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Entries from March 2007

Living with rats

March 26th, 2007 · 3 Comments

One of the things that intrigued me most about the rat infestation of a New York KFC restaurant was reading about Robert Corrigan, the expert that was brought in to help clean up the mess. Corrigan (from nearby Richmond, IN) has been called “the Elvis of the pest control world” for the research he’s [...]

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Another VPC image for running IE6 and IE7

March 22nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

I’ve written before about using a Virtual PC image to run IE6 and IE7 on the same machine. The old image was set to expire on April 1st, but Microsoft has released another image that will last until July 23rd.
I’m also happy about this because I recently installed Windows updates within the old image [...]

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Firefox session restore

March 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments

I think I set a record today. My computer started acting sluggish, and I came to find out that Firefox was taking up 465M of memory. And on a machine with “only” 1G of RAM.

It’s a good thing that Firefox 2 has that session restore feature that saves your work when you need [...]

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Jenerous interview

March 19th, 2007 · 3 Comments

I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Eric Mattson for Jenerous (formerly called marketingmonger) this morning. If you haven’t heard of Jenerous, I definitely recommend checking it out. Eric started the project last year in an effort to interview 1,000 “leading marketers, entrepreneurs and other interesting people”. It’s a great undertaking, [...]

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Buffett doing what he loves every day

March 19th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m a big admirer of Warren Buffett. Not just because he’s a wildly successful businessman by any measure, but because he’s so down to earth, practical, and maintains a high standard of integrity.
I recently watched an interview/documentary on CNBC about Buffett, and I recommend it for anyone who’s even mildly interested in learning [...]

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