1-800-Free411: Welcome
Well not quite free, someone has to pay, and its advertising supported. In a nutshell, you listen to a short ad, and they may play a fast one, and recommend a competitor who advertises with them rather than the one you ask for. I have yet to use it, but next time I need [...]

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An interesting concept, cant the drive wheels 30 degrees and keep the center of mass below the center of gravity. Considering this was a design from over 23 years ago its pretty cool.
http://www.smallrobot.com/why.html
I recieved some info from Robonexus. The big conference is coming up shortly. It looks like it would be pretty cool to attend, [...]

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was a question from the Book of Joe.
Organic food is big business, and the financial incentives and marketing propaganda are huge. Then add in a lack of regulation and its an open free for all. There are those with the tinfoil hats, who view organic food almost to the point of a relgion. Its the [...]

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According to Book of Joe, Target will began selling http://www.summitenvironmental.com/ fire extinguishing agent in an aerosol can. Wow, that is super cool, and knowing its now in the consumer realm its gotta be pretty cheap as well.
I’ve been in a few fires over the years, and inevtiably have had to use dry chem. The first [...]

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I would have thought things would be better this time around. Nope, just different. Fortunately the hurriance did not hit the Houston or Galveston area. I saw this posting earlier today from a guy in TX.
I live NE of Houston—-left my house at 10:30 AM —traveled 2 1/2 hours due east on State 105—due to [...]

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Its interesting how much of New Orleans S&R was handled by spontaneous volunteers, even the news media. Even the most ardent govt official will admit that the absolute first response is going to be done by spontaneous volunteers, rather than trained volunteers or even professionals. Disasters are a logistical nightmare to start with, and there [...]

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I don’t know how many times I have been asked “who is a good drop shipper”, with no other criteria. Are they good with reliability/availability, discounts, volume requirements, blanket orders, or even credit terms. Good has many definitions…. asking the wrong question, will often times get a wrong answer.
Another question I get asked, “where [...]

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Don Bell has an interesting blog article on ecommerce sites, many of which imho are doomed to failure. Some folks believe in boosting their shipping costs in order to make money, rather than doing so on the product. Don’s not thrilled with that concept, and neither am I.
The lost cost of entry to ecommerce often [...]

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Its been a while since I updated the blog software… Blogcms does not run under Fantastico, and its been quite a while since I upgraded. The good news, is that the install, and migration of files went pretty well. I still have some maintenance issues and links to fix, but am very pleased. One of [...]

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Neuros: Forums
This is cool, the president of the company asking for feedback on new products, and his wish to be non-proprietary. Of course, they also have the firmware pretty open as well.
Check out the forum… he gets heat once in a while too… I wonder how many other execs are willing to put their rear [...]

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