Light Sweet Crude Makes Nice Sweet Drop

Light sweet crude dropped briefly below the $48 mark to 47.95 before heading back up $48.20 this morning. Brent North Sea crude is up 12 cents in London to $48.40 a barrel and gasoline futures down slightly at just over a penny a gallon.

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Damn It Jim! The Shows Over

Tonight marks a special, less than pleasant night for the aging geek, it's the end of Star Trek. Tonight is the final episode of the last series in the franchise, Star Trek: Enterprise with their final episode, "These Are The Voyages"

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It Isn’t A Sale Until You’re Paid

Back in the days when I sold for CTV and CBC Television I had a manager that once said " It isn't a sale until you're paid." Most salespeople absolutely HATE calling their customers to ask for payment as they feel like the GOOD GUY and BAD GUY rolled into one!

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Google, The French, and World Domination; The Culture War Begins

"[T]he Internet [is] the most recent and the most sinister facet of American cultural imperialism to emerge: the Internet is anchored in the United States; the vast majority of World Wide Web sites are based in the U.S and are in English; most software used to navigate the Internet is in English; and search engines are in English (Kim, 1998)".

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Let the Blog Bashing Begin

Pete Blackshaw predicted this would happen and he was right. In a new report, eMarketer is questioning whether businesses will ever blog.

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