The 2:00 a.m. “Stuck in Portland” Redesign Launch Story

I mentioned in the comments about the redesign that there was a back story to this week’s launch, and I thought I’d share the whole story here for those who are interested. According to the new publication schedule (Mondays and Thursdays for main content), you can also check back tomorrow for a more typical article [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 01:38:16

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Date: 2009-09-26 11:38:43

How to Tell Your Wife You Want To Be Really Spanked!

I’ve spent a lot of time reading everything I can find on F/M spanking relationships. I’ve read a lot of posts by men who are frustrated and don’t know how to tell their wife what it is that they want and crave. So, I decided to write a little F/M Spanking “Primer” from a wife to guys that a guy could copy, edit and print off [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 00:15:32

Presell Secrets X Bonus

Presell Secrets X Bonus Post from: Home Business Reviews "Who Else Wants To Receive Worth Over $1085 In Bonuses For Free When Aquiring Presell Secrets X?"   Discover The TRUTH About Affilo Blueprint Before They Brainwash YOU! Here's The Special Report You Need to Read Before You Even Think of Investing in Affilo Blueprint... [more...]

Date: 2009-09-21 21:08:43

Consumer Credit Counseling

Consumer Credit Counseling January 17, 2009 at 5:00 pm · Filed under Credit Counseling Services div style=’float: right; width: 100px; padding: ... on financed loans and credit card debt can become onerous and when you add in penalties and late fees ... impossible for anyone to compete in today’s arena without the aid of a credit card. And that’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 22:00:36

Bank of Spain urges zero bank profit growth-paper

The Bank of Spain has urged Spanish banks to channel earnings into provisions against soaring bad debts and report near zero profit growth for 2008, ... profits ahead of an expected spike in 2009 defaults following the collapse of Spanish credit and consumer ... like Santander and BBVA. Credit Suisse expects non-performing loans to rise to over 7 percent [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 04:53:21

Comment Spam Fighting Technique

Comment Spam when looked from slightly different perspective can be an indicator of your blog popularity! So I guess we all should rejoice when our SPAM queue filled with dozens of comments from spam-bots. Luckily that is easily killed by simply taking advantage of the options provided by Akismet [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 12:40:31

Young Out in GOP Housecleaning

Young Out in GOP Housecleaning By Ben Pershing Amid the intense focus on two Democrats with ethics problems, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Rep. Charles Rangel (N.Y.), the GOP took a quiet step toward putting its own house in order Wednesday by pushing Rep. Don Young (Alaska) out of a key committee post. Rep Don Young (R-Alaska) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:00:00

Young Out in GOP Housecleaning

Young Out in GOP Housecleaning By Ben Pershing Amid the intense focus on two Democrats with ethics problems, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Rep. Charles Rangel (N.Y.), the GOP took a quiet step toward putting its own house in order Wednesday by pushing Rep. Don Young (Alaska) out of a key committee post. Rep Don Young (R-Alaska) [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:00:00

Gannett Pushes for More Tech Hires, Data Centers, Niche Sites

These are dark days for newspaper companies in the U.S. There are layoffs in print newsrooms, classified ad revenues are dwindling, and readership is shrinking. To combat these trends, Gannett introduced a bold initiative in 2006 to remake its 85 daily newspaper newsrooms into "Information Centers," [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 17:05:13

Lending Club P2P: Review of New Post-SEC Changes, Free $25 Lender Bonus

Now that LendingClub has finished their SEC filing and is one of the only P2P lenders currently operating ( ... you get. Then you can simply compare this rate with your other options - credit cards, home equity loans ... conditions, remember that credit cards can only guarantee 6-12 months of a low rate, and home equity loans [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 14:30:58

Unsurprisingly, Illegal Deported for Armed Robbery Finds NYT in His Corner

A criminal without legal status deported by US immigration officials is the subject of the latest pity party thrown by The New York Times. The Times seems to find it lamentable that this gang member and armed robber was deported from "his homeland" -- that would be the USA -- to Cambodia, the land of his birth ( [more...]

