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Archive for February, 2008

As the world gets smaller

Posted by admin on February 25th, 2008

It’s fun when the posts just come right to you.   Seems to happen to me a lot when I am driving, although this was a first for me.
I needed gas on my commute home.  So I stopped at a 76 station just off the freeway, sidled up to the one armed bandit, and got out [...]

Come Home to Roostsm?

Posted by admin on February 19th, 2008

So the blogosphere has been lighting up with references to the recent launch of Roostsm. It has been quite interesting to read the reactions to the product on many levels.
Having played some small part in helping to bring this product to market, I thought I would make an effort to give a description of the [...]

Short Sales - one in five?

Posted by admin on February 18th, 2008

I found this somewhat remarkable. Of the detached homes on the MLS at the moment nearly 20% are short sales of one sort or another.
Nearly 1 in 5. That is some pretty powerful math. Are you tired of dodging the short sale opportunities because there are too many potential pitfalls?
My association, CCAR now offers a [...]

Dollars and Adsense

Posted by admin on February 5th, 2008

 
So I am setting up adsense for the first time. Adsense is google’s program to allow folks with websites to embed ads on the page and get paid for clicks from that page. The content of the page typically delivers ad results from a particular category, in this case presumably real estate.
I am [...]

This is undeniably cool. It is not like most of us haven’t experienced a web conference on some level… but not something on this scale. According to their website announcement:
“Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world. Singularity is over 100 of the world’s top web visionaries, developers, designers, [...]

Hey Bill, thanks but no thanks

Posted by admin on February 2nd, 2008

Mr Gates,
first, thanks for Vista. I am singularly unimpressed and should have known better. Which brings me to my much larger point.
Please stop trying to squash the Open Source Software movement with your economic clout. You produce software like the government produces corruption; there is a lot of it, it all looks [...]