But then I started thinking, does the picture quality at that level really matter?

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Then I started getting contacted by other journalists and bloggers, wanting to interview me about the idea.

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So then I started a company with four other guys, called Motive, which was focused on broadband software.

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But then I started thinking about my own boys, aged 7 and 5, in first grade and kindergarten, respectively.

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But then I started to look more closely at what the server did.

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Then I started playing Skokie, then I started playing downtown in the Loop.

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Then I started thinking about how I plan to pack for the SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando next week.

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For the untrained eye, the landscape looked barren, but then I started noticing details that had escaped the first probe.

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Then I started watching my 87-year-old dad cope with the aging process.

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Then I started looking more closely at the subject lines being generated.

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But then I started getting allergies and I started sneezing a lot.

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Then I started to think how much more fun it would be with a mouse and keyboard rather than an Xbox controller.

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Then I started wearing outfits based on the Peking Opera to perform.

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"When I got home it was tough, but then I started getting these emails from people who were watching the show, " she says.

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Then I started reading Cashbox, Record World and Billboard, the record industry trade magazines and then you started to get a hint of it.

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Then I started to panic: Could the phone be saved?

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And then I started reaching out to them one by one.

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Then I started catching them with regularity (I released them all).

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Then I started hearing about people like myself, young and not very young scholars, allowed to travel to Paris or London for a scientific meeting.

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Then I started wondering how we can get back to work?

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And so, then I started - what I was doing was trying to be a glamour girl, because I had been a tomboy most of the time.

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Then I started competing in the various junior classes that are staged as part of the DTM race weekend as I started out on my own motorsport career.

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Then I started doing some homework on specialty yogurts.

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Then I started to think about my post about How Can I Get Followers On Twitter and how just a handful of followers can really help spread a message that you want to share.

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"I was excited to see the commission waiver for a lot more funds, but then I started looking at the different links they had for further information and I noticed the fine print, " he said.

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Then I started promoting my blog.

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And then I started making lists.

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Then I started corresponding with Enrique Lihn.

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Then I started a financial planning software company, which makes suggestions about what benefits to take from Social Security and when to take them to get the best overall deal. (see, in this regard, www.maximizemysocialsecurity.com and www.esplanner.com).

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