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Annoying Twitter Spam

August 20th, 2008 ·

It seems like half of the spam I’m getting on Twitter is from a certain six figure income dot com domain (I won’t dignify their site with a link). My complaint about it in a tweet yesterday hit a nerve in quite a few people.
I’m pretty sure it’s one person, sitting in a basement somewhere, [...]

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Sharing the First Anniversary Frozen Cake

August 20th, 2008 ·

Gala and I did the traditional eating of the 1-year-old-frozen-top-tier-of-the-wedding-cake. It wasn’t bad at all.
This tradition is a bit crazy. We wonder how, as my brother-in-law pointed out, this is a tradition at all… It’s not like refridgeration and freezers have been around that long. Found this.

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Direct links to MP3s for the Democratic candidate’s WMMR call-ins

April 22nd, 2008 ·

Here are direct links to the Clinton and Obama call-ins on WMMR’s Preston and Steve program (reverse chronological order)… I’m looking forward to McCain calling in during the general election so I can post all three.
Obama - 4/21/2008
Clinton -4/11/2008

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Scoble’s Secret to Twitter - I call it ‘flow’

March 24th, 2008 ·

I completely dig Scoble’s method of using Twitter. I’ve been wanting to consume mass tweets and watch information pass…  It’s simply not possible to ‘flow’ when you’re using apps like Twitterific and only follow a hundred people (this setup is great for smaller numbers).
I’d been using Twitterific for a while, but it was clunky and [...]

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Consumerist post re: TSA

February 7th, 2008 ·

Thought I’d share this…http://consumerist.com/353764/the-tsa-helps-itself-to-your-electronics-and-private-data 

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Fast and Furious Windows Error: Please Wait for The Simpsons

July 29th, 2007 ·

I was always under the impression a game like Fast and Furious would be on something more reliable. Most likely something proprietary or dedicated. But here, while waiting in the lobby before The Simpsons Movie we see a dirty little secret…

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Sol’s eCommerce Home Page

July 23rd, 2007 ·

A home page for buying great titles, and I get 20%…
Using purely RSS, not a custom commerce site, you can buy great audiobooks from me (powered by iofy):
Some business books (a real-time search feed for business titles):
Business Search
Or something from Shakespeare (another real-time search feed for titles authored by Shakespeare):Shakespeare
Also supported through iofy’s API is [...]

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