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The Looming Tower

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

A week or so ago, I posted about postponing reading The Looming Tower to regain perspective and equilibrium.

While I’m taking deep breaths, Dale Barnett has read the book and has good things to say about it.

I’ll get to it next week.

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New eBook Available: B16 Quotes

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

You can download a FREE pdf ebook containing quotes from Pope Benedict XVI with accompanying photographs by me either through a button in the righthand rail at Vitamin B16 or from the eBooks subsection of the factual reports section of my personal website.

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Back from a Location Shoot

Wednesday, August 30th, 2006

I’m just back from a trip to San Gabriel to take photographs on the grounds of the mission:

Old Mission Church in San Gabriel, California; photo: cehwiedel

This is the south entrance to the old mission church. A modern church, used by the parish and schools, is out-of-frame to the right.

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This Week’s Carnival of the Capitalists is Up!

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Hosted by David Daniels at Business & Technology Reinvention.

Here are the first three posts that made me click:

  • The first-click-through award goes to Matt Inglott for “Is Your Website a Money Maker or Money Pit?” because I am working hard this year on making my website at least break even. It will be close. This post provides solid information to apply.
  • The second-click-through award goes to Jeannie Bauer at Bouncing Back for “7 Tip Offs that Politics Run Rampant in Your Company” because everybody work’s at Dilbert’s company, and avoiding The Pointy-Haired Boss is a Useful Life Skill™. (I especially like Tip #7.)
  • The one-more-before-the-door award goes to Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World for “Blog SEO: Higher search engine rankings tip” because not only is his suggestion immediately and easily usable, it’s effective. (I have a similar post — on static webpage titles — waiting to be edited and posted. Great minds run in similar circles.)

As always, there are more posts than I have listed. Click through and see them for yourself!

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Public School Infrastructure

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Today’s deadtree edition of the Wall Street Journal has an article about rotting public school buildings, using academically gifted Thomas Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, as Exhibit A.

The article disappointed because there was no investigation of why Fairfax County is so strapped for maintenance funds that renovation for Thomas Jefferson won’t happen for another five years.

Public schools get boatloads of money. Where’s the money going?

Apparently not into building maintenance.

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