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I played with this for all of one day, I would say I'm a pretty heavy user on this blog ish so that was a lot of usage. The gist: I stuck with Bloglines
I'm a bit late to the party, Google Reader ...
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Thu,
Aug 23,
2007
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11:41:12 AM in web
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From the (Firefox) address bar, here are the websites that come up when I hit..
a- ameritrade
b- bloglines
c- caltrain
d- delicious
e- en.wikipedia
f- flickr
g- graflove
h- hypem
i- imdb
j- j7own
k- ...
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Tue,
Jun 12,
2007
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10:54:49 AM in web
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Weeks ago (could be months), Bloglines updated the format on their OPML output making this post obsolete. Here's the updated version
set xmlObj = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")
' my opml fi...
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Tue,
Jul 11,
2006
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3:05:49 PM in web / web
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Bored much? Anyway, if you ever browse the blog by tag or click on a tag from an entry you will now be able to subscribe to a feed for that particular tag/category
I should make it so it takes multi...
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Wed,
Jun 14,
2006
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10:25:12 AM in web / site
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I've split some feeds apart (just for John, you lil hoe), now available in the about page
old feed
- consolidated content, you don't have to do anything
new
- blog only
- blog comments
- links (del...
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Wed,
May 10,
2006
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2:32:55 PM in web / site
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Yahoo!'s competing translation tool was just released but it's basically just as crappy as Google's. Compare the Y! and G translation for the last post
I'd go blow by blow and point out all the mist...
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Fri,
Apr 28,
2006
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11:22:33 AM in web
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I was checking out this Pogue article on Google Video (it kinda sucks) and marvelled a bit the page layout and navigation. It's friendly for folks running 1024 x 768 resolution (by a large, still a ma...
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Thu,
Jan 19,
2006
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11:31:55 AM in web
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Pretty easy really, I just looked up the source from homey here. I am posting the slideshow from My Favorites sets, http://flickr.com/photos/kewlio/sets/1423041/. You essentially need two things
set ...
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Fri,
Jan 13,
2006
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2:47:52 PM in web
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You can use paper scraps, post-its, write on your palm, leave yourself a voicemail or send yourself an email, the secret to to-do lists is really "stickiness": whatever you are doing must be good that...
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Sat,
Oct 15,
2005
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10:46:40 PM in web
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The awesome xml scraper feed from taint.org let me stay up to date on Threadless submissions, good ones like grr only come in once a while, vote for it
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Sat,
Oct 15,
2005
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1:20:18 AM in web
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Bloglines has a riposte of sort to Google Reader with its own version of keyboard shortcuts, "hotkeys". It's a bit buggy with Firefox' "find as you type" feature
Also the web rss reader now shows the...
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Wed,
Oct 12,
2005
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6:55:18 PM in web
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Waxy Links alerts to Google's latest, Google Reader (Google account required), of course in beta.. strictly for geeks
Ultra cool
- Keyboard navigation shortcuts a first, lightning fast
- Some kind of...
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Fri,
Oct 7,
2005
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11:08:48 AM in google / web / web
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paunch
the belly, especially a protuding one; a potbelly
"Remember the ones you didn't marry? The ones you just couldn't imagine spending the rest of your life with? Well, they're back, with less hai...
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Fri,
Oct 7,
2005
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10:33:13 AM in web
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Threadwatch featured the Neat-O-Backlink Tool (yeah whack name) and I've used it on 2kewl4u.com, turns out it's pretty good at uncovering scraping/spam sites. A few of those are blogspot sites so it'l...
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Tue,
Oct 4,
2005
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1:14:02 PM in web
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Discovered a nice little update to Google Maps this morning. First the maps and results were flipped, map is now on the right while hits are on the left. But the nifty trick is that now they have the ...
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Tue,
Oct 4,
2005
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9:53:13 AM in google / web
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Mostly from reading Gladwell
actuarial
relating to statistical calculation esp. of life expectancy
cadge
to beg or get by begging
cronyism
favoritism shown to old friends without regard for their ...
