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07/07/07 Summer of Love (1967) was 40 years ago.

I will be going to my 40 year high school reunion next month. The summer of 1967 is featured in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Their list of the top 40 albums from 1967 illustrates the significance of that year. I did not catch up with that scene until ten years later.

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Bob Halvorson funeral

My friend, Bob Halvorson died June 1, 2007 from liver cancer at age 56. Some of his classmates asked if I would take their photo. I said they might try finding it on the internet by doing a image search for Art Oglesby and Appleton. The high res photos are in my ARTiFactor Picasaweb album [...]

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My friend, Bob, is liquidating his collection of books online. He is using LibraryThing to create a database including title, author, reviews, tags, etc. I really like what his author tagcloud looks like. The more books one has by an author, the bigger the font is for that tag. If you exclude authors from the [...]

Selling books online

A friend I grew up with is dying from liver cancer. He has only a few months left to finalize his affairs. One task he has chosen, is to liquidate his collection of books, mostly science fiction. So far he has sold about 10 % of his 3000+ books (via e-bay venders, I think).
What would [...]