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MONDAY, DEC. 6, 2004

Final Word

As you see, I test-drove a new concept today: "Web Log." Pretty boring name. But it fits the feature -- an on-line summary of my work day. I'll try it for a coupla of days to gauge its potential. Meanwhile, I appreciate the response to…

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Web Log

Gonna try something new today ... an actual log as I go thru the day. I'll keep updating it with newest things on top:4:45 p.m. Biz Tidbits columnist Nils Rosdahl stopped by to say he found a wild turkey dead on his porch when he…

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Best of the Web, indeed

If you haven't read James Taranto's Best of the Web (which has a link under "blog roll" on the bottom right side of this blog, you're denying yourself the best daily commentary on the today's news. Great stuff again today. Click here.

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Best of the Northwest

In the second half of his Coeur d'Alene Press column today, weather forecaster Cliff Harris (whom I met 25 years or so ago in Montana's Flathead Valley when he was hanging out with doomsday predictor R.E. McMaster) tries to explain what went wrong with that…

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Monday Quick Fix 6 (12/6/04)

So, when is a ha-huge snowstorm not a ha-huge snowstorm? When it's predicted by the local weather channels, at 100% probability, and doesn't happen. I waited for the Mother of All Snowstorms to hit Friday night, then Saturday day and then again Saturday night. When…

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Huckleberries Online

D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.