I have battled for a couple of years with a notebook computer I bought before going on vacation. My notebook had died, and I knew I would need a computer to keep in touch with my office. I could…
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This Will Make One Heck Of A Tape Ball
I keep my Google News Alerts set for stories about the manufacturers products we sell. Today I got this one about Shurtape, a tape manufacturer in Hickory, NC. Sun Kwak, a Korean artist, is using over three miles of black…
We Live And Die With The Arts
We built our online and catalog business with the support of many small local and regional arts groups, and their health is essential to our ongoing success. These are not the best of days for this kind of organization. I…
Let iGoogle Do The Heavy Lifting
Jeff
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Anybody who has tried to us a web service called RSS (Really Simple Syndication) to subscribe to online news, podcasts, blogs, etc. knows that the first “S” in RSS stands for anything but “simple“. In theory, by subscribing to a…
Let Your Customers Design Your Web Pages
I enjoy designing and posting web pages for our sites, and try to make sure I put something new online almost every day. It is really easy to consider a web page to be “finished” when it is posted and…
Doing The Job You’re Best At
I really like reading the newspaper. I subscribe to three dailies and try to read them almost every day. There are lots of good sources to get more current news, but they don’t allow for the same pace of absorbing…
Weak Link In The Chain
Sometime back, I speculated that perhaps we were approaching the point where the sound man would no longer be necessary. I was only half kidding-pointing out that quickly developing digital technology would let the sound system compare what it was…
Intelligently Searching For Intelligent Search
I subscribe to a news alert service provided by Forbes Magazine and find that about once a day I will click on a link to one of their business-oriented stories. They are useful and well written. This morning they sent…
A Renaissance In Customer Service?
At dinner last night my wife commented on a very positive lunch experience she had had at a local sandwich shop. She was taken with how gracious the clerk was and how hard this employee worked to make a good…
Our Little Town
When we take a phone order, quite often the first question we get is”where are you guys located?.” Usually, that’s because the customer wants some idea of how quickly they can receive their order. We are proud to tell them…
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