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[MILE HIGH COMICS presents THE BEAT at COMICON.com] Sales Chart madness!: Comics sales declined considerably from 1997 to about 2001. You can see the estimated sales for May, 1997 here. (Yes it should be April, 97 but by the time I remembered that I had already formatted this.) For comparison's sake, here's the top 10 in 97 (Matt actually figured out all the ups and downs, bless him):

[The Blue-Gray Sky] Fort Apache: Mullen, a high school teammate of Munir Prince, is a 6'5" 260lb tight end/defensive end prospect that had quite an impressive list of scholarship offers for April. In addition to the offer from Notre Dame, Mullen had written offers from Nebraska, LSU, Ole Miss, Missouri, Oklahoma State, Michigan State, Illinois, and Kansas. As a junior he had a hand injury so he didn't play tight end; he just focused on defensive end.

Ton's Interdependent Thoughts: Your blog is your front porch: ... Blogging is like sitting on your front porch and waving to your neighbors as they walk by. ... A blog lets you put your idea out for everyone to see. ...

fathom: I ordered the book online, and it got sent to my work address.  At the end of the workday I checked my mailbox and there it was.  I was so excited by it that I started reading it while walking out of the building.  I almost fell down the steps, I was so distracted.  I don't think I have been that excited by a knitting book in a really long time.  Her creativity and style are invigorating-- I can't wait to get one of these projects started.  This book is like a shot in the arm for my knitting creativity.

The blog and I...: One of his points is on the lack of understanding that most people have about blogging. Exactly the reason why bloggers are being invited to participate in radio and TV shows, to shed light on what and why they are blogging. The danger of course as Veen points out is that those that gain an awareness of weblogs may then come to regard bloggers as rather eccentric characters, pounding away at their keyboards in a desperate attempt to change the world. I hope this isn't the impression relayed from the Big Bite discussion.

The Computer Vet Weblog - A blog about Carson City, Douglas County ...: Analysis soon showed that the same faultline ran right by the Auburn Dam site, and that the Oroville quake could have been caused by the weight of the water in the reservoir. Construction at Auburn halted while the engineers figured out what to do with this new data, and as months turned into years the American attitude towards dam building slowly changed. Gone were the days of damming every canyon the government could get their hands on, replaced by a more thoughtful approach to flood control. New economic analysis was also done on the Auburn Dam, and by the time the dam had been redesigned to be structurally sound in an earthquake, it no longer looked financially sound.

Applied Global Technologies Releases Fathom: Rockledge, FL – January 20, 2005 - Applied Global Technologies, proven experts in IP collaboration technologies and solutions, announces the release of FATHOM version 3.0 and the extension of network monitoring beyond firewalls. By moving the monitoring to the distributed architecture, FATHOM is able to measure network performance for different subnets, firewall systems and disparate networks. The localized monitoring provides for "Fault Isolation" – accurately determining if a failure is resulting from an endpoint or the network.

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