Staal to Appear in November GQ
The Carolina Hurricanes’ sensational Center Eric Staal had a busy Summer. In addition to his numerous championship engagements and shooting spots for EA Sports’ NHL ’07 commercials, the young star did a photo shoot with GQ Magazine. The November issue will feature Staal and should hit the store shelves in the next couple of weeks.
Better Driving Ahead
Nothing to do on a Saturday but peruse the State of North Carolina Driver’s Handbook, right? While Raleigh drivers are generally pretty good, I found a couple of things on which we all seem a little rusty: Interstate Highway Merge "Decide in advance where you must enter and exit the highway" – in other words, [...]
This Stinks
A big debt of gratitude goes out to Mayor Meeker and the Raleigh City Council for allowing me to slow cook my chinese food from last Tuesday night…at 100 degrees…for six days. The smell and insects occupying my back yard have reduced us to looking at it out the window half of the week. As [...]
Raleigh on Flickr
Flickr is an outstanding grass-rootsy photo sharing site. One of its advantages (over sites like Kodak’s EasyShare Gallery) is the ability to tag photos with numerous descriptors instead of placing images in heirarchial folder arrangements. Users can then search for tags and see images across the Flickr database pertaining to a particular subject. A case [...]
Forbes Names Raleigh #2 City For Business
Just days after rating highly with Forbes Magazine’s "coolness factor", Raleigh rates #2 on the magazine’s "Best Places for Business and Careers" list. Durham ranked #8 while Asheville ranked #24. Other NC cities ranking in the top 50 were Charlotte and Wilmington. Raleigh ranked #1 in the reader poll asking "In which of these top-ranked [...]
