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Graeme Parkinson … South Africa on the Horizon … Swimming with Hippos
I just got back from my almost-full-month spent in Savannah, and while I had a wonderful time across the board with everyone in the Mothership, one of the highlights was getting to meet our new sales manager for Europe and the UK, Graeme Parkinson.
Graeme was in Savannah for eight days of training
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26/01/2012 18:01:49
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Holiday Travels … End of the World Party … and … Happy New Year, 2012
This blog was written as fast as my fat little fingers could type in hope I could get it posted in time to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and absolutely Mayan-proof Happy New Year. But the office closed down just as I hit the send button.
This happens to be every year. You’d think I cou
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05/01/2012 16:18:35
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Okay Jackson
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Hallmark Moments ... Dung Showers … and … Happy Navidahanukwanzasolsstikkah To All …
You will be as relieved as I was to learn that K2 (Kevin and Kris) survived their
up close and personal examination of a hippo’s mouth last month during a special
Disney safari held over Thanksgiving.
Yes, hippo – as in hippopotamus – the killer
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08/12/2011 20:21:32
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Okay Jackson
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Response to Readers … Holidays Dead Ahead … and … Gok Me, Please!
The following, gentle readers, is my response to the many comments received about the most recent blog. After you open this you can find the comment-able blog by clicking at the right of the screen. And you should read it, otherwise the next three paragraphs will make even less sense than usual.
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22/11/2011 20:49:46
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More Flatulence News … Coral Snakes … and Making Conversation
When I last called the office Kris was having annoying technical problems with both the blue button phone (see earlier blogs) and her computer. Naturally I thought of the cobbler’s children and their shoes. And if you don’t know what a cobbler is you are too young to be reading this blog.
Prior to
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24/10/2011 20:45:11
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The State of the Union … Tracking Travel … and … … Shiver Me Timbers
Kris and Kevin this week (independently of each other) told me there’s been no slowdown for QiSOFT in today’s economic climate, proving that a good product will always find buyers!
And, based on watching the constant parade of ships in and out of Savannah’s harbor on the river below her window, Kr
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29/09/2011 21:47:25
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Okay Jackson
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Natural (as opposed to “unnatural”) Disasters … Pirate Gatherings … and Franklin the Matador
Faithful readers will remember I work from one of our Florida offices, so gathering relevant material for these blogs generally begins with a phone call to the Mothership in Savannah, Georgia.
It wasn’t until the phone rang and rang and was finally answered with a tentative “Hello” from Franklin t
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16/09/2011 17:55:08
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Okay Jackson
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Pen to Paper … Flatulent Manatees … and Spanish Soap Operas
This morning over coffee I pondered the saying that the hardest years in life are those between 10 and 70. Right then my 5-year-old grandson began wailing over an injustice done him by his 7-year-old sister and their 9-year-old brother came in and smacked them both.So, upon reflection, I think the
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08/08/2011 19:19:05
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Okay Jackson
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Summer Spin-offs … Bucket-listing Catalina … Kidbits
I called and asked Kris if QiSOFT stocked any software in a Size Medium, but she said all they had left were in a Size Small as that was their biggest money maker. We both then laughed hysterically at our Aquarian humor.
Kris was just back from Sam’s big birthday bash in California. She and Kevin f
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19/07/2011 20:21:01
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Okay Jackson
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Craig’s List Pith Helmet … Good Press … and a company KISS.
This past week I, too – like Kelly and Sam – made a pilgrimage to the Mothership
in Savannah and it was lovely. For starters, I got to see everyone eyeball to eyeball,
the best way I know to make sure they haven’t been telling me big fat lies about
what they’ve been up t
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05/07/2011 20:36:38
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Okay Jackson
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Summertime Reflections … Keeping it Simple and Effective … plus Suicide Watch in the Elderly
Summertime has arrived in Savannah and anyone who has ever been there in June, July
or August knows siestas were invented in the hot countries for a reason.
No one was asleep when I called the Mothership this past week, but everyone was
moving ve
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10/06/2011 01:33:32
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Okay Jackson
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Overcoming Bad Karma …Webinars … and Trustworthy Sam
Life as we QiSOFTees know it has returned to normal at the Mothership, because the Big Kahuna is back staring out his office windows at his spectacular views of Old Savannah.
And the staff, who ran amok during his absence to Italy last month (details in previous blog), have returned to shuffling a
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25/05/2011 12:45:23
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Okay Jackson
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Italian Views … Parent-Child Relationship Tracking … and Holding Down the Fort, QiSOFT Style
Kris has sent me a couple of emails this past week, all about admiring the views of the Tuscany countryside from every window of their villa while Kevin slaves away getting some uninterrupted work done. It all sounds perfectly lovely to me and I’m glad they are enjoying their time there.
Kevin an
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06/05/2011 15:35:06
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Okay Jackson
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Strategy meeting … Gary Sheard (“Doctor” to you) … and Surviving the Interstate
Addicted QiSOFT blog readers will remember I last left you with me getting my laptop ready for the strategy meeting in Orlando. I arrived with expectations of The Boss teaching me how to hook up my new QiSOFT mailbox, but he quickly learned teaching me anything new on the computer is on a par with t
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29/03/2011 23:36:50
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O'Kay Jackson
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For Love of Words…an Orlando Meeting…and SuperFranklin.
