“Natalie can still get under my skin. Ever since the accident, she’s been employing her most potent seductive powers. I’ve managed to avoid her advances. Mostly. Today she pushed me too far. I kicked her out“ (gag.) I was watching a friend surf. She doesn’t have my zealous, guerilla attitude towards blocking advertisements, so this […]
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The NaNoWriMo participant profile has a slot where one can add the working title of his tome. I originally had Captain Sarcastic Explains the Universe, but am now leaning towards the Dude, We’re Going to Spatula City! byline above because it suggests subduction of the “rabid weasels” (to use Woodstock’s excellent analogy) and eventual, if
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I hope that, by 2006, I’ll have secured my place in innovation history, along side the Method of concealing partial baldness. Peabody, set the Way-back machine for December, 2002. The first round of my product was scheduled for launch in March. It was neat, but what I was really excited about was the vision, the
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Referer link spamming is when someone from Site A fakes out web servers on Site B into thinking someone was referred from Site A. The hope is that Site B is running one of those dynamic visitors lists and, by doing so, Site A appears on Site B’s list when Google’s indexing spider visits. Google
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I’m nearing the one year anniversary of DVR ownership. If you don’t have a ReplayTV or TiVo, and you watch TV, you’re missing out on a very cool device. Think of it as a VCR with a 40+ hour capacity, but with no tapes to rewind and it’s programmed by selecting the show you want
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I first heard about NaNoWriMo from Kristin in July. After looking into it, reading some of the experiences (themselves novel-worthy) by previous participants, and floating the idea by my spouse without incurring a veto, I’ve signed up. The challenge is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel from scratch between November 1 – November 30, 2004.
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Sunday morning, I was looking up the football game score for my alma mata on Yahoo. Go ahead, take a look. That’s not a basketball score, nor was it against football powerhouse Texas. (In that game, the week before, Rice gave up only half as many points.) It was San Jose State Spartans. Still, you
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The Wall Street Journal had another writeup about A9.com, Amazon’s search subsidiary, so I checked it out again yesterday. Today, when I popped over to Amazon.com to look for some books. I’ve long since tuned out any iconery on the top right and left corners, but the change in logo caught my eye after a
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