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Side Step the Sucker punch: A test to determine if you should give money and ammunition to avoid the guilt give

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Recently Slate.com, one of my favorite news spots, posted an article by Patty Stonesifer and Sandy Stonesifer with their answer on how to determine if you should  give money to that bikeathon, walkathon, readathon, or danceathon that your friend, neighbor, cousin, collegeue has hit you up for.  (Note: I am all about donating [...]

8 out of 60. What’s the relevance?

UPDATED: 8 list additions thanks to Leslie from the comments.  Now that makes the title of the post wrong, but much more interesting.  There are 16 blogs in the Top 60 that are reformed.

Recently Kent Shaffer from Church Relevance posted his list of the Top 60 Church Blogs and given my love for technology and [...]

What would P.T. Barnum drive? A Ninja Hauler

Barnum, possibly the undisputed king of promotion would drive this Ninja hauler below.
NINJA HAULER: 2005 Nissan Xterra – $12900 (Ronan / Lake County)
OK, let me start off by saying this Xterra is only available for purchase by the manliest of men (or women). My friend, if it was possible for a vehicle to sprout chest [...]

Matchstic, what a magical place of branding

I was down in the ATL aka hot-lanta aka the dirty south early last week and got the chance to connect with they guys at Matchstic, which is a branding identity house. They’ve done some great work for some friends and they sure know how to throw down.
I was fortunate enough to get a [...]

Round Two – Don’t call it a comeback

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So it’s been a long while since I’ve blogged at all. But don’t call it a comeback I’ve been using twitter like a maniac, but have steered clear of blogging.  The reason was two fold, first I didn’t have the time.  I was rapidly adapting to learning how to transition to the [...]

Making the move from Wordpress.com to Wordpress.org

So my first foray into blogging was over at Tactile Jazz, it was a a free site run on wordpress.com.  It served me well as I started to learn the ins and outs of of the blogosphere.  But as I learned more, I wanted to experiment more and while wordpress.com is super easy to get [...]