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27 January 2012
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25 January 2012
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24 January 2012
I think I am addicted to shoe shines. I hardly ever used to get them, but now feel off when my shoes are not shiny ;( -
23 January 2012
are there 'crowd-sourced' sites where kids can post their work, especially in ELA to understand where their peers are? -
22 January 2012
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Category Archives: Personal
book covers for home libraries
I’ll come back to this, but let me just say, do not do it for me – do it for the children. I like books. I really like physical books. I like having them, I like holding them. I do not … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Kindle, book, Book cover, Business, E-book, Publishing, Shopping
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Organizer for Gmail | OtherInbox
Seems like a nice and useful idea, but I am too weary of letting another company – with very opaque terms of service read through my email and know what I have bought where, and for how much. Organizer for … Continue reading
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Disney Releases Marvel App – NYTimes.com
Can this work as a gift? How do you wrap it? Unveil it? Disney, the largest publisher of children’s books in the world, sells 700 million items a year in 85 countries, said Russell Hampton Jr., the president of Disney … Continue reading
Phrase of the day
Thought this was a well-captured multi-level pop reference, “[Kim Kardashian]… Sources said a marriage-malfunctioned reality star…” From NY Post page 6. Share this:Share
Random thought – on relationships
The person from my old [old, old] life in Soviet Union I communicate the most with is not someone I was close with before. It is someone who I reconnected with, a little, because of the work I do in … Continue reading
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Photos: St. Petersburg Dam
As weather channel was predicting 20′-30′ rise in water level during Hurricane Irine around NYC, I was thinking, would not it be nice to have a dam that would protect the city from just such a storm surge? Just days … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Photography
Tagged Dam, Gulf of Finland, Russia, Saint Petersburg
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There is a metaphor in there somewhere…
My Dear Daughter (DD)Â is very serious about collecting money. Right now it is for books, but that is not really important. In one of her musings she wrote, “I hope tooth fairy brings me $5, or may be $8, then … Continue reading
A review of Mia and the Migoo
A few weeks ago I went with my Dad to the children’s film festival. We saw ‘Mia and the Migoo’. It was pretty scary but it all ended well. Mia is the girl in the movie. She is searching for her father, … Continue reading
Looking for feedback for @startupweekend #swnyc
Our team is building a platform for helping people achieve their goals. We want to know if our approach – using social networks, accurate and convenient tracking of progress, combined with SHAME through TRANSPARENCY and REWARD of PERSISTENCE make sense. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business, Social network, Startup Weekend
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Online surveys – how not to do them
I get asked to answer a lot of online surveys, and usually ignore them. Once in a while a product I like will ask me to fill out a survey – and I will agree. Most of the time I … Continue reading