I was telling my young grandchildren this morning that arachibutyrophobia (which my spell check doesn’t recognize) is not a fear of spiders as one could logically suppose (it actually means having a fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth), when it suddenly occurred to me that
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16/03/2011 00:08:50
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O'Kay Jackson
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The Savannah Connection … Don Anthony … and Wiener Dog Scribbles
I returned for a visit to the mother ship this past week and was pleased to see everyone snap to attention when I was patrolled slowly through the hallowed halls, hands clasped behind my back. I had my son, Forrest (visiting from Seattle) with me and as we passed Al in the hallway, Al suddenly looke
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01/03/2011 18:38:26
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O'Kay Jackson
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World Travelers … 4-H … and the Meaning of Blog
I have been across the Atlantic Ocean to England by ship and plane some 40 times in my lifetime and I considered myself somewhat of a world traveler until I began blogging for a company where 40 trips a year across the Western Ocean wouldn’t be thought excessive!
Case in point, Kelly, who was here
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08/02/2011 16:44:27
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O'Kay Jackson
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Just Plain Scrummy … Time and Travel … Looking Sideways at Technology
It is 2:30 p.m. and I have diddled most of the day away trying to avoid sitting down at the computer to actually write something. And for those of you who think sitting down to write something is a lot easier than what you do for a living, please try to remember how your heart sang when your high sc
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19/01/2011 22:55:05
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O'Kay Jackson
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Happy Holidays … Scrummy Scrums … and Head Cold Cures
Tiz the Season and the QiSOFT office will be closed from the 27th through the 3rd of January – except for technical support, of course, for neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail, nor dark of night (nor 20-degree temperatures in Florida) will stop technical support for QiSOFT customers should they need i
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04/01/2011 16:33:53
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O'Kay Jackson
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Conference Confidence…Tea Time…and Skype (don’t grab)!
The First Annual QiSOFT Development Conference shook the hallowed halls this month when Americans and Brits (and Brit-now-American) gathered in the conference room to go nose-to-nose in hammering out decisions for the company’s future. It sounds exhausting, and it was, but everyone left confident it
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30/11/2010 21:51:44
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Redcoats on the Horizon … the Peace Corps … and Victor Meldrew
The British are coming! The British are coming. Yes, on April 9, 2011, Delton and Cathryn Jackson and my grandsons, Joshua and Elliot, will arrive in the states from York via… whoops … wait a minute . sorry … wrong Brits!
To begin again, this very month we will have five Brits from our UK office f
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05/11/2010 16:45:04
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O'Kay Jackson
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Pen Winners … New Employee … and Passionate Resume’ Tips
WINNERS of the big QiSOFT company pen giveaway are – TahDah - Janet T. Godfrey, Vicki Cronk, Mike Luxton, Forrest Jackson, Mary Nichols and an Irish Kid. Vicki Cronk and Forrest Jackson earned their pens for constructive comments on linking this blog with Facebook. As I would rather stick a QiSOFT p
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22/10/2010 17:33:31
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O'Kay Jackson
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Office Temp, Part 2…Deafening Silence…and a Blog Offer
I was absolutely, positively, without fail going to bring you the long promised update on activities in the UK office, but Kelly was at her best friend’s wedding in Switzerland this month and couldn’t be skyped. Kelly and her husband, Russ, were also celebrating their first wedding anniversary, so i
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29/09/2010 14:13:09
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“It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s SUPERPHONE!”…and Mass Firings
Five of the mainsprings of the Savannah office (Kevin, Kris, Michael, Melody, Al) are out of the country/town/office for part of this month and they have left me, the Blogmaster, in charge of handling incoming calls.
QiSOFT has been producing industrial software for a quarter century. As far as I
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14/09/2010 21:47:27
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O.Kay Jackson
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My Country Tis of Thee, Computer Upgrades, and True Lies
On Tuesday, August 10, 2010, Kevin went to Atlanta to do the paperwork, answer all the history questions, and perform the hand-over-heart oath-swearing necessary to become an American Citizen. Kevin still talks with that British accent of his and drinks an excessive amount of hot tea, but ev
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27/08/2010 00:44:29
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O'kay Jackson
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A Pink Bike, Quality Service, and Hot Peanut Days
Al, all sunbaked from the family cruise he just went on, got home and went to a “Laughter for Lemonade” benefit to raise money for Ovarian Cancer patients and research. His wife urged him to buy a raffle ticket and, when they pulled his number, he won a beautiful pink “Beach Cruiser” bike to w
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27/07/2010 19:28:31
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O'kay Jackson
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Fireworks, Stomach Pains, and QiSOFT Service.
Kevin DID open up the QiSOFT office to us on the night of July 4th (Yay!) and those of us who showed up to view the spectacular fireworks exploding all over downtown Savannah were soon pointing and yelling “Ohhhhhhhh say can you seeeeeeeeeeee THAT ONE?”
