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I’ve been helping Ligia launch her re-designed personal site over the past several days. While my own site may seem a little quiet (except for the regular Condensed Knowledge posts), I’ve been quite busy behind the scenes.
Ligia has been working on her own line of greeting cards since January. She makes them by hand, from [...]
My photographs (a select number of them) are now up for sale through both Alamy and the PhotoShelter Collection. Here are the links:
Stock Photography by Raoul Pop at Alamy
Raoul Pop’s Stock Photography at PhotoShelter Collection
Alamy presents you with a search page first. To see my photos without doing a search, just click on my name. [...]
» Go to this postThis post is a bit of a rant, but it’s something that’s bothered me for some time. Now that I’m married, I’ve found that Ligia has the same problem as me. We have a really hard time finding clothes that can fit us. It seems that clothing manufacturers out there have geared all of their [...]
» Go to this postYou can go to Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, MOM’s, Safeway, Giant, Publix — you name it — and buy the most expensive tomatoes, but they’ll still taste just as flat as the cheapest ones you’ll find. I don’t care if they’re organic, hydroponic, vine-ripened or whatever — they still have no taste.
It’s a fact of [...]
Stumbled onto two great articles today. The first explains why consumers are charged price premiums for certain items based on special criteria. The perfect example of this is the price difference between the white and the black Macbooks with identical hardware setups. The second article looks at the rise and fall of the hit, and [...]
» Go to this postFrom TechDirt:
“For years, there have been controversies (especially among financial types) over whether or not e-commerce shops should offer free shipping, especially as some fear that it takes too big a bite out of the bottom line. However, there’s more to free shipping than just the saved money. Researchers are finally starting to look at [...]
Stylehive: social bookmarking meets online shopping. Here is the link.
» Go to this postA website called Zixxo has launched to allow coupon creation and distribution via RSS feeds. Businesses can log on and create coupons, specify local or national distribution, and consumers can access and use them. Nice! See link for details.
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