Date: 2008-12-03 12:16:18

How Do Instant Approval Credit Cards Online Work?

Instant approval credit cards online are cards which you can apply online and receive notification via email of the acceptance or denial of the ... , a clean credit history. In certain circumstances, more time would be needed to determine ... credit card, within just few seconds after filling out an online credit card application [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 00:39:56

5 Elementary School Lessons That Can Help You Today

Written on 10/14/2008 by Ali Hale. Ali runs Alpha Student, a blog packed with academic, ... Credit: striatic It's a funny thing about elementary school, many of the lessons learned ... ' seem to neglect every single day. If your current report card would have “could do better” [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 10:41:29

Fair Weather Friends of the Market

It’s hardly a news flash that many people who are widely regarded as lions of the pro-market side have gone over to the dark side in recent months ... and other commentators expressed approval of this blatant piracy? It now appears, I am saddened to report [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 22:46:08

Store Credit Cards: Not The Best Idea

If you shop at department stores or mall clothing stores, you likely know how the transaction will go ... on your purchase. But this discount is subject to credit approval. The merchant runs an instant credit ... an inquiry on your credit report. Credit inquires can kill your credit score. And applying [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 18:58:51

Origin of Rhodes Scholarship, Defending Marconi, Rich Inventors (Apr, 1902)

THE AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIPS AT OXFORD. Probably no will made public in years has attracted so much attention as that of the late Cecil Rhodes. It is characteristic of the man that its provisions should be on such a vast scale as to affect the interests of three continents [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:23:00

Monitoring your brand health - part one.

I have been wanting to tackle this idea again for a little while now, and recently a few thoughts have come together into this two-part blog post ... at the Washington Credit Union League annual convention in Spokane in 2007. Almost a year ago I addressed it again [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:08:19

Subprime Credit Card

by Dan Moskel A sub prime card was designed for those with a low credit score ... out of your card on your credit you should try to keep the balance at roughly 20% of your available credit ... , and charge offs on their credit report. Every card does have different approval requirements but will give [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 07:36:06

Host of Internet Spam Groups Is Cut Off

Host of Internet Spam Groups Is Cut Off The volume of junk e-mail sent worldwide dropped drastically today after a Web hosting firm identified by the computer security community as a major host of organizations allegedy engaged in spam activity was taken offline, according to security firms that monitor spam distribution online [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 15:21:31

200+ Tools for Surviving the Economic Crisis

With Wall Street’s recent decline and the economy in such an uncertain place, many people are fearful of losing their jobs and lifelong investments ... in that it aggregates your different accounts from banks and credit cards, lets you budget and also [more...]

Date: 2008-10-16 22:24:58

Senseless

.fullpost{display:inline;}Everyday no one is spared by reports about children killed by preventable diseases, natural calamities, traffic accidents, ... (i.e. ZTE deal, overpriced rice imports, fertilizer scams, credit programs for the few) that takes [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:29:00

Continental Finance MasterCard - Review

By Dan MoskelThe Continental Finance MasterCard is an unsecured sub prime credit card ... on your credit score. It is still important to remove bad credit items from your credit reports. This card ... as an unsecured account. You also can qualify for a shopping card. We do not suggest these cards because [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 00:37:00

DrumBeat: December 22, 2008

Pemex Oil Output Falls 6.5% to 2.711 Million Barrels a Day (Bloomberg) -- Petroleos Mexicanos, the state-owned oil company, said crude oil output fell 6.5 percent in November from the year-earlier period as production at its Cantarell field declined at a faster-than-expected rate. Production dropped to 2.711 million barrels a day, from 2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 14:01:59

How-to: Programmable logic devices (CPLD)

Complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs) contain the building blocks for hundreds of 7400-serries logic ICs. Complete circuits can be designed on a PC and then uploaded to a CPLD for instant implementation. A microcontroller connected to a CPLD is like a microcontroller paired with a reprogrammable circuit board and a fully [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 02:41:20

