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Beautiful highways?

peterknight @ July 26, 2008 # One Comment

Somebody in this region tried this some years back: design a garden, with trees, flowerbeds, shrubbery and all, alongside a highway - it’s not too hard to do, as long as there’s some way of providing a water supply and some people willing to undertake a bit of regular maintenance (here, along Provincial Route 5 in Cordoba, Argentina, had the fire brigade of a town nearby provide irrigation services but it went to weed when enthusiasm from the volunteer gardeners ran out).

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Been warned: “Mostly” is mostly … boring!

admin @ July 24, 2008 # 3 Comments

Johnathan Morrow, on the  Copyblogger blog (founded in 2006 by Brian Clark and which is a very interesting and useful place to get stuff on this arcane thing of an Internet Presence has a very thought provoking post:
“How to be Interesting” - Copyblogger
All the sins of being a bore: I have committed most of them! [...]

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“Getting into print”: A (not so) brief tale of books (3)

admin @ July 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet

Drupa, the printing industry’s largest fair (held every four years in Düsseldorf) has ended … and this ‘brief tale’ turned into an assignment - fortunately, finished now: off line and in the hands of the client. Meanwhile, visit the site, it’s worthwhile:
Drupa
So this tale of books got left behind in the middle ages when my [...]

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