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Archive for February 2007

February 23rd, 2007

MyHometownHelper - Assisting Communities with Special Projects

A friend actually uncovered this website for me through an e-mail he just sent. Recently there were two boys in our community that were killed a railroad crossing. Someone found the MyHometownHelper website and put their request in for help to install RR crossing lights and arms at an intersection that currently only has a […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

February 22nd, 2007

Yahoo!’s Weekly Picks This Week

Here are the Weekly Picks from Yahoo! on cool websites. Remember they’ve decided to discontinue their e-mails the end of this month if you’ve signed up for them.

The Amy Sedaris Craft Challenge
Global Underwear Crisis
Macaulay Library Animal Sound & Video Catalog
The Homicide Report
Massimo Vitali
The Ex-Girlfriend Project
The Envelope Collective
Cooking Debauchery

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By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 22nd, 2007

Sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Today at work a song I’m sure many of us have all heard started playing, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot. Now as I said, I’m sure you’ve heard the song before, but have you ever really paid attention to the story behind it? I never did, until my business partner asked […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

February 21st, 2007

Traineo - Fitness for Everyone

Fellow b5′er and friend Jeremy Wright is working on slimming down some more and getting more fit. This has been something I’ve been needing to do to take care of some health issues I’m having right now and just generally improve my life and lifestyle.
In his post he mentions a website, Traineo, that I thought […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 20th, 2007

AllBusiness.com - Resources for Growing Businesses

 
How many of you all are running your own business? Is it you full-time gig, or something you’re doing on the side? Is it just a hobby and one day you thought you’d try and see if you can make any money enjoying your hobby? (Warning: Sometimes going down this road starts to make you […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 20th, 2007

Disney.com

My family I went to Disney World for the first time as a family last year. Actually the only one of us that had been there before was my wife, so it was a nice treat for myself and my two kids.
Since we were recently there, a friend just instant messaged me and asked me […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 19th, 2007

LiveNation - For Finding Concerts in Your Area

While onsite at a client today, I noticed that the offices for LiveNation were in the building I was in. I had briefly recognized the name for a minute, but couldn’t quite place exactly what they did. I knew they were an online company of some sort, but just couldn’t nail it down.
I quickly […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 14th, 2007

DynaCal - Online Calendaring for Schools, Churches, Non-Profits and more

I just stumbled across this website as I was looking for information on an event my niece was performing in at a local high school. As I’ve been working with a variety of web clients for quite awhile, I’ve become somewhat familiar with the options for managing an online calendar.
The statement of getting what […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

February 13th, 2007

48 Days to the Work You Love

How many jobs have you had in your life where the only benefit to you was the paycheck? You didn’t enjoy what you did, you weren’t motivated at all, and you had no investment in being there other than trying to pay the bills.
Do you believe that’s the norm and the reason they call it […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

February 11th, 2007

A Better Community

I wanted to highlight a website tonight that I heard about as I was watching a great episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on ABC.com.
It’s called A Better Community, and it’s a service coming from ABC.com.
MISSION
Welcome to A Better Community, ABC’s home for community service.
Through this site, as well as the public service […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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