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BMW’s Technorati Authority Rises to 556

November 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Since the folks at Technorati announced last month they were changing the way they calculate a blog’s “Technorati Authority,” I’ve been stumped by the low number (70) displayed in the Technorati widget near the bottom of this blog’s left sidebar.  After all, I’ve been blogging full-time for more than three years and think I deserve [...]

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Attorney Says Unedited Versions of the Oklahoma City Bombing Surveillance Tapes Are ‘Somewhere’

September 30th, 2009 · 12 Comments

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By Bob McCarty at BobMcCarty.com
“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

September 18th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Flashback: What BMW Looked Like Years Ago

September 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments

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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Blogger Gets Black Eye (No Racial Overtones)

August 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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