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Re: Denying the uncomfortable statistics

Marish — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:59:17 -0000

I always find something new and interesting every time I come around here - thanks.

Re: Be A Financial Advisor

Marish — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:22:12 -0000

Words from an old man - When I was younger [18], an older man told me to always pay myself first. I followed his advice and today I live very well. It makes me very sad today when I talk to my older friend who did not follow his own advice. He still lives from check to check. So pay yourself first, invest, and if you lose a little, it's OK. Just keep going. After 10 or 20 years, it will add up.

Re: Comprehensive iPod 5G DVD Ripping and Video Conversion Guide

Marish — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:00:42 -0000

The video quality is amazing and the same goes for the sound. It was a treat to watch the high quality video in full screen

Re: DivX Unmuzzled, Quiet Period Ends

Marish — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:27:29 -0000

Great topic. I was just getting ready to begin finding some tools to do the very same tasks.

Re: Xbox 360: Video-On-Demand Trojan Horse

Marish — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:51:39 -0000

Very entertaining issue. I haven't heard of this one. It will be necessary to visit you on a thicket!

Re: New DivX video portal rocks, but will you download it?

Marish — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:31:54 -0000

Very entertaining issue. I haven't heard of this one. It will be necessary to visit you on a thicket!

Re: Correcting the Record about Microsoft

Marish — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:25:53 -0000

Great post, I see racial self-segregation all the time, and I want to investigate the issue more thoroughly.
I always find something new and interesting every time I come around here - thanks.

Re: Windows Media 11’s lack of podcasting gets noticed

Marish — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:01:48 -0000

Very entertaining issue. I haven't heard of this one. It will be necessary to visit you on a thicket!

Re: Bad news, my mom is in hospital

Marish — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:53:44 -0000

Strokes can affect people in a variety of different ways, some lightly and others horribly. When you get there take the time with her. As you said, you two weren’t that close, but at least you may have some time with her which is better than the alternative. I lost my father last year unexpectedly, and we were not as close either.

Re: Windows Media 11’s lack of podcasting gets noticed

Marish — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:39:23 -0000

I've got the Windows Media Player 11 too, and its very good and comfortable programm! I'm glad that I've got one! :)

Re: Windows Media 11’s lack of podcasting gets noticed

Marish — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:14:56 -0000

I use Juice as an aggregator, and it will automatically build WMP playlists. Great. But, in WMP11, when you view an item in a playlist, you can’t delete the item. That means it’s almost impossible to use playlists to manage podcasts, since cleaning up old podcasts is essential.

Re: Windows Media 11’s lack of podcasting gets noticed

Marish — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 05:44:55 -0000

WMP handles Mp3’s just fine and has given that option for ripping cd’s since WMP10. As far as AAC, that’s an Apple proprietary format. As far as those features are concerned its a moot point. I fall back to a basic premise that I follow on formats and that is “How much does it cost to get the software to create it?” Once again, the last time I checked Windows Media Encoder is free while Quicktime pro is $39.95.

Re: Friends Helping Friends

Marish — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:38:02 -0000

I always find something new and interesting every time I come around here - thanks.

Re: Looking for a top .Net platform software developer for StratosCube, a start-up company based in Paris

Marish — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:14:52 -0000

I’ve taken a quick look at your postings, which are very interesting. Lots of material and ideas! Congrats on being so focused!

Re: Joe Grushecky – Rock’s best-kept secret

Marish — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:44:52 -0000

I always find something new and interesting every time I come around here - thanks.

Re: http://blog.inc.com/archives/2005/05/national_associ.html

Marish — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:12:12 -0000

When our association hosts meetings that are sponsored or presented by industry companies, sometimes they go off on tangents, and believe me, our members are the first to complain if they have to endure this. Typically these sponsors or speakers are not asked to come back.

Re: Hijab: a Must, OR a Choice?

Marish — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:32:43 -0000

There is no fixed standard as to the style of dress or type of clothing to wear, as long as it meets the following requirements: covering everything but the face and hands; looseness; thickness (not to show the body); not flashy; modesty; and be feminine.
If the hijab doesnt meet all these requirements it is no hijab no matter what, which brings me to the comment of Abu Sinan as well, the application of some girls doesnt mean this is hijab. Hijab must meet all requirements.

Re: Book: Cradle to Cradle

Marish — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:35:58 -0000

I enjoyed this review and appreciated your reference to “environmentalism’s kiss of death”. It’s true that people get scared away when you tell them that the hardwood floors and the paint in their house in killing them and the planet, and they shouldn’t drive a vehicle anywhere, and everything they eat is contaminated with something.

Re: Katrina Cottage: The New Urbanist Response

Marish — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:25:21 -0000

We bought a house after the storm in a neighborhood you wouldn't have wanted to live in before the storm. There are some very good deals on structures that have stood through many floods.

