Revenue is way up at one of the military’s main robot-makers. But iRobot is still operating at a loss for the year. Its stock price took a beating today (along with eveyone else’s). The company’s chairman and co-founder has suddenly resigned. Xconomy reports that “iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner, who has been instrumental in guiding the company since its inception in 1990,” stepped down today. Just last month, fellow co-founder Rodney Brooks left the company. Which means CEO (and new chairman
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Hey, if you are or have a lazy guy or gal in your home you may want to click here as many times as possible between now and Monday. The company is giving away a top prize of two recliners, a year of Molly Maid service, free monthly food deliveries and a Robomower. You can enter online or print out a game piece and take to any store (and, they hope, stay to do some shopping). Like the New York Lottery says “Hey, You never know.”
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Will I Ever Stop Cleaning??? I swear, it seems like all that I do is just clean and clean and clean again. It seems like as soon as I get done cleaning, I have to clean again. It’s madness! I am having organization issues. I need another filing cabinet as well as other types of organizational tools. My dad is making me a console table to set behind the loveseat. I will need a basket to put the mail into for that. Right now our mail gets piled up on the dining table. It annoys me to no end!
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Today is my last day before I go on my big awesome trip to Portland. Rhi was so kind as to give me some ground rules as to what I should expect and/or do while I am there. She’s just so nice like that. So since she was so nice, I’ve decided to be nice as well. And share with you my new favorite website. www.woot.com Typically they showcase one item each day that is both awesome and cheap. Today though, they are doing what they call Woot-Offs where they put up an item until it sells out and t
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From the RRTW Editor: What are you driving? Send your pics! Dailyrecord.com, NJ - 2 hours ago And even with a powerful 429 ThunderJet engine that we occasionally pushed to the limit, we were never in danger inside our chrome-and-steel fortress. …

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