Archive for the ‘High Tech’ Category
Monday, April 28th, 2008
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Talk about the hidden web! Some of the best writing is buried in comments, replies and user-supplied content.
Just as we have repositories of the best quotes, compilations of commercial jingles and collections of the most memorable movie lines, we should have a searchable database for the best comments ever ...
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
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The Book
I skimmed The Assault on Reason, by former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore.
The introduction was disturbingly profound, given that he pinpointed my reasons for not voting.
He basically states that democracy, as a form of government in the United States, has been derailed by the loss of two-way communication ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
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This post comes with a bonus word game!
Yours to keep, even if you skip the rest of the story!
Fish
I was hunting around for a program that could simplify the management of my growing library of WordPress themes.
Here is what I want this program to do:
Catalog the library
Indicate price ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
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Like the morons in the highly entertaining Southwest Airlines commercials,
I wanna get away.
For the past few days, I've been trying to transfer my blog to a new server.
The error messages finally dwindled down to:
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Into Every Life, A Little Rain Must Fall
In pursuit of my no-strings blogging, I've deactivated the Ultimate Tag Warrior plug-in.
I just read the update on Lorelle's blog:
"NOTE: Since WordPress 2.1, the Ultimate Tag Warrior WordPress Plugin has had some major problems and the author has decided to stop support..."
I ...
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Monday, September 17th, 2007
Well, the intrepid Sharon Hurley Hall has done it again. She discovered BlogRush, yet another community for bloggers. Created by John Reese, BlogRush aims to link your blog to other related blogs. To paraphrase Sharon, it’s like a blogroll on steroids.
As soon as I had installed the widget, I was ...
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Microsoft Surface, a new computing platform, is being touted as the "PC Killer" by Michael Estrin of iMedia Connections, a marketing trade publication. According to Estrin:
"… the touch-screen-operated Surface may soon spark the next wave in the digital revolution, killing the PC and the mouse, and replacing them with a ...
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