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  • See immediately prior post. The entry deadline for submitting your guess at ARC’s Q1 2009 revenues has been extended to May 1, 2009.

  • This post is another brief follow-up to previous posts about ARC’s stock price. (ALSO, IF YOU WANT TO ENTER A CONTEST AND WIN A PRIZE WORTH $100, READ THIS ENTIRE POST.) In one of my previous posts, I suggested that there are at least two ways to make money in the reprographics business: (1) earn…

  • On March 31st, 2009, Tanner Bechtel posted an excellent article on his blog-site. That article is entitled “Call for the Project CIO”. Do yourself a favor, visit his site and read that post. Tanner’s blog-site is located at this web-address: http://www.tannerbechtel.com After reading Tanner’s article, do yourself another favor; for firms you do business with…

  • IRGA Members recently received an e-mail from OCE in which OCE announced that it would be introducing its new Plotwave 300 system at the IRGA Convention in Pittsburgh. Although I’ve not yet read the OCE Plotwave 300 brochure (or technical specifications), it looks like this system is OCE’s response to the KIP 3000 (now KIP…

  • As of April 9th, my blog-site has been visited by 127 “unique” visitors. My blog-site has been accessed by visitors from 10 different countries (U.S., Canada and eight countries in Europe.) My blog-site has been accessed by visitors from 29 states in the U.S. Please kindly refer my blog-site to your friends and associates in…

  • Very recently (in a Press Release dated 26 Feb 2009, but which I just found posted on SP’s web-site), Service Point Solutions, S.A. issued what I would characterize, based on the comments made by SP in that press release, as a rather “rosey” report on its full year 2008 results. However, after looking a bit…

  • The other day, while reviewing and compiling very detailed information about “the typical phases” in a design/development/construction (an A/E/C) project, I came across this description: SIX PHASES OF A PROJECT: * ENTHUSIASM * DISILLUSIONMENT * PANIC * SEARCH FOR THE GUILTY * PUNISHMENT OF THE INNOCENT * PRAISE & HONORS FOR THE NON- PARTICIPANTS

  • Check out “How Bad Is It” (authored by Robert A Murray) published in the March edition of the Architectural Record …… here’s the address for that article: http://archrecord.construction.com/news/economy/archive/0903howbad-1.asp

  • When I first started my blog-site, I did admit that I’m a bit challenged, technologically speaking. Only because a friend (who visited my blog-site) asked me …. “hey, I wanted to post a comment about a post you did, but I was unable to post my comment” ….. did I realize that “posting comments” was…

  • I created and began posting on my blog about one month ago. Since that time, I’ve received quite a number of e-mails (from friends and acquaintances) in the industry asking me …. “what are you doing?” Knowing that I will likely get other e-mails asking that same question, I decided it would be appropriate for…