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<title>Swope Design Graphic &#x26; Web Design Personal Blog</title><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/index.html</link><description>Entries about general business topics&#x2c; graphic design&#x2c; web design &#x26; related eclectica</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2006 Mike Swope</dc:rights><dc:date>2010-02-28T11:19:53-06:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:59:49 -0600</lastBuildDate><item><title>You Can Tell a Lot about a Person by the Movies&#x2c; Books and Music They Own...</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2010-02-28T11:19:53-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-31</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-31</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[All you have to do is click to add a new media item, then enter its title or author or similar information, and Delicious Library goes right to work to pull the cover and information about every item featuring your search query. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>AnthologyBuilder.com: A GREAT Idea with A Bright Future (with enough support)</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2008-06-01T12:28:34-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-29</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-29</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Of course, a best sellers list is necessary (in fact, all stories in the database should be able to be sorted by genre and popularity and rating so that if a visitor wished he could view EVERY story in the database based on any or all of these factors from the top to the bottom). ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Domain Registration &#x26; Web Site Listing Scams</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Web/Graphic Design</category><dc:date>2007-06-30T17:35:49-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-28</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-28</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Domain Listing Service Corporation (DLSCorp.net): This second unethical letter looks like an official billing (much like that from Domain Registry of America), and simply says to make payment to them for a web site address listing, domain name submission to search engines. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>An Inconvenient Truth &#x26; Companion Web Site</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2007-04-15T12:04:03-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-27</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-27</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[We have wanted to watch this film since its release, but I admit that we were afraid to watch it, afraid of what we might learn, afraid that our planet is changing at an alarming rate and few people are doing anything about it, or even seem to care. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>eBay&#x27;s Fraud Protection Worth What You Pay for It: NOTHING&#x21;</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2007-02-27T21:18:28-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-26</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-26</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[At this time, we also discovered the front brakes worked, but the pads were completely gone (the tin warning clips had been removed from the front pads to eliminate that warning sound that brakes are bad), the AC did not work, the cooling fans did not work (were not hooked up), the fuse block under the hood was gutted so that relays for the cooling fans and other parts were missing and any replacement would not be held in place because the contacts were missing, the electric window motors did not work, the dash was broken, the odometer did not work, the radio did not work, there was no CD changer, and the PR wheel was severely bent on the inside bead. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Furnace Not Working? Check These Things for a Quick&#x2c; Cheap Fix&#x21;</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2007-02-13T22:10:13-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-25</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-25</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Of course, it is a good idea to have your heating and cooling system checked every year or two, and to replace filters every 3 months to keep your system operating at its peak performance. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Spider-Man 3 Looks Very Exciting&#x21;</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Personal Blog</dc:subject><dc:date>2007-02-07T16:31:45-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-24</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-24</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Spider-Man 3 appears to be a film about revenge: Peter Parker's revenge for Uncle Ben's death, Harry Osborn's revenge for his father's death, and the alien costume responds to the emotion of revenge. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Wal&#x2a;Mart Has Its Uses for Designers &#x26; Freelancers &#x26; Their Customers</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Web/Graphic Design</category><dc:date>2007-02-04T11:19:29-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-23</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-23</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[In the past, I knew they didn't support my computer platform of choice, so I took a CD and when I got home stuck that CD into my G4 laptop and... watched a useless Flash intro because Wal*Mart's Photo Manager software is STILL incompatible with the Mac! ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Request a Review for Your Book&#x2c; Macintosh Software&#x2c; Macintosh Hardware&#x2c; Apple iPod Accessory or Web Site</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Personal Blog</dc:subject><dc:date>2006-12-28T16:56:17-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-21</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-21</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Looking forward to 2007, and to make it as productive as possible, I have created a form on this site so that publishers/manufacturers can request reviews of their books, software, hardware, iPod accessories and web sites. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Online Handwriting Analysis - Entertaining and Insightful</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2006-11-28T08:11:26-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-20</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-20</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[You need only write "I truly need a new pen" on a sheet of paper, then answer a short sequence of questions about the characteristics of the sample. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The Mysterious Art of Employment Interviews</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2006-09-10T10:41:23-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-19</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-19</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As interviewees, we need to illuminate the target (dart board) by asking a few questions and then assessing how close we've come to the target. