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UPDATE: shortText.com has removed the content and redirected it to my site which is very decent of them.  They reiterated they make no claims to the ownership of the material and it is user generated.  On second glance and due to the speedy response it seems that they have a nifty website, with a few [...]

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The Issue
This week I plan on covering a common practice in the retail environment. This problem is sometimes called stockpiling or “pulling”. “Pulling” is when a retailer will pull certain items from the store shelves and hold them in the back of the store until the beginning of an ad. This is common with many [...]

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Last night we “camped” out at Walmart with Toby for a Wii.  After an hour and a half the assistant manager who was very nice rolled out a cart of 20 Wii (or Wiis?) and the checkout began.  My wife and I stayed up til about 2 playing Wii sports and we are heading out [...]

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I just got this flyer in my mail!
There is no number of units promised, an states no rainchecks so it could be all for nothing. Let me know if you get a Wii this wiikend. Good Luck!

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If your current theme is spitting out nonsense such as placing your links outside the actual sidebar after upgrading to Wordpress 2.1 You may need to replace the code that calls for the links. Below I have the code you see running on the sidebar to the right. The only downside is that it [...]

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A classmate of mine sent me a Link to his Brother-in-law’s science fiction drawings from the 1970’s side by side with scenes from George Lucas’s Star Wars. The resemblance is striking. I believe at some point in the past a settlement was offered but not taken. I have just a few examples [...]

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This is a welcome post to Wordpress 2.1 which contains a lot of new features and improved aesthetics. Some of the notable additions include spell checking, auto draft save as well as others. Right now when I spell check though I get false as the suggestion so I don’t know if that needs [...]

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What has happened to the truth in advertising standards? Simply adding a * into your ad copy should not remove your company from the responsibility of telling the truth.
The two most recent blatant lies I have seen are form Dominos and Listerine.
Dominos is currently running a $9.99 Anything goes deal which features “Any Large [...]

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Check out some crazy car crashes in Portland.

Enjoy!

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Here’s to hoping I don’t get a letter from the Apple Legal Team.
These directions should allow you to have a today screen similar to the iPhone. I found Wisbar Advance to be helpful in displaying all kinds of information. The process is easy and only the tweaking at the end takes a little [...]

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