The James Logan Courier

By Kristine Hansen
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MCT)

MILWAUKEE — Around-the-clock Internet access, and a wealth of information online, quickens the pace at which consumers decide to buy — whether it's a handbag, vacation or a house.

Househunters and their realty agents who use online tools strategically are a step ahead of the game. Listings can now sparkle, dazzle and convince. A deal can swim through faster than the old days of faxed listings, with the potential buyer having little more than a piece of paper in hand before the first showing.

By Craig Crossman
McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)

Now that you've owned a digital camera for a while, chances are your collection of digital photographs is growing to the point where they're becoming completely unmanageable. If you find yourself drowning in a sea of digital images and you just can't remember where you stored that picture of cousin Betty at the beach that you took on your vacation two years ago, you might want to consider the benefits of tagging.

From wikipedia:
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and poet, born in Savannah, Georgia, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, and an autobiography.

When Conrad Aiken was 11 years of age, his physician father killed his mother, then himself. According to his own writings, Aiken found the bodies of his parents. was raised by his great-great-aunt in Massachusetts. Aiken was educated at private schools and at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, then at Harvard University where he edited the Advocate with T. S. Eliot. Aiken graduated in 1912.

Read The House of Dust; a symphony by Conrad Aiken, free from Project Gutenberg.