One major advantages of the rise in gas prices you have probably heard about is the increase in use of mass transit. One of the biggest winners in this game are bus lines, which have seen their first increase in ridership in 50 years!
As this transportation market re-emerges from its slumber, new businesses are [...]

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(ed. - Pardon the gratuitous stock photo, somehow all the other ones seemed boring. The best part of having your own blog is not having any editorial oversight or needing to qualify anything you do)
For the last 13 years, I have worked from home both occasionally as an employee and as a self-employed. I have [...]

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Update: In answer to some emails, the video was created with a Canon HG10 HD Digital Camcorder, a Canon SD870IS for the stills, edited with Pinnacle Studio 11 on Windows Vista Ultimate. A Shure SM57 Microphone was used for the voiceover narration, connected to the PC via Creative Labs X-Fi .

The embedded version [...]

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The Stamford Advocate reports that a replica of the new M-8 Metro-North train cars which are scheduled to go into service very slowly beginning in late 2009, is enroute via a slow boat from Japan.
When it arrives, people will be able to sit in the cars, watch the doors open and close, and be told [...]

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Readers of StationStops who live in the Tri-State area may have High-Speed Broadband Verizon FiOS Fiber Optic Internet available to their home.
In Connecticut, it is available in Greenwich only. For New York, check this list. For New Jersey, check here. To check if Verizon FiOS is available to your home specifically, check the Verizon FiOS [...]

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Guys, don’t be a noob - if you are going to hook up with a $4300 call girl, don’t be all sweet and arrange for her train from Washington to New York - there are *plenty* of fine prostitutes right here in good ‘ol NYC. Especially when you are governor, if you are going to [...]

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Before we start, I just wanted to mention that yes, StationStops does advertise Peapod service (could you tell?).
The reason for this is that Peapod is a service which I specifically hand-chose to promote based on my positive experience as a customer, from thousands of other online advertisers.
As you will read in the review, I feel [...]

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