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“Someday, somewhere, somebody is going to have the guts to release that stuff,” said David P. Schippers, speaking to me by phone from his office in downtown Chicago Tuesday afternoon.
The “stuff” to which Schippers was referring is surveillance-camera footage recorded in [...]

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This is my 3,144th post at Bob McCarty Writes.  What have I learned while keeping my eye on the world during almost three years as a full-time blogger?  A lot and nothing at all.
Among many things I could share is the fact that I now realize one can really never know how popular a post [...]

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After reading the UK Telegraph article, How 20 popular websites looked when they launched, I thought it might be interested to show what this blog looked like in its early days.  Below are Bob McCarty Writes home page screen shots from November 2006 and July 2007.

Let me know what you think.  Has it improved?  [...]

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Three nights ago, yours truly was engaged in a game of pickup basketball at the local city recreation complex when a competitor’s stray elbow made contact with my face, leaving me with a black eye.
The next morning, I awoke to find myself with a black eye (left photo).  Two days later, the eye (right photo) [...]

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Bob McCarty Writes welcomes a new advertiser today in the form of CLEANpHIRST™, a St. Louis-based company offering a range of revolutionary cleaning and hygiene products to help you minimize health risks posed by unwelcome allergens, bacteria, germs and viruses in your home, school, workplace or other location.
I encourage all of my readers to visit [...]

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