RichC | April 30, 2009
Since I’ve posted a couple times about the online “web-video aggregator” Hulu.com, the latest news that Disney has reached a deal to buy a significant share of the company and put full episodes of its ABC TV shows on the site is pretty big news. The advantage for Hulu is that Disney will invest capital [...]
Category: Entertainment, Financial, Video-TV |
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Tags: abc, disney, hulu
RichC | April 30, 2009
While adding a new Twitter feature call Tweetmeme (see retweet button at bottom of post), I stumbled across an interesting statistic compiled by Nielsen which concludes that 60% of Twitter Users Quit within the First Month, at least that is how Mashable writer Pete Cashmore sees it. I’m not sure how that stacks up to [...]
Category: Computer, Social Networking |
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Tags: mashable, nielsen, tweetmeme, twitter
RichC | April 29, 2009
Have you ever need to get a group together and try to schedule the best time for a meeting or conference call? If so, you know what a pain this can be sending emails or making phone calls to everyone.
Try this simple, innovated and FREE website service next time you’re faced with finding “When is [...]
Category: How-To, Productivity |
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Tags: d-link, Productivity, skype, webpick
RichC | April 28, 2009
An article in our local paper highlighted the Golden Lamb restaurant and hotel in historic Lebanon, Ohio this week. It has been in business for75,000 consecutive days. That’s long enough to have seen a civil war, two world wars and 40 presidents. The celebration on April 27th marked the 206 years of business for [...]
Category: History, Local, News |
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Tags: golden lamb, lebanon, pulse journal
RichC | April 27, 2009
View H1N1 Swine Flu in a larger map
H1N1 Swine flu in 2009
Pink markers are suspect
Purple markers are confirmed
Deaths lack a dot in marker
Yellow markers are negative
The Swine Flu pandemic, believed to have started in Mexico, is showing up around the world as the WHO and U.S. CDC is doing their best [...]
Category: Health, News |
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Tags: cdc, flu, pandemic, swine, who
RichC | April 26, 2009
The weather being as nice as it has been this weekend had me toting around my camera. One of the items showing change as been the gazebo which is now sporting a new roof. The progress has been slow (in my opinion), but I’m glad to see it coming along.
Strong 70+ mph winds do damage [...]
Category: Misc, Photos |
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Tags: efe, gazebo
RichC | April 25, 2009
Occasionally I enjoy looking at archived posts from the previous year, or even several years ago by clicking on links in the right hand side bar’s “Years ago on this day“ list. It is surprising how fast 4 years have gone by? It was in April 2005 that I moved my paper journal to a [...]
Category: How-To, Personal |
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Tags: anniversary, blog, garden, idea
RichC | April 25, 2009
I’ve posted a couple times (1 & 2) before on Terrafugia’s Transition experimental airplane/car and wanted to include a little video from the Tampa Fox affiliate taken at the Sun ‘n Fun airshow in Landland Florida. A group of students from M.I.T. developed a two-seat aircraft that can take off and land at small airports [...]
Category: Automotive, Aviation |
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Tags: airplane, Aviation, experimental, transistion
RichC | April 24, 2009
A couple guys on their way to the popular spring aviation event called Sun ‘n Fun in Lakeland Florida had a interesting landing after an engine failure. Pilot, and flight instructor Kyle Davis along with his friend and passenger, a professional videographer, left Winter Haven on there way to Lakeland Florida. It was just a [...]
Category: Aviation |
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