01/09/2009
Hawaiian Telcom Yellow Pages to recycle directories (Honolulu Advertiser)
Hawaiian Telcom Yellow Pages is partnering with a local recycler Island Shell LLC to recycle outdated directories into oil absorbent materials, mulch and insulation.
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01/08/2009
Program aims to recycle Hawaii phone books (Honolulu Advertiser)
Hawaiian Telcom Yellow Pages is partnering with a locally owned recycler, Island Shell LLC, to convert outdated directories into oil absorbent materials, Green Lava Hydro-Mulch or InCide Pest Control Cellulose Insulation — products that will be used locally.
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01/08/2009
Phone books can be set out or dropped off (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)
Question: What's the best way to deal with old phone directories this year: (a) in the trash to go to HPOWER, (b) to some recycling location, or (c) something else?
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01/09/2009
Ponzi Scheme Targeted Catholics, Priests, U.S. Says (Update1) (Bloomberg)
Jan. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors and market regulators accused a Buffalo, New York-area investment adviser of operating a Ponzi scheme that targeted Catholics, including priests.
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01/07/2009
Twitter Users Can Now Promote Their Profile with TwitBacks (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Following up on the popularity of their free branded Twitter backgrounds, TwitBacks.com has added another tool for members to get the most out of their Twitter profile. The "Promote Your Profile" feature allows Twitter users to gain exposure for their profile via web directories, feeds, and search engines.
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01/07/2009
Trade history goes online (Channel 4)
Business directories dating back to 1677, detailing millions of tradesmen and women across the UK, are being launched online. Occupations ranging from chimney sweeps to weapons dealers are included in the 7.8 million names published by Ancestry.co.uk.
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01/09/2009
The Price of Fame? About $750 (O'Reilly Media)
I spent about an hour yesterday morning on the phone (at Canada's rather obscene cell phone rates) speaking with an "editor" for Continental Who's Who. The pitch is pretty typical (and I had an idea what was going on, so I decided to follow through with it) - you get an email congratulating you on being selected for inclusion in the Who's Who directory of "famous people", please send in the ...
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01/09/2009
Where are newspapers going? It's up to you (Journal Inquirer)
Forty years ago today the Journal Inquirer became a daily afternoon newspaper and published its first edition, merging the weekly paper that had served the Rockville area (the Journal, founded a hundred years earlier) and the weekly that for the last few years had served South and East Windsor (the Inquirer).
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01/08/2009
CLI for fun: du (Linux Today)
Okii Living: "A good example of a CLI command that is very useful is the du command. I am always interested in how much disk space a particular file or folder is taking on my hard drive. This is especially important to know when writing data to removable media that is limited in size such as a CD or DVD."
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01/06/2009
Simple backup utility sSync bugfixed (Drobe.co.uk)
Published: 23rd Dec 2008, 00:00:32. sSync 0.02 by Carlos Michael Santillan synchronises two given directories to make sure they both stay up-to-date.
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