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Changing Guard

January 8, 2012

The stewardship of the business in Austin changed in the last year. What is so nice is the new “steward” is part of the family, as in, she’s been around us all — source for stories at one point — for the duration. As such, it is the oldest and largest continually operating event, having [...]

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Planet Waves

January 7, 2012

Coffee Waves in Port A. Post-production image manipulation: iPad. Salient, takeaway quote? “Impatience is not on the menu.”

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Plain Text or fancy HTML E-mail?

January 6, 2012

Plain Text or fancy HTML E-mail? Their answer. I already knew that. From the marketing side, plain text e-mail works better. Marketing guys already figured that out for me. I used to include a button in my email sig file, a small banner that just read, “astrofish.net,” not a big deal. The original idea was [...]

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Microblog

January 5, 2012

Bad blogging advice? I’m not sure. Here’s the tip, I post every day here (astrofish.net/xenon). As well as a daily picture here. Everything else is sporadic, at best. The horoscopes are weekly. The post was an ad for the WordPress Theme, Thesis. That I would highly recommend.

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Must have iPad and iPhone apps

January 4, 2012

I thought I should break this down, but there’s much crossover material. 1. First up on my list would be an astrology program. I’ve played with several. I recently stumbled into AstroLabe’s Celeste and it replaced my old iPhone only (electronic) pocket ephemeris. That free Astrolabe app replaces them all. 2. Perhaps the most important [...]

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Fort Solo

January 3, 2012

Fort Solo: New Years Eve in a quiet, quaint fishing town alongside the turbulent Gulf of Mexico, this is the second time I’ve been down for Jan. 1, and I can only hope this is a new tradition. If the weather was just a tad bit more compliant, I’d be fishing. Instead, I settled for [...]

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Happy Cat Jo’s Coffee

January 2, 2012

(iPhone image and tweaks.) Caught the image a few weeks back. It was prompted by an idyll, a memory, and I was trying to recall the first time. Check 11/17 entry (1998 web-log; hint: pre-blog.) Hand-rolled, homespun weblog. That first cup of Jo’s Coffee, on south Congress? Just 13 years, 1 month, in the past. [...]

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New Year

January 1, 2012

Fresh start? We can only hope. Privacy points. More about crude oil. The legend lives on and on. Bowl of brains. One more brain. Lastly, Austin.

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Best of 2011

December 31, 2011

BexarCountyLine.com The original premise was cheap cameras, but in the last year, I’m moving more to just a phone camera. Not much, but better than no camera. As I paged through the site, I was trying find my favorite examples, images that hold symbolic meaning for me. Number 1: BexarCountyLine.com/2011/09/sunset-2/ Sunset, with a Red Tail [...]

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