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Mon,
Sep 26,
2005
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1:16:18 PM in web
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Writely is an online Word app, pretty tizzaight, the collaborative aspects makes it a bit of a Wiki, the editor is really where it's at, very snazzy. I discovered the service through Bloglines for she...
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Sun,
Sep 11,
2005
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9:54:27 PM in web
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Sorta.. a fun article by Lance Arthur that read like Bol's album deathmatches where he puts forth all these ridiculous arguments but the winner is pretty much decided in advance
Excerpt on cultureCon...
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Wed,
Aug 31,
2005
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11:51:43 PM in sanfrancisco / web
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Coulda used some notice there, a few days ago my Audioscrobbler feed wasn't working anymore, checked out my profile today to find that the page redirects to this new site called last.fm (powered by Au...
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Wed,
Aug 10,
2005
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10:32:47 AM in music / web
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Pretty simple really, cuz I'm real lazy. I love them magnet links, they are a new kind link format that contain location information for files, especially useful for peer to peer applications where fi...
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Mon,
Aug 8,
2005
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1:20:26 PM in software / web
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There has been a lot of coverage on BlogHer which took place in Santa Clara this week-end but to describe it as a "Lilith Fair style love-fest dedicated to female bloggers" is just too much (funny). C...
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Tue,
Aug 2,
2005
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1:56:53 PM in blog / web
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I had a rant about Jason and Meg's secret romance or what not, I dunno. I just found some new evidence but it was on his photostream so it's no big secret or anything. I do think he wants to keep us g...
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Sat,
Jul 30,
2005
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7:44:47 PM in art / flickr / friend / web
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For my last birthday, Cary gave me a cool photo album of digital prints from our trip to Hawaii last year. It was probably the best gift the kid ever gave me, I'm pretty picky.
A recent USA Today ar...
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Sun,
Jul 24,
2005
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2:35:58 AM in shopping / web
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Jul 11 2006
code is updated on this post
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I looked all night for something to parse the Bloglines OPML and to my surprise Google was no help. I hastily hacked up something that helps me display th...
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Sat,
Jul 23,
2005
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12:34:15 AM in web / web
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Ask anyone, tagging is all the rage. Alright maybe. It's out there for sure, see del.icio.us, Flickr and Technorati (Gmail was also an early adopter).
Tags enable a new organization of data into mult...
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Fri,
Jul 22,
2005
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4:02:11 PM in web
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Sad to be geekin out while travelin' but I noticed during my stay at the Marriott in Niagara Falls that del.icio.us has added a fancy delete JavaScript to its main bookmark listing...
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Fri,
Jul 1,
2005
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9:25:26 PM in web
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I'm always down for a good burrito (I'm all over the carne asada), but I never know where to go, especially if I venture out to SF. You gotta give it up to this kid at BurritoEater.com, he samp...
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Tue,
Jun 28,
2005
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11:30:17 AM in food / sanfrancisco / web
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Ability to limit number of posts loaded when I click on a feed (it defaults to load all posts since I last checked it (also configurable to Display items within the last Hour, Week, Month, etc)This...
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Sat,
Jun 25,
2005
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12:18:20 AM in blog / web / web
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mrjoro put me onto geotagging which in a nutshell amounts to adding geographic coordinates (usually latitude and longitude) to media associated with a location (website, picture, etc...). An obviou...
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Thu,
Jun 9,
2005
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11:11:13 AM in flickr / google / web
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I'm ditching Furl in favor of del.icio.us. I had switched furiously to Furl a while back but I'm rethinking social bookmarking now that my tagging has become more advanced. I find that creating more ...
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Tue,
Jun 7,
2005
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12:13:04 AM in web
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Who's copying who? Everyone I guess. Google was a bit weak with that My Google (not an official name) portal page but the big Y! just added news to its main Yahoo! Mail (after you ...
