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January 2006 - Posts

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  Online Ticket Auctions – The Solution to Half Empty Professional Sporting Events?

  One of the things that really bug me is when owners of professional sporting team complain about half empty arenas. It doesn’t take an MBA degree to understand the simple laws of economics. In order to sell all of your inventory (aka the tickets) Read More... Posted Sunday, January 29, 2006 8:15 PM by donxml | 2 Comments

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  20 Years Since the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

  I can't believe that is has been 20 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger accident . Seems just like yesterday I was in college at Colorado School of Mines , and while eating a late breakfast (after some early classes) I happen to catch a glimpse of Read More... Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 11:21 AM by donxml | 1 Comments

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  Advertising Optimization Update – Dropping Chitka

  It has been just over a month since I decided to try to optimize the advertising revenue for this site, and I’d have to say that overall it has been extremely successful. But, I know that I’m nowhere near being done (my goal is to have Steve Read More... Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 4:28 PM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  Play the Telemarketer Bottleneck Game and Help Reduce Telemarketing

  In America, when there is a perceived problem, the government tries to jump in and legislate it away. With the scourge of telemarketing abusing the phone system, in the government’s infinity wisdom, they created the Do Not Call Registry . Instead Read More... Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 11:51 AM by donxml | 4 Comments

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  The Freakonomics Affect and Toll Roads

  If you haven’t had the chance to read Freakonomics , I’d suggest that you add it to your shortlist of ready reading material (there is even a matching blog ). What the author does is tie seemingly unrelated events to their effects (exposing Read More... Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 2:20 PM by donxml | 6 Comments

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  Clerks 2 Teaser Now Available

  If you are reading this blog entry, it is obvious that you don’t already subscribe to Kevin Smith’s blog ( My Boring Ass Life ), otherwise you would already know this little tid bit of info. Kevin has released a 2 minute teaser for Clerks Read More... Posted Monday, January 09, 2006 10:39 AM by donxml | 0 Comments

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  Evils of EZPass and an Alternate Solution

  EZPass is a toll collection system (for toll roads and bridges/tunnels) that is prominent in the northeastern United States, which I believe is just another way for Big Government to watch the average person. It sounds pretty harmless, and pitched as Read More... Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 11:27 AM by donxml | 29 Comments

  Filed under: New Jersey