100 million reasons to use Flickr

This is a great post on possible uses of Flickr. I think you can use a Flickr account to market Homes as well.

1. Each house you have for sale can be a set. There are so many possibilities here. Integrate them into your website, your blog or even in an email link. With the ability to show individuals, you can also provide a slide show.

2. Create a photo set of all the homes you may have shown a potential buyer. Then they can refer back to refresh their memory. You are taking your digital camera with you on each showing, right?

3. Create a set of potential homes for an out of state buyer.

4. Create a set of photos of the neighborhood and surrounding areas. This is rarely if ever done.

5. Reduce or eliminate the need to store photos on your own web server. I made the move to eliminate all the photos from my web server and host them in Flickr.

In any of these cases you will want to purchase a Professional account so you aren't limited in the amount of photos you upload and store.

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Tony Stewart, coulda, shoulda, woulda

Daytona 500, February 2006. I had great hopes, I really felt like Smoke should have been the man to contend with.

It all started off with Tony complaining several times prior to Sunday’s race that drivers were out of control and will probably kill someone.

Tony coulda won the race if he would have kept his ego in check.

Tony shoulda won the race had he kept his car out of Matt Kenseth's side panel.

Tony woulda won if he would have taken his own advice and backed off.

Maybe next year?

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It’s my type of poem

I tried writing a poem a while back. It was for a contest. I didn't win, but it was fun thinking I might.

I had a wonderful young woman critique this piece, and I will share with you later what she said. for now, here it is:

I'm always amazed at this time of year, nature, slowing down, sleeping

Color dictates the mood then falls to the wayside in an ever eternal cycle

Breath seems to take form and float away

The flowers are gone and the leaves fallen the birds are on a southern path

It's only a short time, a pause if you will before a soft winter coat slowly falls and covers the ground

There, now, this type of poem was supposed to be about free form thinking. It wasn't supposed to be a traditional rhyming poem. I like this type. It lets the writer express in words what they are thinking and not trying so hard to find similar words.

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I can see, really, it worked

I recently had Lasik eye surgery. I think they can call it surgery because an incision is made in the eye. No stiches, but they do make a cut and fold it back.

I've worn glasses pretty much my whole life. They get in the way of course. Well, now I don't have to wear them any more.

Amazing what the results have been. Within 24 hours I was seeing at 20/15.

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How do you PDA?

I've been trying to refine a process in which I can manage my personal life and my work life. Some time ago I purchased and read David Allen's book Getting Things Done, as I'm sure hundreds of thousands have. I don't follow it to the letter, because as with most things, I like to tinker, and well, nothing is one size fits all.

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