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Wed,
Jun 1,
2005
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9:36:40 AM in web
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Why is this interesting? I have no idea, it's kind of stupid but this is all in the spirit of gossip or what notStewart Butterfield (is that name for real?...
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Tue,
May 31,
2005
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4:43:38 PM in blog / flickr / web
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In a sad and very real attempt to find more things to check out online, I've had a couple of new tabs that are becoming permanent fixtures on Firefox, much like the Chowhound Bay Area was f...
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Sun,
May 29,
2005
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12:56:07 PM in web
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Bloglines added weather as part of its wide range of rss add options (it includes any rss feed address but also custom/easy adds for Blogger, Xanga, Live Journal.. recently Package Tracking) The we...
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Wed,
May 18,
2005
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2:45:03 PM in web / web
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Noticed HaloScan getting traction with a lot of blogs, outsourced commenting system with lots of management features (lookin good for spam I'd say), pretty easy to install, couple of snippets of code ...
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Sun,
Mar 6,
2005
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2:00:16 AM in site / web
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I was talkin to big B and one (geek) thing led to another and he asked me if he could sub to my site via NewsGator, the answer being no cuz my rss feed is all jacked up I had read how FeedBurner w...
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Sun,
Mar 6,
2005
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1:18:16 AM in web / site / web
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Obnoxious Legal Aide: I've worked at their IT department and one thing I've learned is that Cisco employees cannot follow instructions
2804 Mission College Blvd
Santa Clara, CA uhmm nice.. you lil f...
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Fri,
Mar 4,
2005
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2:35:28 PM in web
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Even hotter than the Firefox search plugin, start using Firefox Smart Keywords (or Keyword Search) by typing a keyword (imdb, amazon, google) in the location bar (shortcut F6) then your search term...
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Fri,
Jan 28,
2005
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9:13:38 AM in software / web
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For the longest time, the definition section of Google for a given query as the one below I did for elated Results 1 - 10 of about 779,000 for elated [definition]. (0.23 seconds) used Dictionary.com...
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Thu,
Jan 27,
2005
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10:54:30 AM in web
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About that time of the year. I got some other categories in their own posts
Purchases
Best thing I bought all year was my Canon SD10 digital camera, it's a shame I lost it. Next is probably my Tivo ...
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Sun,
Jan 2,
2005
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2:48:37 PM in 2004 / personal / shopping / sports / travel / web
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Some 3100 were killed on 9/11, it was pretty bad.. however, an astounding bodycount of 80,000 is piling up since Dec. 26 in the aftermath of a huge earthquake and its subsequent tsunami in South East ...
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Wed,
Dec 29,
2004
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6:01:31 PM in news / web
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I've used Bloglines as my rss feed aggregator for a while now and I'm mostly happy with it, the ability to keep up with feeds on different machines and mark posts as read is huge with me. I tried Feed...
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Thu,
Dec 16,
2004
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11:30:16 AM in web
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Real cool stuff over there at Yahoo! Maps, you can now get live traffic updates lookin at maps or directions (for over 20 cities so far)
Pretty amazing really
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Wed,
Dec 15,
2004
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10:28:29 PM in web
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hard to believe this is a picture, it looks amazing the author updated his site with wallpapers made from the pic, my current desktop
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Thu,
Dec 2,
2004
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11:06:40 PM in web
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Friend sent me this quiz, kinda long but some interesting results for me.. here are some highlights, not sure if the results are actually ranked- Manhattan, NY - nice though I'm sure I said I didn't w...
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Sun,
Nov 14,
2004
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6:23:54 PM in web
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got this from mum-mum, one of those generator things
山田 Yamada (mountain field) 亜門 Amon (asian gates) the English translation is also right for chinese, but it would ...
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Fri,
Oct 1,
2004
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2:49:41 PM in web
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Played around with Furl which is making the rounds in the news circles for being acquired by LookSmart. John Battelle has been clamoring about the service for a while but I'm a slow poke, sue me...
