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we have an limit of $1,000 (apiece) for our cats. - Jason Kaneshiro
We've never really had a limit. Our Akita, Mungo got a very agressive form of cancer. We spent about 1,300 to get it removed and treated. We had the option of chemotherapy for him but it wasn't guaranteed and cost almost 1500 each treatment. We couldn't do it. The tumor came back, and we spent a bit more on some treatments. Eventually we had to let him go when the [second] tumor began to eat through his skin. That was one of the hardest things we ever had to do. My Molly has been a family member for 10 years and she recently developed arthritis in her hips. That was only about $500 to take care of. She takes regular supplements now. My Pit Bull was probably the cheapest. He just did regular vet visits and got neutered. He was a healthy boy. - Candace Holly
yeah we had to put down a diabetic, blind dog, and a very old cat with breathing problems. Very hard, but both had already lived long lives. if a pet is suffering and with expensive treatements, just extending life is kind of hard to justify. - Jason Kaneshiro
We spent $1000 on a MRI for our 8 year-old chihuahua when he started having seizures. Found out he has a cyst in his brain which could be removed for another $6000 (minimum). We decided not to do it... too risky and too expensive. Nine months later, he's doing fine on medications, but we know it's only a matter of time. All the recent advances in veterinary medicine make these decisions much more difficult than they used to be. - Daniel Zilber
Between 3 surgeries to remove benign tumors in her belly because we didn't know if they were cancerous (which developed because we didn't have her neutered when she was a puppy, so our fault she had to suffer...) and many ear infections, we've spent at least $4K on our shihtzu in the last 5 years (out of the 9.5 she's been around). - Lindsay Donaghe
I'm impressed by all of your generosity. Right now our two twin cats are very low maintenance (three years old) - Jason Kaneshiro
I have loved pets beyond measure (so much so that I'm actually kind of glad I didn't have kids until after one cat was gone) but anything over a total cat replacement cost is more than we'd spend. I'm +1 on Jason... spending money for unnatural prolonging of life in a pet to me is cruel because they don't understand and can't decide for themselves. - Cyndy
I bet most of us just take this question case by case. The best insurance against honking vet bills is being observant and keeping up with the routine stuff, but there just aren't any guarantees. - Chris Baskind
+1 Chris - and get your pet spayed or neutered ASAP when you get a new one. That one thing will make them much healthier, happier, and easier to get along with (no hormones). - Lindsay Donaghe
Quite a bit. They're part of my family (2 cats). Spent upwards of $1000 on the cat before that, 18 years old. Did ultrasound and one surgery - it helped him get some extra time in the San Diego air. He died when I went up for a job interview at Petstore.com. Truth is stranger than fiction sometimes. - AJ Kohn
We spent about $2500 on our dog. Cataracts. Glaucoma. Diabetes. Hypothyroidism. Aortic Stenosis. We loved her so much for the 11 years we had her. - Elliott Ng
There is no limit for our son Chewy: http://is.gd/W8f - Julio
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Exceptional post because it provides rationale for embargoes and when you would use them, and some situational if-then advice that helps one figure out what to do if things don't go exactly as planned. Twitter: @elliottng - Elliott Ng via FriendFeed MT Plugin
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What?? - Michael Forian
Man, I forgot all about that meme. - Akiva Moskovitz
That sounds like a severe personal problem to me. Might want to see a plastic surgeon or two for that. - Candace Holly
I hear they make brass replacements. - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
Chris, how can you stoop so low to get attention ? - Peter Dawson
errrr...this is disgusting. - Elliott Ng
no Chris is disgusting .. ! - Peter Dawson
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$50.00 - Kyle Lacy
$1,500+ - Brandon
To license it as one user or for exclusive rights? - Adam Helweh
Don't really have a need for a custom Wordpress theme done by someone.I am able to customize most stock Wordpress Themes to suit my needs. - Michael Tefft
For a professional theme for a business site I'd pay at least $500 - $1000 - Glenn Slaven
+1 Glenn - Kyle Lacy
$250 if it met all my unique needs ;) - Elliott Ng
3 easy payments of 19.99 and they throw in a bread knife. - (jeff)isageek
but if you call now, we'll cut it to just 2 easy payments! - Chris Kim A
Two easy payments of $49.99! - Andrew Trinh
And one f*cking hard payment! - Kyle Lacy
I'm with Michael Tefft. I can't see paying for a theme cuz I have no probs hacking the bloody hell out of a free one. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
