"If I could give it a 3.5 I would, but I can't justify a 4, so 3 it is. Went there for the first time, and the burger was pretty good. Epic... up for debate, but it was definitely above average.…"
- Dan Perry
"Ravisloe used to be private, but due to the economy it's now open to the public. It's clear that this course has been touched by Donald Ross. Love the high bunkers around the greens, fairway bunkers…"
- Dan Perry
"Went with the wife for dinner and bowling. Place was really clean; clearly brand new. We bowled 2 games and had dinner. I had 2 beers and wife had 1. The one tip I can give is if you're bowling and…"
- Dan Perry
"Lunch in the Chicago Loop for less than $5? If it's even remotely edible it's a done deal, and this place is way past that. I got the 1/4 with mashed potatoes and a drink for $5.25. Next time I'd skip…"
- Dan Perry
"Played here on a Sunday morning, and was able to get a tee-time! Not so easy to do in the Chicago area. Course was great; conditions, challenge to play, length, saw the cart girl 4 times during the…"
- Dan Perry
"Went here for lunch. It's located underneath the regular Berghoff Restaurant. Had what sounded like an interesting sandwich. It was Forest Ham with Brie and apples. Sounds great, right? Well, it…"
- Dan Perry
WBBM 780 - Chicago's #1 source for local news, traffic and weather - Legendary Cubs equipment manager tossed out of Wrigley - http://www.wbbm780.com/Legenda...
"Legendary Cubs equipment manager tossed out of Wrigley CHICAGO (STNG) - The Chicago Cubs will reach out to longtime former equipment manager Yosh Kawano after the team icon known for his floppy white hat was asked by security to leave Wrigley Field on a day the team was out of town. The incident occurred two weeks ago when Kawano went to the park to visit members of the grounds crew. Three security guards approached him and told him he had been spotted on the concourse security cameras and had to leave."
- Dan Perry
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"Went here for the lunch buffet. The quality of the food was above average, but so was the price for a suburban lunch buffet, IMO. Worth a visit if you want good Indian, but probably not on my usual…"
- Dan Perry
Some of my favorites"# The trick is to squeeze your personality into 140 characters # People follow other people for themselves, not for you, give them something to follow # Be opinionated, but be real. # Don’t hold back on alienating 20% of people when the 80% will love you for it. # Don’t get baited into arguements by numpties (I constantly fail at this one) # Make your avatar high contrasting, use hard tones rather than soft ones # Get people to drop your twitter link into blog articles, there is a way of doing that but that’s for later. # Touch on controversial, strong emotional issues, you don’t have to take a stand just ask a question. Only works when you have a lot of followers, as I have done here. It’s not an empty question as I was very interested in the response and if anyone was sympathetic to them I would defollow and block them. # Provide useful information to your niche # Define what your niche is and isn’t, the narrower you go the more power you will have. # Ignore...
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- Dan Perry
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"Unified search is a cool new FireFox addon that lets you easily combine and compare side-by-side search results from a number of search engines. The tool works as follows: * Search base service - i.e. Google * See Bing search engines appear on the same page; * Notice buttons in the right top corner; * Click on any button to get the search results from the selected service load instead of Bing; * Click an arrow sign to get the search results from the selected service load in the new tab."
- Dan Perry
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"none of today's major search engines work solely from latent semantic indexing. Rather, LSA is being used on top of the more traditional ranking factors. Phill explained to me (emphasis mine): The slew of recent upgrades [Google] released are all based on this LSI layer over the top of their existing index. What that means, is that Google is storing an "ontology" or a semantic profile. [...] They expose their ontology in four key areas right now: the Wonder Wheel (limited), search suggestions at the bottom of the SERP, AdWords Keyword Tool and their search-based keyword tool."
- Dan Perry
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"Had lunch here during the week with a few folks from work. I'm not a Thai aficionado, so i stuck with the Pad Thai, which was exceptional. I also tried what another person had (sorry, forgot name) and…"
- Dan Perry
"Truly a hidden gem in the Chicago area. I'm a little biased for this course because I got a hole-in-one on the 7th hole! So exciting (Pics and a review here:…"
- Dan Perry