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Entries from June 2008

BOOK REVIEW: The Age Curve by Kenneth Gronbach

June 26th, 2008

The Age Curve: How to Profit from the Demographic Storm (Hardcover)

by Kenneth W. Gronbach
The Age Curve is a book about numbers.  Don’t worry.  The author does the math.
The author Kenneth Gronbach, a proud member of the Baby Boomer generation, outlines the numbers of live births in the US starting from the beginning of the 1900’s [...]

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Wacko Wednesdays: Demographics

June 25th, 2008

My husband Gary and I have a friend (who we haven’t seen in a while) named Dave. We met Dave in college. Dave was a very short and slight guy with a personality bigger than a house. Dave was bubbly and he loved everything and everybody. Besides the incredible penchant [...]

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Wacko Wednesdays: Body Manipulation

June 18th, 2008

(this is a re-write of a post I did back in November of 2007, which was deleted)
Researchers love to look at deviant behavior.  These are the things we do that fall outside the “normal” range of how most people usually act.  Sociology and Psychology scientists eat up odd human behavior like the desert does rain: [...]

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Keepin’ It Real E-Cards

June 16th, 2008

Had fun yesterday on Twitter.  I was asking my Twitterverse if there was any anti American Greetings site with e-cards that were a bit more, how shall we say?  Real?
Lots of my villagers suggested http://someecards.com/ , which does have some great cards.  But they just aren’t raw enough.  Here were some of my suggestions:
PurpleCar: KeepinItReal [...]

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BOOK REVIEW: Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior

June 16th, 2008

Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior
by Ori Brafman and Rom Brafman
Doubleday Business (2008), Hardcover, 224 pages
ISBN: 9780385524382
PurpleCar’s Review:
Have you ever driven through a snowstorm, against all logic, to get to a meeting?  Held onto a tanking stock?  Reading Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior may help you understand why.  An easy read [...]

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Dear Reader.

June 15th, 2008

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Early Adopter Frustrations

June 9th, 2008

New technology has always piqued my interest. I love gadgets and being the first to use new websites and services. It’s cool. But. And there’s always a ‘but.’ Early adoption also brings very frustrating limitations.

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Adam Slaney Facebook Warning: Real or DoS attack?

June 6th, 2008

SUMMARY:  Adam Slaney warning (or the latest one about ‘Richard Peel’) on FaceBook is fake.
Social media has great potential, both good and bad. It can find you help in a hurry or cause you tons of frustration. Today I had to do some investigation to determine if Facebook was the unsuspecting abettor in [...]

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Handwriting on the wall

June 5th, 2008

In response to Spin’s note here.

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