Archive for December, 2007
Friday, December 28th, 2007
Movie tickets may not cost as much in Indiana as they do on the east and west coasts but that doesn’t mean they’re cheap. If you’re anything like me, your wallet has taken a hit in recent years as movie ticket prices have continued to escalate. Besides the common sense ...
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Friday, December 28th, 2007
One of my nieces is getting ready to apply for college, so she’s looking into scholarships and asked my advice, hoping I knew of some websites she could check out. While there are plenty of scholarship resources online, I gave her the same advice I would give any other high ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
I just stumbled upon a campaign at The Point from a group of Hoosiers that want to start an Indiana blogging conference. I think it’s a great idea, and I’m sure there are enough Hoosier bloggers in the state that would attend if one were to happen. They just need ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Similar to newspapers, magazines don’t really make their profit from subscription sales. They live or die on their advertising revenue, and to fluff those numbers and increase members of certain key demographics, they often give out free subscriptions to people who work in businesses that their advertisers are trying ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
If you have a personal website, blog, or even a Myspace page, you’ll want to check out Widget Box. Widgets are cool little gadgets you can add to your website by cutting and pasting a little code from sites like Widget Box. They let you do things like ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
If you want to annoy and/or amuse your friends and family this holiday season, head over to Elf Yourself from Office Max and turn 1-4 people or pets into dancing, singing elves. Click here for an example I created using some staff mugshots from our newspaper, The Noblesville Daily ...
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Monday, December 17th, 2007
If you’re a person who watches much television, you’ve definitely noticed that there’s a writers’ strike going on, which has halted production on just about every show on television. What you might not know, is that one of the main reasons for the strike is that writers are demanding ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
On Saturday evening, my wife and I stopped at the Indianapolis Zoo to check out Kroger’s Christmas at the Zoo. Besides thousands of Christmas lights and a model train exhibit at the White River Gardens, there’s another reason to visit the zoo this time of the year. The ...
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