A base one that I had full rights to redesign and resell? Hmm.. - Shey
BUT WAIT! Call now and you'll get a second custom WordPress theme absolutely FREE! - Shey
+1 Kyle - Michael J Cohen
And we want the third payment in WOMPA - Kyle Lacy
50 - Caroline
Seems like you might be able to tweak some free ones and offer that as a service - Cheryl Allin
Cheryl, I like where you're going with that... - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)
Take a look at demo.rockettheme.com - Joomla template club, but they offer cool templates with tons of personalization easily implemented. So, tweak a free WP theme and add a one code line change so downloaders can pick from several 'looks' without hacking away themselves. ? - Cheryl Allin
Variations of free templates is a plus on both sides - you save time and they save money. :) - Cheryl Allin
are we referring to full design and writing of the wordpress template? Then I'd say around € 1000 is the maximum for me. I am currently looking for a service who can built me a wordpress template based on my own photoshop design. any ideas how much I should spent on that? - Marcel van der Laan
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A Cute Mistake: Smiling iPhoneGirl Dials World Fame
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She's not "so fired" after all. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Steven Hodson posted an entry on WinExtra
Wednesday at 11:31 am - Link
Good stuff Steven - reminds me of that discussion we had a while back about the early adopter crowd drifting further and further away from the mainstream. - Frederic
The Passionates, for the most part, are unfortunately not objective because The Passion is their bread and butter. But those who want more than a niche will pay attention to how the other 98% use the internet. - Logical Extremes
Spot on. - l0ckergn0me
Brilliant post - Mo Kargas
Awesome! - Lindsey Smith
The "passionates" thing struck me as a bit dissonant, too. Scoble is right: this technology isn't user friendly enough to have wide appeal -- yet. But it's the start of smart browsers. And I *do* think you'll see mom and pop happily swimming in that pool someday soon. - Chris Baskind
I'm with Scoble on this. He's just saying that Ubiquity is not for everyone and that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's on the same vein as Jeff Atwood's two types of programmers post. http://www.codinghorror.com/bl... - Alan Le
And I don't agree that the internet is grouped into passionates and nons, unless he means those who are passionate about web technology and those who aren't. Just about everyone is passionate about something. We just aren't all passionate about the same things that Robert or Dave or whoever is passionate about. - AlexScoble(Robert'sBro)
I just left a comment on the blog that just might choke a hippo. - Mark Dykeman
yer either with us or again' us. it's teh merican way. - jeneane is in the house
@Mark .. it was a great comment ... I'll be getting around to replying to all of them shortly as I just finished posting tonight's Discussion Point. - Steven Hodson
youre ok steven. I think early adopters are overrated. For example if you were a home theater early adopter you'd have bought an HD-DVD and a LCD for 10,000 that are now obsolete or a big waste of money. More and more I see the wisdom of being a "fashionably late early adopter"... let the early adopters waste their time / money, kick back and reap the benefits of their work. - Jason Kaneshiro
great post...many people use tech as a tool to help them achieve things in what they ARE passionate about. - Elliott Ng
Good one Steven. Scoble does bring some seriously interesting stuff to his stream. Blocked him once a long (long) time ago. It was a mistake. Noisy? I'm starting to think I'm noisy. Maybe it's a disease :) Love the new blog look. Keep it up - Charlie Anzman
@Jason - I like the idea of the "fashionably late early adopter" - it's cheaper! - Mark Dykeman
@Jason, I totally agree. I consider myself to be one of those and appreciate the time I save by learning from those who get there a few minutes before me. - Kate
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Omega - Jeremiah Owyang
Visa - Arthur Guy
McDonald's, Phelps - Craig Eddy
Home Depot - Mike Reynolds
Barack Obama - DJ Lein
Kellog's Corn Flakes - Shannon
Michael Phelps. Usain Bolt - john conroy
Puma - Shey
Rona, VISA, McDonald's - tamera
li ning - Anatol via twhirl
Canon. - Yolanda
Coca Cola - Lisa Creech Bledsoe via twhirl
Lee Kum Kee - imabonehead
Coca Cola - Alan Le
Lenovo - Kevin C. Tofel
NBC and VISA - Adam
Shawn Johnston, Nastia Liukin, Lenovo, Li Ning brand ambush of Adidas - Elliott Ng
coke mcdonalds sprite puma - Kyle A Koch
Coke, Visa - Morgan
Michael Phelps. I don't notice the consumer brands - Sally Church
Cisco - Jody C
Michael Phelps - Dave Wirsching via twhirl
nike vs adidas - Lee Kent
usane bolt - James Cooper
Coke. And Li Ning (apparently the Chinese Nike) - Ryan Kuder
