Author: Sage
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Sage The Web Marketer
I happen to know something about this whole $250,000 tax issue debate. That’s almost exactly how much money I made last year in profit. Watch this video if you want an unvarnished assessment of what it’s like being a small business owner who makes $250,000. [youtube]Gxg9WyRfc9Y[/youtube]
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Hotels for Disney 2009
So, we are getting ready for our 2nd trip to Disney World with Indy. He has spring break from April 3 to April 11. We are thinking of being at Disney from April 5 (Sunday) through April 11 (Saturday). This time we are thinking of trying a hotel out of the park. I’m finding that…
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Infocus X1 Settings
I was rereading this post: Xbox 360 infocus X1, how to get HDTV [Text View] – AVS Forum I am trying these settings for movies: Contrast 65Brightness 45R 74G 77B 74 I think I likie.
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On Buddhism For Me
The goal of the teachings of Buddhism is to become less ATTACHED to things that are IMPERMANENT. Move toward love, happiness and compassion. Move away from suffering. Everything that goes up comes down. Everything that lives dies. Everything that succeeds fails. You get what you give. The one desire you want to commit to is…
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From some economist on the radio
Action without information is fanatical.Information without action is frustration.
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A Really Great Guy I Met This Week
I was down in Columbus Ohio for the Small Business Marketing Unleashed Conference. It’s a great conference that I totally love being at. One of the people I met was John Tuggle. This is his site:Online Guitar Lessons, Slide Guitar Blues Lessons | Learning Guitar Now He sells blues guitar lesson dvd’s and downloads. He…
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T. Boone Pickens at the National Press Club
I couldn’t rip myself away from the screen as I watched T. Boone Pickens at the National Press Club. Here are some quotes from that speech that stood out to me: I don’t care who you meet, you’ll never meet someone who’s drilled more dry holes than me. Anything is better than foreign oil for…
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Old Trail School – Headmaster: John Farber
Involvement in extra curriculars is a leading indicator of success after high school.
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Quotes From Joe Biden
“Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your books and I’ll tell you what you value.” “The measure of success is not how many times you get knocked down, it’s how quick you get up.”
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Me and Joe Biden at the Football Hall of Fame Rally
Joe Biden Football Hall of Fame Rally, originally uploaded by Sage Lewis. This is a crowning day of glory for me. This is the first picture I have ever had of me and a major political figure. Thanks Joe! You can see all of the pictures I took at the event here.
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Rsync Problems
For the life of me, I couldn’t get files to transfer from an XP laptop to a FreeNas samba server. This was why: rsync Linux Commands: Remote file copy (Synchronize file trees) a trailing slash on the source changes this behavior to transfer all files from the directory src/bar on the machine foo into the…
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Tips On Getting Involved in Community Development Online
This is a post specifically for people who attended my Community class at Small Business Marketing Unleashed in Columbus Ohio. But if you haven’t come to the class, you might find this useful too. Here are my tips for getting involved in online communities. You have to participate to make it a success. You can’t…
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Robert Giroux “highbrow publisher” Obituary
This is from The Week (September 19, 2008):“What’s publishing all about?” he once asked. “If it isn’t about what you like and believe in, you might as well manufacture sausages.”
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Andrew Bacevich – The Limits of Power
This is from The Week (September 19, 2008):Bacevich argues that a generation-plus of profligacy at home is feeding reckless U.S. militarism abroad, and that neither trend is sustainable. “Tacitly, at least, the American people are complicit” in the wreckage created by the U.S. invasion of Iraq, he says, because preserving the “American way of ife”…
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Rocky is in search of her favorite pediatrician
First, if you have never checked out Rocky’s blog, I highly recommend it. It’s the way you always wanted your blogs to be written. It’s concise, funny and clever. But she is in search of her favorite pediatrician, Dr. Paula Sabella, MD. She has a post about it here: Vicarious Rocky: Dear Dr. Paula Sabella,…
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Encoding DVD’s To Put On My Hard Drive
I have a small computer that I would like to play movies on. However, it doesn’t have a dvd player. So, now I’m venturing into the dark world of cracking dvd’s with Decrypting software and then re-encoding the movies to fit the various formats I’m interested in using. Right now I’m testing this:DVD Decrypter You…
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Google Apps Test
I’ve been playing around with Google Apps on SageRock.org to see if it might, someday be something for our main site. The thing I’m working on now is getting the MX records setup for Google Apps in my dns records. (My dns records are on 000domains.com. All of the changes are happening within their dns…
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.htaccess Regular Expressions Rewriting Glossary
I am teaching a class tomorrow on SEO Tech Tips. Part of the class is .htaccess rewriting. I think one of the hardest parts of this is knowing what all the different codes stand for in what is called Regular Expressions. I won’t list them all. But I do want to put the most common…