Danemco
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Clever Names for Newsletters
I work with a very creative & original group of ladies every day. Lately, I spoke with one of my clients, Kathy Sims from The Enchanted Quilt (a quilt store in Wichita Falls, Texas). Because her store has an "enchanted" and "magical" feel, she named her monthly newsletter the "Magic Moment ...
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International Quilt Market in Houston
I had the most wonderful time in Houston this past week. I was lucky to attend the International Quilt Market in Houston! We had our company's booth near the main entrance, we were lucky to get such a great booth location. I spoke to hundreds of people in the ...
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A Positive Customer Service Experience
Just a quick post today -- here's an example of good customer service in action. I purchased something online but I accidentally let the browser auto-fill our Idaho Falls address instead of our new St. George address during checkout. When the package didn't come, we looked into the issue ...
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Inspiring Blind Man
One of my favorite parts of my job is interacting with all different types of people from different backgrounds. It's inspiring for me to meet people who have overcome great obstacles to get to where they are in life.
Yesterday I had the opportunity to train one of our ...
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Launched Free Quilt Classifieds
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Hurray! After months of work, we launched a new website today, Free Quilt Classifieds! This website lets you list your quilting, sewing, and craft supplies for free. Quilters all over the world now have a place to go to list their used longarm machines, sewing machines, etc. Crafters can list ... -
Django + PHP to run on the same domain
Today I figured out how to put Django and PHP to run together on the same site using the Lighttpd web server. I googled around to see if anyone else had accomplished this feat, but haven't found anyone that did, so I thought I'd post how I did ...
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My experience buying Vista
I bought a copy of Vista last night. Yup, I did it. If any of you know me, I'm a huge Linux nut, and I find myself much more productive on my Linux machine than any other OS. But I need it to run Quickbooks, so I broke down ...
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Some Thoughts On Time Management
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I was recently challenged by someone I respect very much to find a way to squeeze in another hour's worth of work in a day without working an extra hour. I kind of shrugged off the challenge, thinking it was a good idea, but more like a "yeah, but ... -
Busy At Work
Danemco has been very busy. Last year around this time, things slowed down to give us a chance to work on our own projects (the things that are generally important but not urgent). This year, however, has been the opposite. Danemco has never been busier.Some exciting things: we picked ...
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How To Convert AVI to FLV
I have to look this up every time, so I thought I would save someone the trouble. This is how I convert AVI files to FLV using FFMPEG:
ffmpeg -y -i IMGP2371.AVI -ab 56 -ar 44100 -b 200 -r 15 -f flv /tmp/candles.flv -s 320x240
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Book Finished And Published
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I did it! I wrote a book and it was printed this past week! I am so thrilled. My goal was to wwrite a 120 page book. It ended up being 138 printed pages. It was a great experience and I look forward to writing my next book... what will ... -
Writing A Book
Have you ever written a book before? I'm writing my first book ever. I hope to have it done by tomorrow so that I can edit it and have it printed next week in time for International Quilt Market later this month.
It's kind of fun. I find ...
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