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Entries Tagged as 'Friday Five'

Friday Five: The Rules

May 9th, 2008 · 3 Comments


Since I started this community blog experiment about a month-and-a-half ago: the results have been phenomenal.
In a little more than one month, traffic has nearly doubled, page views have more than doubled, the number of unique visitors is climbing steadily, and the RSS and e-mail subscriber list is growing.
The quality [...]

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Friday Five: Bob Orr - By The Numbers

March 28th, 2008 · Comments Off

Recently, I announced that I was endorsing Bob Orr for North Carolina Governor.  I’ve also spoken at events in Cabarrus and Davidson Counties on behalf of the campaign.  In that post, I discussed briefly why I decided to choose him over the other candidates.
For this week’s Friday Five, I’m going to explain why I’m backing [...]

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Friday Five: Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite

March 21st, 2008 · Comments Off

This week, Arthur C. Clarke died on Wednesday at the age of 90. If you know who Arthur C. Clarke is - you’re probably a nerd. He was the last of the “big three” (Asimov and Heinlien being the other two) science fiction writers of the 20th Century.
What [...]

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Friday Five: Be A Refugee This Easter

March 14th, 2008 · Comments Off


For my first original Friday Five here at the Post, I thought I’d introduce you to some of my friends from the local blogosphere by inviting them to church with me.
As for y’all, if you’re not going anywhere for church this coming Easter (one week from Sunday) - invite you [...]

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I’ve Got Your Friday Five Right Here, Pal!

March 3rd, 2008 · Comments Off

On invitation of the Kannapolis Citizen, I’ll be publishing this (well, last) week’s and future week’s Friday Five at SalisburyPostables.com - the Salisbury Post’s new blog site. I will post the video and header of the post here - with the entire post at the Salisbury Post site.
It’s interesting - y’all should go [...]

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Friday Five: My Next Thirty Years

February 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

 
If the boy is father to the man, then I was raised by a profligate dunce - Joe Carter
I turned 30 last month, here are five things learned in that short time that are worth sharing.

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Friday Five: Seoul Survivor

February 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments


I don’t mind getting this Friday Five out late; because most of my Friday was your Thursday: I was in South Korea this week for a return trip with a member utility I’d worked with last year.
I enjoy visiting Korea. The people are earnest and friendly, and this is [...]

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No Friday Five

February 8th, 2008 · Comments Off

I’ll explain later.  Have a good weekend.
See y’all Monday(ish)

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Friday Five: From Good to Great in $100,000

February 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments


Under the Dome reported that Fred Smith gave Lee Greenwood $100,000 to record a song for Fred Smith’s campaign. Fred Smith shot back that he didn’t pay Lee Greenwood just for the song; but for other services - in addition to the song.
The fact of the matter is - [...]

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Friday Five: Why I’m Gone for Six Weeks

December 21st, 2007 · 4 Comments

 
At first glance, this video would be more appropriate last week.  However, it’s great because as often as I’m part of the network displayed - I won’t be for the next little while.
I’m not planning on posting anything until February - here’s five reasons why.

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