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07 December 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Wanted: An E-reader for Comics

Although the Apple tablet has yet to prove itself as fact or fiction, I hope the new speculation about tablets for periodicala will include the thriving comicbook and manga businesses. Websites like Zuda and Marvel successfully translate the comic reading experience to the web but to be honest, the last thing I want to do [...]

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04 December 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Google Your Google on Your Google With Your Google

If there were ever a company that had a real chance of becoming Skynet, it would be Google. Let’s hope that ‘don’t be evil’ mantra still permeates the company in twenty five years when Google AI robots are cooking your dinner or tending to other things. Today Google announced it’s own alternative DNS resolver. Google’s [...]

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02 December 2009 ~ 4 Comments

Feedburner: A Service Yahoo Should Own

So today, I intended to triumphantly return to the world of personal blogging with this blog but I failed. My first post pushed out today was actually this one below from 2008:

Arg. How did that happen? It turns out it’s a problem with Feedburner. Feedburner was an awesome service for about 5 months (after it [...]

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04 December 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Wordpress 2.7 Arrives

Wordpress continues to evolve with the release of 2.7 to the public on Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 8pm Eastern Time. That’s 5pm Thursday in California, 1am Friday in London (UTC), 8am Friday in Jakarta, noon on Friday in Sydney and so on. For a quick rundown of all the new features and updates visit [...]

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04 April 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Top 5 Resources for Free Background Patterns and Textures

As of late, rather than making my own, I’ve been using an increasing number of web resources for free web resources. The biggest time saver is for backgrounds and textures. Here’s a list of the ones I use most.

1. colourlovers.comBefore I discovered color schemer Colourlovers.com was my favorite color resource. But it’s [...]

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24 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Yahoo’s Mistake?

Last year I had a Yahoo account that was disabled because of a phisher. They wouldn’t restore it. Along with my Yahoo account I lost access to my Flickr page, my Upcoming, etc. Anything that was a Yahoo subsidiary. Yahoo is draconian in this way. If you violate the TOS [...]

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21 March 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Sucide Bombers in World of War Craft

http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2008/03/wow_terror
Hrmmm, interesting article on how counter-terrorist organizations are studying World of Warcraft to enhance their real world strategies.
It shouldn’t be that surprising as analysts have been studying SecondLife for data about housing trends for years now. This article helps illustrate how the real world U.S. financial crisis is affecting that virtual community.

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