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POLL: Should the county commission approve a salary supplement for teachers?

Brad Thomas — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:47:18 +0000

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The Rowan-Salisbury School System’s proposed budget includes a $500 per year increase in the local salary supplement for teachers. Should the county commission approve this increase?
Post your opinions below!

POLL: Do you plan to vote in the May 6 primary?

Brad Thomas — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:21:40 +0000

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Do you plan to vote in the May 6 primary? Why or why not? Post your thoughts below and we’ll publish some in an upcoming edition of the Salisbury Post.

Friday Five: Quit Wasting Time On The Internet

Justin Thibault — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:20:43 +0000

This was an article I did last summer, but I thought it would be useful for SalisburyPostables.com readers.

Each week, I read the material of 70 sites without missing one article on topics ranging from local news and politics to religion to my friends websites. However, I’m willing to bet that I visit fewer sites than you do. I almost never go to a site and just browse around. It doesn’t matter though, I get a chance to read every article - from those sites that are updated every hour to those that take more than a month.

How is that possible?

The magic of RSS.

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. The best way to think of it is like a tickertape. While you live your life, losers like me type into their blogs. In addition to having this text spewed in over-complicated layouts, the text is copied onto a standard, bland format. This text can be browsed using a RSS reader. You just collect the various “tickertapes” you’re interested in an cobble them together - creating a river of news. It saves tremendous amounts of time over visiting sites all of the time, and you’ll be up-to-date on any site by just visiting one site - the reader.

So, how do you get started? Well, today’s Friday Five is The Five Easy Steps To Using Google Reader As Your RSS Reader (more…)

POLL: What do you plan to do with your federal tax rebate check?

Brad Thomas — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 18:50:14 +0000

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What do you plan to do with your federal tax rebate check?

Be sure to vote in our poll and give a more detailed response below. The most interesting entries may be published in a future edition of the Salisbury Post.

Friday Five: Bob Orr - By The Numbers

Justin Thibault — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:53:45 +0000

Recently, I announced that I was endorsing Bob Orr for North Carolina Governor. I’ve also spoken at events in Cabarrus and Davidson Counties on behalf of the campaign. In that post, I discussed briefly why I decided to choose him over the other candidates.

For this week’s Friday Five, I’m going to explain why I’m backing Orr using five numbers - 9,797; 16; 4; 0; and 14:

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POLL: Fiber in city’s future?

Brad Thomas — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:25:00 +0000

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The city of Salisbury is considering establishing its own fiber-optic network to offer residents and businesses another option for Internet, telephone, cable and television services.

Should the city get into the fiber-optic business?

Vote in our poll and post your thoughts below

Shout out to my Peeps

Brad Thomas — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:22:25 +0000

Perhaps the only positive byproduct of the over-commercialization of Easter is Just Born, Inc.’s Peeps — the semi-stale marshmallow candy that resemble bunnies, birds and other cute shapes depending on the holiday. If you are like me, you don’t need a holiday to enjoy their sugary goodness, but hey, some folks need a reason to give each other gifts and be nice to each other as well. To each his own, I suppose.

The Washington Post has posted their sequel to their wildly popular 2007 internet hit Peep show in Peep Show II (totally safe for work, btw, unless you snort loudly when you laugh).

Friday Five: Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite

Justin Thibault — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:27:27 +0000

This week, Arthur C. Clarke died on Wednesday at the age of 90. If you know who Arthur C. Clarke is - you’re probably a nerd. He was the last of the "big three" (Asimov and Heinlien being the other two) science fiction writers of the 20th Century.

What made his writing superior? The man was a genius. He came up with the idea of using communications satellites in geostationary orbit as relay stations (the Equatorial geostationary orbit is called the "Clarke Orbit"). He was a RAF Radar Specialist when even the spelling of "RADAR" was Top Secret.

Arthur C. Clark was a master of the gift of taking technical concepts and making them understandable, let alone entertaining. This has been a personal challenge of mine - especially this week as I submit my first paper to ASME. While I’ve yet to hone that gift, others have.

So, for today’s Friday Five: Five Geek Books You Should Read ASAP

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Salisbury Millwork Fire Multimedia Overview

Brad Thomas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:24:03 +0000

The following is a comprehensive collection of all of the multimedia we have for the Salisbury Millwork Fire to date:
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AUDIO: Salisbury Millwork Fire 911 calls

Brad Thomas — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:15:43 +0000

911 recordings reveal life-saving decisions, possible equipment problems during fire at Salisbury Millwork.

We have broken the calls into 8 15-minute files. Each file is approximately 15mb.

AUDIO: Salisbury Millwork Fire 911 calls as they came in.

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