Kevin and Kris were there, and Mike, Julie
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14/07/2010 19:48:39
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O'kay Jackson
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Par-Tay People, 007, and Killer Ducks
There was wild dancing, debauchery, loud laughter, and other unbridled revelry when QiSOFT staff, customers, and friends gathered on June 9 for a party celebrating our new company headquarters.
To be fair, the activities described above were mostly mine. Actually our party people mainly sipped the
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23/06/2010 20:52:15
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O'kay Jackson
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Volcanic Threats, Wet T-Shirts, and Snow Balls.
Neither rain, nor hail, nor dark of night, nor even erupting Icelandic volcanoes, will keep our intrepid leader off a flight when there’s business to be done overseas. Despite that big ash hanging overhead, Kevin recently flew to the UK to install his daughter (Kelly Hardy) as Director of Global Sal
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01/06/2010 16:50:33
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O'Kay Jackson
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Weight Loss, Translations, and Fish Faces
Our boss, Kevin – in response to a bet for a new wardrobe from Kris – is visibly losing weight on a daily basis. At least they both said the bet was for a new wardrobe, but at the rate he’s taking it off I suspect there’s an – ahem – “special bonus” for him in that bet somewhere.
He’s getting so s
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05/05/2010 16:45:27
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O'Kay Jackson
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New Digs, Picture Windows, and a Smooth Move.
You will recall that Kriss job description includes a little bit of everything. This month it has included dancing around in downtown traffic to keep parking areas clear for moving trucks when QiSOFT relocated its offices to the top of the tallest building in Savannah.
For the past eight years comp
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21/04/2010 23:57:39
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O'Kay Jackson
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St. Pat’s Review, New Web Page, and Lost in Parking Land.
Im in and out of the QIsoft offices like a cool breeze, and when Im there I move from workspace to workspace (mug of Kriss excellent tea in hand) to chat with everyone and glean blog-worthy material. - I recently bounded into Michaels space and found a young man there I didnt know.
Oh. I dont think
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21/04/2010 23:57:27
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O'Kay Jackson
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The age of Aquarius, Erin and her beads and hiking to York
We've had a baby!
Oliver Robert Whelan arrived Weighing 6 pounds 15 ounces, and because his British Dad, Vincent, is a huge fan of early United States of America history (hes still trying to figure out where the Redcoats went wrong), baby Oliver arrived at 2:39 in the morning on George Washingtons
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16/03/2010 16:34:32
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O'Kay Jackson
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Rome, the Cat's away and high heels!
Kevin and Kris took off on Kriss birthday (Feb. 4) for a quick working visit to
the UK office and then on to Rome and other romantic southern European places, for
a long overdue vacation to celebrate Kris achieving the Big Five Oh.
So when I went into the Savannah office the week after thei
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16/03/2010 16:28:48
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O'Kay Jackson
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A brand new dawn, a brand new day
QIsoft made a New Year’s Resolution to “put a face” on the company this year and we’re going to keep it. We may be mega-tech in product, but all our programs are designed, created, sold, and serviced by people. And it’s the people connection that bonds us in every relationship – from the kissy-kissy
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05/02/2010 20:53:38
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OKay Jackson
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Using data to keep customers, or not!
I've built my business up over 22 years, about the same time it's taken GM to bring their business to the brink following the start of the serious assault on their sales by foreign competition. During the same period most American airlines have managed to achieve the same level of failure, albeit wi
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08/07/2009 14:59:11
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Kevin Luxton
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It only works if you give and take
The internet is becoming a monster, if you didn’t know that already, almost uncontrollable. There are those that believe it needs to be regulated and those that believe it does not but either way it developed a life of its own many years ago and now is practically unstoppable. We all har
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02/06/2009 14:02:59
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Vincent Whelan
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Darius and the Lions den
I know, I know, it’s Daniel and the Lion’s den! However let’s consider the place of King Darius in the story. King Darius in the bible story finds himself trapped by his own foolish despotic deity and forced to throw his most trusted servant into a lion’s den as decreed by his own hand.
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21/05/2009 14:39:48
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Vincent Whelan
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Can data control costs?
Can data control costs?
A 60 watt light bulb uses 43200 kW-hr a month (60x720=43200). The average cost of a kW-hr is $0.10 so the cost per month is $4.30 or $51.60 a year. This is of course assuming that you leave a light bulb on constantly for 12 months. Now that is very u
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06/05/2009 18:53:20
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Vincent Whelan
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Business Development QISoft
Hello Everyone
47.1 million dollars buys a seriously good Quaterback! As a Georgia fan I'm bound to say that but I have been watching Stafford for the last 3 years and he is good.
but..... there's always a but
It seemed to me that New York worked very hard to get Mark Sanchez, in fact VERY hard
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27/04/2009 20:16:09
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Vincent Whelan
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The New QISoft Website & Community
Hi
The QISoft websites are changing and if you are reading this then you have joined our new Community!
Welcome!
The QISoft team will be posting blogs here to highlight new features and changes to our software as well as hints and tips to get the best out of your QISoft product. We also hav
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23/09/2008 09:59:21
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Sam Luxton - QISoft Web Developer
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