Re: Katrina Cottage: The New Urbanist Response

Marish — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:28:03 -0000

The Katrina Cottage was built in just 20 days and trucked to the site, Cusato said. This one was frame construction, but it could be built as a modular home or with panelized construction. The idea was to offer something versatile, flexible and affordable and to interest manufacturers in reproducing the house.

Re: \"Eco-Packaging\" Finalist: Good Mornin' Earrings

Marish — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:34:01 -0000

They are attempting to collect stale cereal and manufacturer's packaging misprints/overruns. Actually, this may be the best packaging finalist because it's the only one that has packaging not specifically made new to be packaging for that product - until there is zero waste in the world, reuse always wins in my book.

Re: Pallet-House: Modular Refugee Housing

Marish — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 03:33:43 -0000

I was homeless out there at the street level for 14 of the 25 years i was an addict, living on the side of the freeway in a pallet house, cardboard boxes, abandoned gas stations or looking for a warm bush to crawl under. I certainly didn't care if I lived another day or not. is a matter of fact.....I wished more than anything that I was dead because at least that would stop me from the suffering I was experiencing on a dialy basis. I got my clothes and food out of dumpsters, I cleaned myself in restaurant bathroom or under garden hoses. I couldn't tust anyone around me at that level because they would cut my throat for a crack pipe. the cops would play us all agianst eachother, take our money, give us our dope back and tell us we were paid up for the month, to have a nice day and call it street justice. the shelters would not let you in unless you stayed overnight and I could not go all night without a fix. I could not go to a meal line unless I had alrady had my fix because I could not eat without it. Every single function in life depended on my drug of choice.

Re: Pallet-House: Modular Refugee Housing

Marish — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:54:51 -0000

That's an interesting comment because I thought the same thing. A couple of years ago one of our sons looked into technological breakthroughs in the housing industy with the idea of doing some development. That's why I'm familiar with the difference between modular housing, which is constructed according to state industrial and local building codes and manufactured housing which is regulated by federal codes.

Re: Pallet-House: Modular Refugee Housing

Marish — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 04:30:16 -0000

The Pallet House is an inexpensive, efficient and easily realizable solution to the problem of housing people displaced by natural disaster, plague, famine, political and economic strife or war. This proposal was included in the 2000 Architecture Biennale in Venice as an example of "ethical" architecture and won an Honorable Mention in an international competition to design transitional housing for the returning refugees of Kosovo. The competition guidelines indicated that it takes about five years for a Kosovar family to rebuild a typical stone house. The Pallet House solution is transitional in that it is able to evolve from temporary shelter to permanent home through the addition of more permanent materials over time.

Re: Defining Social Entrepreneurship

Marish — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:34:05 -0000

One way to sort this entrepreneurial hay is by using what some social scientists call a modus operandi approach. Simply asked, what kinds of clues do social entrepreneurs leave as they do their work? How do they operate? What do they emphasize? How do they change over time?

The first and most important clue that social entrepreneurs leave is a commitment to solving significant social problems through pattern-breaking ideas, even if that commitment is currently on hold due to changing conditions. These pattern-breaking ideas should be visible through actual endeavor, and revealed in innovative programs or methods for solving a given problem.

Re: Share Your Green Epiphany

Marish — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:53:11 -0000

onse. Well since then I have been aspired to become an Eco Evenger!! I was born in Conn and then was moved to Texas (40 miles from where our wonderfully environmental prez has his ranch), to say the least the change was more than surprising!!! I was thrust into a place with little of which I thought was everywhere.

Re: Recycled Tableware by Belland®Vision

Marish — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 05:17:25 -0000

Fifty-Cents is Sara Cihat’s creative statement about the importance of recycling and the ability to renew value of unwanted things. She finds used dishes, cleans them, applies new designs and re-fires them. The result is fun, funky and feel-good.

Re: Recycled Tableware by Belland®Vision

Marish — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 09:13:38 -0000

Recycle glass to "sand" - Many communities are now accepting all types of glass and ceramics. They pulverize the mixed glass back into a user-friendly glass "sand" and glass "gravel product that can be used in theri own communities.

Re: Powweb Web Hosting Sucks

Marish — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:23:55 -0000

I explained this to their tech support and they assured me it would not be a problem when my domain was flipped to the new system. When the legacy servers started going down in September, I called again to make sure my migration was complete and they said everything was fine.

Re: Powweb Web Hosting Sucks

Marish — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:15:16 -0000

I called technical support after being 6th in the que and 1 hour on hold. Then i get this smug technicain on the phone and told me that all my files were deleted because i took over 7 days to contact them to make the a payment. To top it off he told me that files on the server are not powwebs responsibility that i had to have back ups but the way he told me he made me fell like a total idiot.