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Entries from August 2008

Google Page Rank: Friend or Foe

November 28th, 2007 ·

As a website owner, I have always had the Google toolbar installed so that I could watch my page ranks and compare them to other sites. But I’ve never been overly concerned about it.  Now that I am also a blogger, it appears that I should be paying more attention.
I’m going to start really basic […]

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Tags: Technology

hhgregg and Their Thanksgiving Snafu

November 22nd, 2007 ·

I have to admit that I don’t pay much attention to print ads. My focus is online shopping. But my husband caught a good one today. In the Thanksgiving Day newspaper in Indianapolis, hhgregg had a beautiful color circular. They were advertising everything from televisions to appliances to GPS units.
Which brings us to the snafu. […]

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Tags: Shopping

Toys To Buy Someone Else’s Kid (Not Your Own) for Christmas

November 20th, 2007 · 6 Comments

I’d like to start off by saying right off the bat that I am not a stick-in-the-mud. I’m a fun mom. Really, I am. Right?
That having been said, let’s get to the heart of the issue at hand–It’s almost Christmas time and the issue of toys is on everyone’s minds. What do you get your […]

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Tags: Family

How Sports Impact My Mood

November 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I don’t really play sports, but I love to watch. In particular, I am a huge fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now, I consider myself to be a reasonably normal, rational person. (Others might disagree.) But when I watch the Steelers, I become a CRAZY person! Not just my actions during the game, but how I […]

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Tags: Family

My Home “Office”

November 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Working from home for the last 10 years, I have always had a dedicated home office. A room with a door that has a real desk (albeit cheap), a roller chair, filing cabinets, etc.
And yet, I go through phases where I work for days on end in any room in the house EXCEPT my home […]

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Tags: General