October 2008
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“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.”
– John Kenneth Galbraith (via enquotations)
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Tumblrette
Testing Tumblrette to help speed up posting on the road. Native iPhone clients with good support can have $2 from me any day.
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It's The Simple Things
I get way too excited about simple things. For example, I don’t understand programing languages. I can’t code. I can’t tell you what a piece of code does. About all I know is what the bold and italic HTML code looks like. I can find, copy, and paste.
This does not stop me from constantly checking out sites like Rails Rumble, a Ruby on Rails competition. There is...
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“When you don’t know where else to invest, you invest in yourself.”
– -Chris Alden Via Wired In response to why blogging has seen business increase during rough economic times.
More like “people like to bitch.”
…Myself included.
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“At one point, after a voter told him he wanted to see a “real fight” at the...”
– McCain Draws Line on Attacks as Crowds Cry ‘Fight Back’ -NYTimes
Reading some of the comments from people in McCain’s audience I start having LSD like visions of daily life for some of our more mobile red state relatives. You know, the kind we don’t talk about when we are out to dinner...
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How Very HHGttG →
Don’t Look. Don’t Panic.
This is the advice being given by many people concerning the current economic crisis. It’s not that I disagree. I just enjoy the opportunity to use traditionally bad advice for the forces of good.
Let’s look back on some of the good times, when “don’t look” was bad advice:
When that rash started to develop about 2 weeks after...
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A Better Title →
If there is something I’d want my region to be known for it would be producing green energy. Clearly better than something like growing oranges…
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Can You Read?
One aspect of working for a technology driven company that I enjoy immensely is the ever changing atmosphere inherent in technological advancement. It’s a not an uncommon thing to here people at work laugh about some application or device we had to use only 3-4 years ago as being obscenely primitive.
This blessing, however, is not without its second edge. Any time a new method of task...
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Mail Goggles →
This could have saved me a few long conversations while I was in college.
The idea of an internet related sobriety check is encouraging and a sign of evolution in internet related maturity. Well, at least a greater understanding of internet related immaturity.