Speedo - Cyndy
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Here in Canada we were subjected to the "Mr. Muffin" ad during CBC coverage WAY too many times. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.... - Andrew Codrington
Puma and Nike. - Steve Garfield via twhirl
i feel like it *should* be lenovo, but i think of visa - Amanda via twhirl
nike - Dan McCall via twhirl
audi - Paul Whitaker
Lenovo - Sue Radd
NBC - Mark Bean
China - Fons Tuinstra
Visa - Melanie Reed
Olympic Caning event. Who can get as many wacks in to the troubled teens in a minute? - Christopher Welle
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Friends, we need your help. Google can’t find us. - Travel Industry News - UpTake Blog
Monday at 11:37 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Shameless begging for your linklove so Google knows that we are making a legit move to UpTake.com from Kango.com. The chart above is a great case study from Wendy Piersall's move from eMomsAtHome.com to Sparkplugging.com. Now UpTake is in the "When I Didn't Sleep" zone....YIKES. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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August 24 at 8:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"China's economy may be lagging behind the US, but it is miles ahead in optimism, dynamism, and patriotism" - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Al Jazeera English coverage in Beijing
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Al Jazeera English coverage in Beijing
August 22 at 5:18 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
I don't trust US media anymore to report the whole story, and of course the Chinese media is controlled and biased. Melissa Chan of Al Jazeera did a great job with the Sichuan Earthquake and the team has done a fantastic job with Olympics coverage as well. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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August 22 at 5:14 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Great Al Jazeera report on the sentencing of the 2 elderly women in Beijing - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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bed and breakfast minisite launched. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Hostel central launched. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Motels site launched. Not sure why people would search for motels alone but they do. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Getting into the campgrounds information biz - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Launched cheap hotels minisite - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Pet Friendly Hotels
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Launched Pets minisite - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Romantic getaway central launched. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Shared UpTake's new Family Hotels minisite. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Launched Uptake's new Hotels site - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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August 22 at 3:50 pm - Link
The Economist has an article looking at how Lively, Google’s attempt to establish a foothold in the virtual world market, has flopped. - Mitchell Tsai
Seems a little early to label Lively a "flop" - TDavid
Yeah, they should at least wait until it's out of beta. - Kevin Fox
The article describes five other flops (non-successes) - Mitchell Tsai
+1 @kevinfox. lolz - .LAGizmoto
One of them being Gmail? - Chris White
Gmail's a 'miss' because it doesn't yet surpass Y!Mail and Hotmail in market share? MacOS must be a miss as well... - Kevin Fox
Sorry to make an obvious point, but Google doesn't seem to do well with "community" building applications. Just search. Do search companies have a hard time with social apps for some reason? - Elliott Ng
Google Calendar could become a "miss" because it only offers simple ICS and basic CALDAV. However there is literally zero social functionality for events. I would rather post events on Eventful (though ugly) and let it auto-export to Upcoming and Google Calendar (ics) - Glenn Batuyong via twhirl
I guess from a strict numbers comparison, then (in the case of gmail) Google might have missed. But seriously, the other two mail services don't come close. So from my tweeny perspective, Google has swung and hit. Same with the other Google Services I use. I guess that's why I use them. - Stu Andrews via twhirl
Lame article. We don't expect Google to be Midas. We expect them to innovate, take risks, and occasionally fail on the way to creating great new products. - Ozan Onay
Its not only comm building that Google does not seem to be on cutting edge. Even its core, Search engine, was innovative, simple and worked better that the rest at the time of its inception. Currently, it is still prefered by many and has a stable growth of usage and following, but its one-time advantage (back in 1998), based on page indexing, is not any more competitive. The reason why Google still dominates in the West is its excellent branding and simplicity of search engine. - Hayk Hakobyan
