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As the debate about the anti-croc movement continued on, I had commented that I had not spent a penny at a Best Buy store in over 10 years.
Chris noticed the comment and asked for an explanation.
Background
When I graduated from college and moved into my apartment, I needed to buy a new television and also planned [...]

How much are you willing to sacrifice in order to reach your goals?
Many of the goals that you set for yourself will not be easy to achieve without some degree of sacrifice on your part. You might have a goal of improving your physical fitness but that is going to be very difficult to [...]

The other day when I posted about the insanity of wearing crocs, I really had no idea that it would stir up that much interest.
With the debate going back and forth on the crocs, I began to notice a somewhat unexpected source of traffic arriving to the site as a result of this post.
Apparently my [...]

Many of you that operate your own blog or website have likely heard of HitTail - the service/tool that provides real time data on the keywords that people use to find your website.
I’ve been a big fan of HitTail for quite some time, although I admit that for the longest time I didn’t really understand [...]

As last week came to a close, I capped off an exciting week with a post about the anti-croc movement that certainly resulted in some interesting discussion.
To capture a little bit of that excitement, I wanted to bring you a few new faces that were a part of my week for this edition of Speedlinking. [...]