This weekend I was tasked with getting a new microwave for my kitchen above the stove. One of those all-in-one exhaust / microwave units. I have new GE appliances in the kitchen, so after looking at the Home Depot in my office’s parking lot, I found that a pretty good unit was between [...]

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The blogosphere continues to grow and expand at an ever increasing rate, as does the number of new ‘writers,’ ‘journalists,’ and new breed of individuals who like to sit at home, in their pajamas, sipping coffee and scanning thousands of rss feeds daily and posting away.

You know, kinda like me! Well, times are continuing to develop more symbols of recognition, network affiliation and other points of reference to assist site vistors with signs of credibility. With so much to read these days, it helps when a simple symbol can lend at least some guidance, like movie and game ratings.

Well, now I wanna be a ‘SOB.’ Ahem, yes, I wanna be a ‘SOB.’ Stumbling along the site of ‘Successful Blog’ with the lovely host Liz Strauss, vis-a-vis some other site I can’t even recall at this time, I became instantly interested in what the site has to offer.

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Patents are continuing to cause people to scratch their heads and say, “that’s patentable?” MetroPCS, a regional cellular Verizon MVNO. With their unlimited pricing, and all-you-can-eat rate plan within their regional markets, they somehow secured a patent on such – now competing regional carriers Cricket and Leap want to offer the same service, and say they are suffering damage and irreparable injury. Are they serious?

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Fedex Kinko’s, after undertaking a year long study, have completed a new store layout that will actually cost half of the current layout’s construction cost, and provide better customer service and convenience.

The company expects to open 200 of the new centers nationwide by June 2007. FedEx Kinko’s Office and Print Services, Dallas, has locations in 11 countries. The centers are about one-third the size of a traditional store. They feature twice the number of office products, such as business papers and writing instruments, as well as new technology offerings such as DVD media, thumb drives and mobile phone accessories.

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Long known for it’s continuing series of prison surviving, detection avoidance and child torture, it seems WikiHow has collaborated with Northwest on a recent manual handed out to soon-to-be-terminated employees, offering great words of inspiration, like this tip about how to save money and how exactly to start “Preparing for a Financial Setback.”

Yes, I said trash.