So as a result of those hours on the phone discussing how batteries work and what could have gone wrong and where the NTSB investigation might be headed, when someone proposed speaking directly to a business audience I decided to give it a try.

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This year, I decided I was going to give it a try and see if I could get some bargains.

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"I just want to give it a try and see what happens, " he said in an interview last week in a home studio littered with spools of thread and bags of fabric.

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It's a pretty long conversation that I'll try to summarize here, but I suggest you give it a listen to get all the details on why 720p may be better for gaming than 1080i or even 1080p (which the PS3 will apparently have and the Xbox 360 doesn't).

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As mentioned in my last blog post on refinancing, I opted to give Lending Tree a try because it had seemed to work well in a previous episode.

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Or that I would have rushed up to the counter and asked the airline employees to give it a try.

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But after I reviewed some space saving, award-winning luggage here at Forbes.com, I was contacted by Don Chernoff, President of SkyRoll, who asked me to give it a try.

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"I can't say that I am optimistic for what is going to happen, but I know that to the extent that I can, I will try to influence those of my friends who voted angrily the previous time now to give (it) a second thought, " she said.

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