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Although my Dad passed away eighteen years ago, a day doesn’t go by without my thinking of him. Dad was ill for virtually the last decade of his life, but memory has been much kinder than the disease which took him: my most vivid remembrances are all from happier times. …playing catch in the road [...]
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Traveling back to Albany for a few days to see family and friends… back on Tuesday. Everyone have a great weekend! In the meantime, here’s one of my favorite TED talks; Sir Ken Robinson on schools and creativity:
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Thanks to everyone who’s downloaded one or more of the files on the FREE Downloads page – I hope you’ve found this information helpful. We’ll surpass 5,000 downloads sometime today, which is especially gratifying. This is something I started last year as a service to my readers, and I will continue to add files each [...]
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As I imagine the case is with many beginning bloggers, I frankly didn’t have a clear path and vision for Practical Hacks when I began blogging. My initial thought was to focus on lifehacks-oriented topics and perhaps marketing issues. For the first 8-10 months the blog in fact was geared to posts focused on shortcuts, [...]
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Continue reading about The next step: A major project & potential second blog
Without a doubt, the most gratifying thing about blogging is getting feedback from readers and reading your comments. I often find that a post is merely a starting point. Reader comments expand, amplify and sometimes challenge my thoughts, and help develop the story; I can’t imagine this blog without your contributions. After all, if I [...]
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Nine days ago one of my subscribers emailed me and said he was getting malware warnings when attempting to visit this site. I responded with something insightful like, “aarrggghhhh. Hope it’s a fluke.” I wasn’t seeing any such warnings with either IE or Firefox and hoped (forgive me, Michael) it was just a problem with [...]
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Practical Hacks has been cleared by Google! Gone are the notices warning that the site is harboring malignant, life-as-we-know-it-is-about-to-end software. The last 7 days have been interesting to say the least… this site was somehow hacked or otherwise compromised and it took me a couple of days to figure out how to get rid of [...]
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Continue reading about Site has been cleared!! …we’re back in business!
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