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Words, words, words.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Polonius: ... What do you read my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord. - Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark : 2.2 : 191-196 Part of my daily activity on our website is to browse around reading comments ...

Skeletons in the search results

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Every so often I receive an email or phone call from someone asking if I could prevent Google, or some other search engine, from showing a previously published District Court Report in which their name appears. They have discovered that when searching for their name on the internet, a page containing ...

Beach Road / Five Corners Webcam is Back!

Monday, April 21st, 2008

This week marks the return of our Beach Road, Vineyard Haven webcam aimed toward Five Corners from the top of our office building. Be sure to take a look.

A new look for mvtimes.com

Monday, April 14th, 2008

If you visit mvtimes.com regularly, you will have noticed that the general design changed last Thursday. In addition to giving the site a cleaner, more spacious look, the redesign is intended to help create some room and pave the way for new features, like this blog. Changing a website's design can be ...