Best Odds Hospital Lottery

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Excerpt: You know those 1 in 5, or 1 in 7 or 1 in 12 odds you will win, cash for some hospital or society lotteries? Have you ever wondered what the odds are that you will win a prize worth winning? I just received such a flyer, and looked through it. There were 41 prizes worth more than $10,000. The maj …

Bad Viral Marketing

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Excerpt: Recently, I got a comment on Phoenixrealm from Yvonne from Matchstick and for a moment, I was all excited. Matchstick.ca is a company that does word of mouth marketing, and they were offering me a chance at trying out a new cell phone that Rogers was going to support. As I read deeper into the c …

Apple Thinks they are Better

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Excerpt: It looks like Apple is really happy about having Intel processors in their computers, and they are so confident in their brand name and everything else that they released the above on their homepage, Apple.com. I think it is very bold of them, especially since what they basically are is anoth …

Free Time, or Those that Don’t Respect it

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Excerpt: I was asked by a new friend if I would help him work on some graphics for a CMS he is working on because I am the only person he knows that can put anything together graphically. I said yes, thinking that the project would not take more than an hour or two, and that this new friend would not be pick …

International Orders

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Excerpt: Update (March 23rd, 2007): International Orders as I knew it, is no more. A new company has bought the domain and a new company has been started. The old International Orders is gone. Please don't let the below review of the old company sway you against buying with the new International Orders, as I …