I find it sad that they've reached that pinnacle where it's time to knock them down. I want to believe in Larry and Sergei & am thankful they have power. - timedalkat
Stupid article. While I am a not a cheerleader, I think they have done just fine. I really couldn't care if Less people use Gmail than YahooMail - GMail is so much better. Suprised they never mentioned Dodgeball or Jaiku. - PC Easy via twhirl
Hayk: The Google advantage for me is not "page indexing" but "CACHING". When pages change/go off-line, Google has an old copy. I didn't like Google any better than HotBot for actual searching. - Mitchell Tsai
Comments on orkut in the US press really highlight US-centricity. Makes me wonder how much else about the rest of the world is grossly mis-reported. - Moishe Lettvin
I have no interest in the virtual world market. Still trying to get a handle on the real world. - Ernie Oporto
Mitchell, Doc Searls had recently posted a blog http://bit.ly/TSsfl about which, Yahoo Search or Google Search, is better. He thinks Yahoo does a better job. - Hayk Hakobyan
@moishelettvin .. everything - gregory lent
One thing you've got to admire about GOOGLE...they keep on trying. They haven't become complacent with just being #1 for search. - Jonathan (Vacation Boy)
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August 22 at 2:41 pm - Link
HAHAHAHA, i thought plurk was the new twitter the past week. - faboo mama
bwaa haaa haaa haaa. I have been angry at Jaiku since I could never get an invite from them. - Elliott Ng
LOL what a joke - Mona N.
Fail. - David Risley
Rejaw is the new Facebook! I mean... wait... - Bwana McCall
the article says it is not new twitter because it is down and failing more and more - Photo Larry via twhirl
503 is the new kill app. - ·[•_•]·
Databases are dead. Genetic mutant super brained children are the new black. - Bwana McCall
Careful with those racial comments, Bwana. :-) - Louis Gray
hahahhaha! +1 LG! - Mona N.
Wait. Now Twitter is the new Twitter! - Ernie Oporto
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August 21 at 4:52 pm - Link
they need to "launch a probe"? - Julio
Hope it doesn't hurt too much her. and where's the probe gonna go? - Elliott Ng
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International Olympic Committee launches probe into He Kexin's age - Times Online
August 21 at 4:28 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Looks like the IOC is finally responding to all the data surfacing about the potential age discrepancy. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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China Digital Times » Liu Xiang Sent to Olympic Death by China’s £1 Billion Image-Building Exercise
August 20 at 3:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Chinese netizens using the meme "Surrender Liu" which sounds exactly the same as Liu Xiang's name (which means "Flying Liu"), to spread discussions that Chinese propaganda authorities are trying to make disappear online. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
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Reactions to Liu Xiang and the nature of Chinese national pride
August 19 at 9:54 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
Interesting commentary by my friend Xiaodi Zhang on the nature of Chinese nationalism/patriotism as exhibited by Liu Xiang and the reactions. - Elliott Ng via Bookmarklet
Elliott, this is a great piece and one that really hits home as an American. I find myself less and less emotionally invested in our Olympians, simply because they seem more interested in personal gain than the greater spirit of the Games as they were intended. It's why I love Kerrie Walsh... 107 matches in a row that she's won, and she is always gracious, always excited to win, and always self-deprecating, looking to improve. Compare her to the track and field competitors... most of the runners are cocky.. - Cyndy
...self-indulgent, and petulant when things don't go their way. I cry at Hallmark commercials, yet fail to be moved by most of the coverage here. Except for the girl who won gold in discus, a sport the U.S. hasn't won in over 70 years. She was excited, she spoke of representing her country, and she was geeked to meet Mary Lou Retton, who she'd idolized growing up watching the Olympics herself. The U.S. needs a lot more of that and a lot less Kobe Bryant. - Cyndy
Thanks Cindy. I thought the swimmers were pretty classy, like Dara Torres. Liked your comment on Twitter - classy "mom" act! - Elliott Ng
There are some, and yes, Dara Torres is one of them. I think a lot of it has to do with youth vs. experience... a good correlary to the Web 2.0 world, no? - Cyndy
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