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Monthly Archives: April 2008

Is this thing on?

By james | April 30th, 2008

I found an interesting site today, downforeveryoneorjustme.com. If you’ve ever wondered if a website is really down or just singling you out this site tries to give you an answer.

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The Art Collectors

By james | April 24th, 2008

Erin and my favorite art festival was this weekend. The Main Street Art Festivial in Fort Worth is one of the highlights of our cultural year. This year we brought home our first real piece of art work, a print by Daniel Ng. Sunrise Tuscany (giclee print 4 of 450) is now hanging in our [...]

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Mavericks lose another playoff game

By james | April 24th, 2008

The Dallas Mavericks lost in the playoffs again Tuesday night which is disappointing because since my transplant to Dallas they are the one team that I would be willing to call myself a fan of. Three years in a row Dallas has choked in the playoffs, so they have to get their act together for [...]

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Royal Caribbean: Not so bad in the end

By james | April 16th, 2008

A few months ago I wrote a post about Royal Caribbean adding a fuel supplement to our cruise bill after we made our reservation and paid a deposit. For this I called them out as a bad company. Well a few weeks ago they decided they were wrong and revised the fuel supplement. Now people [...]

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