Houston Memories

When you start to measure years in decades, that’s when you realize that a lot has happened when you weren’t paying attention.
Driving around Houston recently, I’ve realized how much the city has changed through various events that the city has experienced through the years.  My mom lives in the same yellow house that she’s lived [...]

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Amazon’s “Search Inside” Feature

For books with this option, you can view a concordance and text stats!  INTERESTING!  I’m not sure how useful that is… But…  INTERESTING!

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Opt In or Opt Out? Phone Books Revisited

I knew I couldn’t be the only one mad about this wasteful and useless product:
-  Blog – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anya-strzemien/how-to-stop-the-phone-boo_b_84773.html
- Another blog – http://www.commoncraft.com/how-stop-receiving-phone-books-and-yellow-pages
- Petition – http://www.paperlesspetition.org/ 
- Opt in versus opt out – http://blog.kelseygroup.com/index.php/2007/11/20/should-publishers-embrace-opt-out/
On another note, my driver’s license used to have a place where I could opt in to be an organ donor…  What happened to [...]

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“Update your contact information, and we’ll plant a tree.”

What?  If I don’t update my info, you won’t plant that tree???
End of day 2.  5 phone books still sitting outside…

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More Phone Books

So…  FIVE more phone books in the vicinity of my front door…
1 random one – I have yet to bend down to pick it up…  Partly because I don’t know if it’s mine or my neighbor’s, but more because I just really don’t want it.
4 behemoths for me and my 3 neighbors.  All four of [...]

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