February 2008 - Posts

• YouTube and Starbucks shut down!

  YouTube service was disrupted on 2/24/08....this apparently was an effort by a foreign government to block access to some video clips they did not agree with. The government's telecommunications authority regulator of that nation's telecom, ordered the Read More... Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:12 AM by wholderman | 0 Comments

• Lickable Ads.....EEEUUUWWW!

  What will they think of next? Some magazines are going to try out this strategy for marketing consumable products. Welch's is apparently going to take out full page ads in People's Magazine this month so readers can sample it's grape juice by licking Read More... Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 8:22 AM by wholderman | 0 Comments

• Delegates and Superdelegates....I'm so confused!

  Superman, Superwoman, Super Lotto, Super Mario, Supernatural, Superficial....and then there's Superdelegate....what does that mean? Oh, and by the way, did you know there's District-level delegates, At-Large delegates, Unpledged party-leader delegates, Read More... Posted Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:23 PM by wholderman | 0 Comments

• Stocks Up......Stocks Down......

  .......and round and round we go. I'm not an avid stock-watcher by any means but I did notice recently an article featuring the historical performance of a "Members Only Warehouse" stock, it was very stable and often progressive........and I know why! Read More... Posted Sunday, February 17, 2008 5:00 PM by wholderman | 0 Comments

• Numero Uno

  Did any of you get a chance to watch the finals of the Westminster Kennel Club competition? Well, it was delightful! Precocious and so precious was the baying, bouncing, and barking beagle named Uno, and he had won! He apparently was a consistent crowd Read More... Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 4:37 PM by wholderman | 0 Comments

• MRIs Assess Love Levels

  With February 14th looming near, I was encouraged to read that at the Story Brook University in New York, "functional magnetic-resonance imaging" can analyze the brain while you're looking at a photo of your true love. The machine records changes in oxygen Read More... Posted Monday, February 11, 2008 9:23 AM by wholderman | 0 Comments

• Babies in the Classroom?

  In the 2/5/08 edition of the Wallstreet Journal (frontpage I might add), there was an article titled "Empathy Lessons in School"...it caught my eye, so I kept reading......a Canadian nonprofit group called "Roots of Empathy", is now bringing to some U.S. Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:44 AM by wholderman | 0 Comments

• Did you know there's an 11th Commandment?

  Well, at the Holderman Household anyway......one evening last week, two of my colleagues and I were out for a business dinner, and one of the appetizers on the menu looked quite appealing, so I ordered it-two whole cloves of baked garlic, roma tomatoes Read More... Posted Sunday, February 03, 2008 7:25 PM by wholderman | 0 Comments