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>FREE Books: &#x3c;em&#x3e;OR&#x3c;/em&#x3e; and/or &#x3c;em&#x3e;Passed through the Hands&#x3c;/em&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2006-04-08T19:24:43-05:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-17</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-17</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[It also includes my stories "The Rogue Rodent," "2." and "Timber Wolf" (tribute to Sherwood Anderson).  <em>OR</em> is titled <em>OR</em> because it contains both poetry and short fiction, and the cover was originally printed in five different colors, so readers could have selected this color cover or that color cover or that color cover.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>FREE Software Available to Inventory Your Home/Office for Insurance Purposes</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Info to Share</category><dc:date>2006-02-26T12:22:10-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[KnowYourStuff.org, managed by the Insurance Information Institute, helps people like you and me inventory and calculate the valuable possessions in our home or office, to be used for any purpose, especially insurance purposes from theft or loss. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Building Business Confidence&#x2c; Sales &#x26; Success</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Web/Graphic Design</category><dc:date>2006-02-25T20:11:45-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I explain that if we had sold her the starter, we would have put it in a dozen times but still only charge her once because it would then have been our responsibility to make sure the part is correct for her car. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Hosting Web Images and Single-Page Web Pages</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Web/Graphic Design</category><dc:date>2006-02-25T17:24:35-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[On the other hand, I suggested this wasn't financially viable, since web hosting offers 5MB of space (often more) for just a few dollars a month, and a single page shouldn't be more than 100K, or 1 MB if a lot of photos are in the page for this kind of page, so this would result in nearly no income. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Express&#x2c; Don&#x27;t Impress (Shorter&#x2c; Simpler is Better)</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Web/Graphic Design</category><dc:date>2006-02-08T22:57:22-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There are those Internet marketing gurus who adamantly, vehemently say otherwise, but these are, IMHO, akin to snake oil salesman, selling something that you don't really need or want and may not really wish to purchase but require your readership to ease you into purchasing their product. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Another Notch in My Dokken Collection</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>80&#x27;s Bands</category><dc:date>2006-01-27T22:13:22-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Intact, too, are the themes that inspired the earlier tunes: dark/light contrasts, the things that go on at night, failed love. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rights &#x26; Copyrights</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>80&#x27;s Bands</category><dc:date>2006-01-22T09:11:55-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[So for all the music I have downloaded from Limewire, which isn't all that much, I am purchasing the original CDs to comply with copyright laws and pay the artists for their labors. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New 80&#x27;s Music In the Post</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>80&#x27;s Bands</category><dc:date>2006-01-21T19:18:50-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Among the CDs that I've received in the post are Dokken: Yesterday & Today, Berlin: Pleasure Victim, Cinderella: Long Cold Winter and Giuffria: Silk + Steel. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Rediscovering Cinderella&#x2c; Too</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>80&#x27;s Bands</category><dc:date>2006-01-18T23:11:39-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Unlike tunes from the likes of AC/DC (for whom I've never been much of a fan), Cinderella's songs are Jungian, reaching into our collective psyche and expressing themes as valid today as they were in the 80's. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Give iHome iPod Alarm Clock A Look&#x21;</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Epinions.com Reviews</category><dc:date>2006-01-14T22:20:16-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Then I found the perfect solution to listen to my iPod while I worked at my Small Home Office (corner, really), since I hadn't had much luck with FM Transmitters with my iPod in my vehicles and don't care for headphones. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>How I Won an iPod to My Dismay (and everyone else&#x27;s&#x2c; too&#x21;)</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Apple Computer/Technology</category><dc:date>2006-01-14T22:10:23-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He would have given me the iPod anyway if he had won it, I think, since he's not into Apple or Macs or computers at all.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Giuffria - Remember Them?</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>80&#x27;s Bands</category><dc:date>2006-01-14T19:57:40-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As I'm cruisin' through YourMusic.com's selections, and looking on eBay for a better deal (always have to wach the bottom line), I came across a band I'd long forgotten but whose music I once owned: Giuffria! ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>1980&#x27;s Heavy Metal Memories Revisited</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>80&#x27;s Bands</category><dc:date>2006-01-14T19:50:30-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[YourMusic.com's selection is narrow, but at $5.99/CD with free shipping, that deal can't be beat, even on eBay! ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>New Web Design Software: RapidWeaver 3.2</title><dc:creator>mike@swopedesign.com</dc:creator><category>Epinions.com Reviews</category><dc:date>2006-01-14T19:44:47-06:00</dc:date><link>http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.swopedesign.com/personal_blog/personal-blog.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The image quality isn't at a professional level, but RapidWeaver makes it incredibly easy to get a web site up quickly. v3.5 will be available in about 60 days as a free upgrade to 3.2 owners. ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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