Archive for August 1st, 2008

• Time to get our creativity on

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  Discovered August 1, 2008 at 1:17 pm

  A well-designed postcard for SparkCon caught my eye in Morning Times, so I had to log onto their site. Turns out it’s a September conference for creative people in the Triangle. The topics range from graffiti and fashion to yoga and storytelling. Guess where I hope to be Sept. 19-21.

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• $600.00 for some cake? Make that CakePHP

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  Discovered August 1, 2008 at 12:30 pm

  I’m no programmer but CakePHP sounds interesting. Per wikipedia, CakePHP is an open source web application framework written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails.  So if CakePHP is your thing check out their workshop on  Sept 6&7, in Raleigh, NC. Cost is $600 to attend and $500 for students.

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• Are we friends?

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  Discovered August 1, 2008 at 11:39 am

  You had to know this was coming.  As we continue to grow and market 30THREADS, we launched a FaceBookfriend/fan page. We’ll use it to, post pictures, some archives of our upcoming video show and to let our readers know about upcoming events such as future live streaming shows and blogger bashes.

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• Infamous Durham house finally sells for over $1 million

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  Discovered August 1, 2008 at 10:45 am

  If you’ve been around the Triangle long enough to remember the Michael Peterson homicide trial, then you’ll understand why it’s significant that his former house was recently sold. The staircase in the house is where Peterson’s ex-wife died. Bull City Rising has the scoop.

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• Something we all want to do;save money, a new site to help

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  Discovered August 1, 2008 at 10:43 am

  Now this is a site that I would like to see around for years to come, it’s called couponsNC, a new Triangle based coupon site. I love its mission statement too, “to help you save money at local merchants in the Triangle area” Now who doesn’t want to save some money? Good luck [...]

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• Did you hear about the dog with the prothestic leg?

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  Discovered August 1, 2008 at 9:36 am

  It’s no joke. Cassidy the German shepherd was fitted with a prosthetic leg by surgeons at NCSU Thursday morning. But before you start questioning whether it’s worth the time and money to provide a pooch with such hardware, consider this:

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• Researching Raleigh’s past gets a little easier

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  Discovered August 1, 2008 at 9:29 am

  If you’re like me, you can get lost in a book of historic photos. I love seeing where the city I live in has been. So thanks to the Raleigh Philosophical Society for clueing me in that some of Raleigh’s historic photos are available online. I particularly like this one.

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