I had a wonderful day yesterday, December 22, 2011. Our sales team at First American Title volunteered to help out at the Providence Regina House located in Seattle's South Park Neighborhood. Among its many services the Regina House operates a food and clothing bank. During the months of Novembe
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12/23/2011
I love impromptu and a good challenge, and I really enjoy making videos. With changes at work come new and different apps and programs. My toolbox at home doesn't mix and match much with my setup at work. So the challenge I gave myself here was to adapt and to kick something out as fast as possib
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12/18/2011
The first beta version of Chrome was released for Microsoft Windows back in September of 2008. Later in December Google released the ‘stable’ public version. It took about 3 years for Chrome to become the 3rd most popular browser in August 2011. Late last month, November 2011, Chrome (version 15
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12/15/2011
Bottlenose is a new dashboard tool for use with networks like Facebook and Twitter. Like Hootesuite and TweetDeck you can see all streams in one column or seperate things out into multiple columns to view your mentions, what you've sent out, and private comments. You can also create columns by in
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12/14/2011
I've been on a quest for nearly 40 years. Grandma's meatloaf was divine! It was a slice of love that I’ve never forgotten. Last weekend I was inspired to try once again to unlock that secret recipe. You see, when Grandma passed she handed down very few recipes, except those for baking. She was a
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12/12/2011
A long long time ago... In a galaxy far far away... I’m talkin’ Christmas here in the 1950’s. That was a time before time before time when we didn’t have high speed internet, social networks, or On Demand TV with a thousand channels to watch. (We only had 3 on a very very good day.) René meets Sa
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12/08/2011
Okay, I’m feeling like a dinosaur this week. I’ve had it! I have to get a new smartphone and soon. My cellphone is now officially the oldest piece of equipment I have in my arsenal and it's showing its age. I’m almost embarrassed to admit, I have an old Blackberry 8330. Not that it’s a bad phone.
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12/03/2011
I can’t think of better news for this holiday season than yesterday’s announcement that the new Boeing 737 MAX is going to be built in Renton, Washington. Boeing's history in the Seattle area dates back to 1910 when William E. Boeing purchased the Heath shipyard on the Duwamish River. This would
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12/01/2011