts are anticompetitive and launching antitrust crusades against them. Since I explain what TCE is in the column, I won't repeat myself here. Paul Joskow's paper, which inspired the column, can be downloaded from his website. Because there was so much background to explain, I had to give Joskow's article short shrift, and I recommend reading it—particularly if you have an interest in antitrust law. Unlike some of the math-filled articles I write about, it's not technical, and you'll get an interesting overview of how economics and antitrust policy have interacted over the past several decades. [Posted 6/24.] [Virginia Postrel's blog]
4:37:04 PM
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THE CURE FOR AN AILING NEWS AGGREGATOR
is something resembling 21st century computing power. I'm guilty of trying to milk too much life from an old laptop. Lawrence Lee helped me identify its lack of speed and performance as a possible culprit in my recent news aggregator problem. So, maybe a new HP notebook is just the ticket. This is an incredibly broad announcement by HP - reminscent of the number of products that would make it into a single announcement 10 years ago.
TechXNY: HP to install public WLANs. Company also releases new notebooks [InfoWorld: Top News]
4:22:05 PM
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STILL PREFER THE RSS FEED AND THE NEWS AGGREGATOR
This tool seems like a decent stop-gap measure while we're waiting on all of our favorite weblogs to get RSS feeds.
Get Fresh. Three talented individuals from the DFW crowd have struck gold again and put together a great tool for tracking your weblog reading list based on freshness. [meryl's notes]
3:41:37 PM
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© Copyright 2002 Steve Pilgrim.
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