Media & Politics

Media & Politics 16-Jan-09 Permanent link to MTA daily media news Outgoing CIA director defends detainee interrogation program (McClatchy) LANGLEY, Va. — Outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden vigorously defended on Thursday the agency’s use of secret prisons and coercive interrogation methods on suspected al Qaida terrorists, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 17:21:21

Free HPK (High Paying Keywords) for AdSense

Googling for the topic of this post can have you looking through subscription and pay sites all day - but we managed to find an actual free list of ... $53.68 bad credit equity loan $53.38 abdominal mesothelioma $52.99 cash settlement $52.98 student loan ... school loan consolidation $76.54 college loan consolidation $74.93 car insurance quotes $74.78 aut [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:12:02

Tales of Customer Service in the PDF World

Not long ago, the good people at our print-on-demand service QOOP alerted me that the PDF of "Take Control of Mac OS X Backups" ... , so I filed a bug report with Dwight Kelly of Apago, including the original file and the corrupt ... forgotten to include in my bug report, Dwight announced that he'd figured out the problem - PDF [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 14:56:02

Observations for Tuesday

WSJ.com reported, “Financial stocks pushed the broader market lower, with Citigroup and Bank of America posting double-digit percentage declines ... , California, also discusses the outlook for the U.S. unemployment rate, Federal Reserve policy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 22:15:30

Resource of the Week: Guide to the Global Economic Crisis

Resource of the Week: Guide to the Global Economic Crisis By Robert J. Tiess, Reference Department, Middletown (NY) ... / Consumer Interest Topics Banking Credit & Debt Energy Housing Crisis / Mortgages / Subprime ... of and report on breaking news, and when the general state of information (on and off the Web) can range [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 10:23:51

51 First Amendment Case Victories since 06/2008. See the last 3 below with a grand slam case victory against Georgia Tech and inspite of the media...

3 more First Amendment Case victories below which now totals 51 since 06/08 see trail of all cases starting here at African American Pro-lifer threatened with 4 years in jail even though witness testified that no use of "force against them, threatened them, or..". Also, see a video report of this Georgia Tech case that you won't [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 16:01:01

Oh, I Feel Safer Already . . .

Guns and their uses are a perennial controversy in the United States. Gun rights advocates do have some serious arguments on their side, among them the moral right of self-defense, and the overall record of reliability and restraint established by legal gun owners [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 23:59:36

Good Times For Resale In California

Reuters reports on California. “Home sales in the San Francisco Bay area rose nearly 39 percent in October from a year earlier and the median home price posted a record fall, a report on Thursday said. The median price paid for all homes in the region fell to $375,000 in October, down 40 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 20:19:16

Instant Credit Card Approval An Ideal Way To Get Credit

For those that are looking for instant credit card approval, why wait until the mail arrives? ... an instant credit card approval online. This allows you to do all of the work on the web, cutting down ... information into the system. Then, the computerized network will pull up a credit report on you, use [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 17:30:09

Free 3 in 1 Report of the Credit - Offers a Good Opinion on Your Ministry of Finance

A land of accentuation and importance is given to know about the score of the credit ... of the loans, the insurance covers and equal credit cards. Farther, to keep informed ... you to maintain a good financial position. a free 3 in 1 the report of the credit is destined precisely [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 09:43:32

How To Quickly Build a Big Subscriber List

This is about email subscribers, not RSS subscribers.  RSS is nice, but it will be awhile before it hits critical mass for most markets ... people would expect to pay for elsewhere.  If people are charging for consulting or courses and sharing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:33:40

Free Instant Credit Report

It used to be that consumers find it hard to access their credit scores. In order for to acquire a copy of their scores, they would have to pay to have credit report data ... include the credit report. This is one of the reasons why consumers are confused most of the time over [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 08:11:36

News and Political Commentary

Obama to Propose Huge Tax Cut: Democratic AideReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan will propose business and middle class tax cuts of about $310 billion dollars, or 40 percent of the package, a senior Democratic aide said on Sunday [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 12:29:00

London Seminars, Dec 6th and 7th, are Sold Out.

