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Has the Public Library Killed Book Publishers?

Has the Public Library Killed Book Publishers?

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As I was in the local public library picking up a little something to read on Saturday, I realized there was an interesting parallel between that and Internet file sharing. What does the library do after all; it loans books for free to people.  The same books which both publishers and authors base their entire commercial livelihood.  Thus if the picture the music industry draws of the dire future for music if file sharing is allowed continue were really a…

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Special Moments

Special Moments

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Nothing beats the joys of parenthood.  Absolutely nothing… For example: Darling daughter #1(dd#1)  throws a box of crayons into my wife’s brand new (under 2 weeks) dryer machine.  Wife has nervous breakdown.  I spend the rest of the night chiseling crayon out of the drum with a screwdriver. I get down to Washington on a business trip to find my books were removed from my suit case and replaced with a few well chosen Webkinz. I call home from Washington and…

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Alligator Bait

Alligator Bait

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“When you’re up to your ass in alligators, just stop a moment and ask yourself why you decided to drain the swamp in the first place.” – Lyndon B. Johnson Thinking outside the box, now might be a good time for me to start a new business in alligator skin accessories.  The last couple weeks have been *that* busy.  We launched a new set of servers for the Splitcoaststampers.com site last week, and as with all things on massive sites…

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Random Summer Thoughts

Random Summer Thoughts

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I’m so busy I forgot to book my summer vacation until yesterday.  Apparently the kids go back to school a week earlier than I thought so I will be off the week of the 17th.   Which I hadn’t planned…so let me know if you have some cool, cheap, ideas for New England summer fun with kids. Even with baseball, I’m gonna admit, it hasn’t felt like summer to me.  Where has that skin scorching heat been? Some times those…

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What to do if you’re Splogged

What to do if you’re Splogged

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(Disclosure: I am not a lawyer.  If you need real legal advice to fight copyright theft, find a real lawyer…don’t go by what I say.) The call came in this morning via Twitter: “Hey – Someone stole a friends WP blog content and put the content on another domain. What option exist to stop this?!” It’s a common occurrence with WordPress blogs to have your content grabbed by a “Splogger” or spam blogger. Wikipedia: Spam blogs are usually a type…

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A Month Without Blogging…

A Month Without Blogging…

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Not my personal choice, but more a relection on how utterly busy I have been.  Some great stuff going on, some not so great, but such is the natural progression of life. I have an interesting comment from my 11 yo daughter Madison on my about page: “hi, dad! Whats up? So……can I have an account for All Things Cahill,or the family website,pretty please with 100,000,000,000,000 CHERRYS on top.” My first knee jerk reaction was pretty much what you’d expect…then…

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The Fun Continues…

The Fun Continues…

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  I got in my truck to go to the office Monday morning and tthe brake pedal went to the floor.  Very lucky to have had it happen there, rather than on the road.  The mechanic described it as a “catastrophic rear brake failure” which required replacement of all the rear brake components.   A few random observations: Rss becoming even more important to the interoperability of websites and content tools. I’ve got 5 separate projects for different sites, all…

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Something Wonderful is About to Happen…

Something Wonderful is About to Happen…

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Okay, maybe not wonderful.  But did want to post and explain that I’ve been too busy to post for the past week, and later today, you’ll probably see why.  If I can get the stuff I need to do done, if nothing else breaks, if the creek don’t rise…etc.  Your mileage may vary, not available in all shapes and colors.