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Thu,
Sep 23,
2004
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12:02:42 PM in web / web
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Power surfers (or online junkies) have always had to deal with bookmarks. How I've come to keep up with them has changed over time. From personal bookmarks on a single machine, I migrated to Yahoo! Bo...
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Wed,
Sep 15,
2004
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10:35:27 AM in blog / web / software / web
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Cool optical illusions via boingboing (click pic for full size, more on link)
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Mon,
Jul 12,
2004
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8:31:05 PM in web
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this kid (a comic book writer actually) answers my email in his column, haha kinda fun but you probably wouldn't know where i am in there
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Wed,
Jul 7,
2004
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10:34:04 AM in web
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A group of talented artists put together some fake though official lookin road signs in Lyon (eastern central France, 2nd largest city after Paris). I'm not sure if they get in trouble for this or if ...
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Tue,
Jun 29,
2004
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2:08:51 PM in web
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Took long enough, we're talking 2 months and change (gmail has been introduced by way of invitations, first to employees and their friends/family, some by blogger and more for gmail members). Of cours...
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Thu,
Jun 17,
2004
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3:11:58 PM in web
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A story Friday on online grocery shopping via Slashdot got me real interested. I had checked out the service to see if it was available and safeway.com actually service the bay area, along with a h...
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Sun,
May 23,
2004
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10:12:01 AM in food / shopping / web
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Read an excellent article at Aeiou (funky name? actually corresponds to the vowels of the alphabet.. what that means, I do not know) on the quality of a good blog. It's in French, read up haha.
I us...
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Mon,
Apr 12,
2004
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4:25:43 PM in web
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It's a little known fact that Jerry Seinfeld is a huge fan of Superman. I personally cannot praise Jerry enough for his comedy. I was lucky to catch him live once and I'd love to see another show. Wha...
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Fri,
Apr 9,
2004
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11:11:30 AM in web
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if you can't get enough blog-ness (i sure can't), check out kinja (how one comes up with a name like that is anyone's guess), a newly unveiled (circa 4/1/04) blog aggregator that has a convenient dige...
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Mon,
Apr 5,
2004
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4:05:22 PM in web
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Welp, Gmail was not an April Fool's stunt after all, matter of fact not many cool hoaxes came out. I stand corrected :-)
Now give me daniel@gmail.com, fosheezle!
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Fri,
Apr 2,
2004
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6:51:28 PM in web
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First of many I am sure, this one not bad: Google to offer Gmail, free 1GB email... 1GB baby! Hahha that'd be hot. And if Google did email, it would be hot for sure. My co-worker claims the 1GB might ...
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Wed,
Mar 31,
2004
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8:48:04 PM in web / news
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well, while lookin up some blog/rss stuff, google came up with this neat kuro5hin scathing article on the utter useless blogs out there or rather how much movable type sux, read up
i agree mostly, es...
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Mon,
Mar 29,
2004
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9:25:35 PM in web
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hacked up some xml (to put it mildly) for the ever growing popularity with rss (really simple syndication) feed phenom (got blog?). i think the format for that file ain't really correct, oh well a...
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Mon,
Mar 29,
2004
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9:00:36 PM in blog / web / web
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Friday.. feelin lazy, silly links ensue
The Bush card deck is pretty fun but borderline stupid, that Nokia new phone looks ghey (2nd link), Johnny sent me that forbes one.. I dunno, is this usable at...
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Fri,
Sep 26,
2003
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10:23:31 AM in movie / web
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Logged into my Verizon account today and they changed the whole thing (frankly the old VZServe interface was ghetto).. it's pretty nice, color wise and on usability. Also there a slew of new reports t...
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Fri,
Sep 12,
2003
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9:58:53 AM in web
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Amazing the growing number of features built in the simple search text field on Google.. enter a simple math expression and it spits out results, address will map it; name, city, state will attempt to...
Posted
Mon,
Sep 1,
2003
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10:56:28 PM in web
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