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Posted in Editorial, Flag Photos, History on Nov 12th, 2008
Now would be a good time to sign up for the RSS feed from The Daily Flag.
Last week I took a small vacation from The Daily Flag, and during that time I made major business decisions about The Daily Flag and Flags Bay.
I will continue to write for The Daily Flag, but I am reducing [...]
Posted in Information on Feb 8th, 2008
In the past month, Flags Bay launched two new information services. This is a good time to review those services, and clarify a few points. One is from The Daily Flag and the other is from Flags Bay’s flag store.
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The first new service is the Subscribe by Email which was added at [...]
Posted in Editorial on Aug 20th, 2007
The Daily Flag’s chief flag flyer is phlegmy today. Which is to say, he is quite ill—laid low by a nasty bronchial stew of mold spores, pollen, and ancient dust, laid down in layer upon layer.
The abundance of this rain summer has resulted in the finest crop of weeds this state has seen in a [...]
Posted in Information on Jul 23rd, 2007
The Stars and Stripes and The Lone Star are flying now, in the front of The Daily Flag offices. All it took was a little thinking and some ingenuity.
It has rained every day since we arrived, until yesterday —Sunday—when the sun finally came back out and the heat returned, too. We took an extended [...]
Posted in Information on Jul 10th, 2007
If you have noticed a certain slowness of late at The Daily Flag, it’s not because we are enjoying a lazy summer. It is time to come clean. Deborah and I are moving this weekend, and the preparations are taking their toll in a number of ways. Busy is the order of the day, what with [...]
Posted in Information on May 16th, 2007
I thought I would explain how The Daily Flag News is put together. The process is harder than you might think, but it’s also a lot of fun.
By building custom searches in my news reader—Google Reader—I look at 100 to 200 news stories every day. So how does that equal the three to five I [...]
Posted in Information on Apr 26th, 2007
Just like other businesses, we at Flags Bay and The Daily Flag have staff meetings. We talk about inventory and revenue, expenses and supplies, the website and computers, software and why I have such a difficult time remembering particular HTML coding, and Technorati tags
Larry will ask what I am working on, which is usually research, [...]
Posted in Information on Jan 5th, 2007
Flags Bay (and The Daily Flag) began, however faintly, in 1959, when Alaska entered the Union as the forty-ninth state in January, and Hawaii became our fiftieth state in August.
As a first-grader, I was enchanted with the idea of far-away Alaska becoming a state. My teacher showed the class the map of Alaska, [...]
Posted in Information on Jan 5th, 2007
The online Flags Bay store will open soon, selling United States and state flags in a variety of qualities and sizes.
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