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4 Questions to Ask Your Local Democratic Candidates

4 Questions to Ask Your Local Democratic Candidates

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Yesterday I posted about Tina Trent‘s local efforts to canvass different Democratic candidates running for office at the Georgia state level. The candidates’ answers are posted on her blog. However, I didn’t post the questions. These questions are pretty good ones, and could be used as a basic template to write your own, so here you go. Remember, candidates for office are people who are applying to work for you. Find out what they stand for and what they intend…

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More Benisms

More Benisms

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In case you don’t have enough money to buy me a Lego Star Wars Darth Vader for Christmas, Daddy can get it for you. — This one today, July 10 Thank you Mommy! I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. And so I love you too. On Tuesday, you said on Friday we’d go to the store. It’s Friday. When are we leaving? I think I have a few pebbles on my chin, but I don’t want you to squeeze…

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VirusHead in Space, part 2

VirusHead in Space, part 2

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The VirusHead blog has been beamed into space five times since last September. Blog in Space ranked 7th in SherpaMarketing’s 2006 Viral Hall of Fame. I’m tickled that VirusHead is cited as a “nationally influential blog.” This campaign is proof that if you blatantly appeal to bloggers’ egos and desire for more traffic/attention, they will in turn happily link to you. And if your offer is appealing enough, where a few influential bloggers go the rest will virally follow. Yes,…

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Playing with WordPress Plugins

Playing with WordPress Plugins

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I’ve been playing with a variety of plugins for WordPress. I’ll be nice and not list the plugins that I don’t like. These are the new plugins that I’m actually using: The most useful one is Google Sitemaps (Arne Brachhold). It creates an automatically-updating Google-compliant sitemap of your blog with a built-in configuration page for your administration panel. Excellent! The WordPress Akismet comment spam filter works really well, but I wanted something at the gate too. Even scanning the hundreds…

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(W)retched

(W)retched

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I spent much of the last thirty hours or so in a state of utter wretchedness. And retching. And intensified misery thinking of W. And retching. And wretched. I don’t know whether it was food poisoning, or a virus, or what. Even worst than the nausea and vomiting was the horrible alternation between the sweats and the shivers. I would just about start to get warm and then I would be soaking the sheets. Then I’d fling off the sheets…

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Zoomie

Zoomie

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They didn’t have a grey and white kitty, so this is as close as I get to our kitty Zoom. Zoomie here will play with the cursor. Click the “more” button to get a treat for him – hold it close and he’ll take a wee bite at a time. Click on him and hold to pet him. If you have speakers on, you’ll hear him purr. Very cute little blog toy. adopt your own virtual pet! Hee-hee. The real…

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