UPDATE: The Dec. 6th and 7th Strobist Lighting Seminars in London are sold out. Discussion thread is here. See full post inside for seminar details. Important Note to Email RSS subscribers: If you are reading this via email or RSS, please click through to the main site (click on the headline above) [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 20:00:00

Latest News in Credit Repair and Credit Score - Jan 07, 2009

Maligned Arizona defense strong against Falcons - Columbia Missourian 5 Jan 2009 at 11:42pm TEMPE, Ariz ... credit repair solutions. The new online based company http://www.180creditsolutions.com provides a fast ... Credit Repair Guide Offers Hope for Homeowners - Market Wire 6 Jan 2009 at 1:58am LOS ANGELES, CA [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:39:55

South Korean opposition MPs ready to discuss reforms

South Korean opposition MPs who have paralysed parliament for weeks said on Monday they were ready to discuss bills needed to help the export-driven ... , but analysts said the outlook still depended on developments in global credit markets. The central bank [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 06:48:39

An Online Credit Report is Really Handy

An Online Credit Report is Really Handy If you’re anything like me and don’t necesssarily enjoy waiting around for things then being able to get ... credit report online. All you have to do is sign up with the provider of the report and BAM ... . Another nice thing about using an online credit report provider is that you always have access [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 15:43:21

A Payday Loan At The Right Time

Have you been hearing the advantages of payday loans over and over again? ... the decision of the lender in any way. So even if you have a bad credit history, you need not worry ... Have you seen advertisements telling you how life can be made much simpler with a payday loan [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 09:23:36

Technology's Threat to Human Rights and Free Speech

... than a last ditch effort to repair their tarnished reputations after several high profile cases [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 21:56:47

Ebooks Usage Trends And Statistics - The Springer Report 2008

Are eBooks being adopted? Is eBook usage increasing? Is the Amazon Kindle a total flop? ... _perspective_springer.jpg Photo credit: Springer In the report that follows, Springer has gathered ... among our literature collections. But this is not to say that eBooks will be taking the place [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 09:20:00

Financial innovations: A history of scams

Business StandardFinancial innovations: A history of scamsDevangshu Datta / New Delhi January 17, 2009, 0:22 ISTRamalinga Raju cooked his books - and his goose - but India's history of scams is long and innovative.Until Ramalinga Raju made his confessional statement, his 2009 travel calendar had "Davos" marked on it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 10:33:00

Financial innovations: A history of scams

Business StandardFinancial innovations: A history of scamsDevangshu Datta / New Delhi January 17, 2009, 0:22 ISTRamalinga Raju cooked his books - and his goose - but India's history of scams is long and innovative.Until Ramalinga Raju made his confessional statement, his 2009 travel calendar had "Davos" marked on it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 10:33:00

Financial innovations: A history of scams

Business StandardFinancial innovations: A history of scamsDevangshu Datta / New Delhi January 17, 2009, 0:22 ISTRamalinga Raju cooked his books - and his goose - but India's history of scams is long and innovative.Until Ramalinga Raju made his confessional statement, his 2009 travel calendar had "Davos" marked on it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 10:33:00

Financial innovations: A history of scams

Business StandardFinancial innovations: A history of scamsDevangshu Datta / New Delhi January 17, 2009, 0:22 ISTRamalinga Raju cooked his books - and his goose - but India's history of scams is long and innovative.Until Ramalinga Raju made his confessional statement, his 2009 travel calendar had "Davos" marked on it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 10:33:00

Financial innovations: A history of scams

Business StandardFinancial innovations: A history of scamsDevangshu Datta / New Delhi January 17, 2009, 0:22 ISTRamalinga Raju cooked his books - and his goose - but India's history of scams is long and innovative.Until Ramalinga Raju made his confessional statement, his 2009 travel calendar had "Davos" marked on it [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 10:33:00

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