Archive for January, 2010

Since replacing Outlook with Google’s services a few weeks back, I’ve had the luxury of synchronizing my contacts, calendar, and email on my PDA while on the go without relying on a two-step approach involving POP or IMAP.  It’s been
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Over eight hundred days have passed since I started this blog, but today a nice round number graced my administration screen: 2500.  This is the number of comments that currently exist on this site … 62% of which were written
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After six incredible years of exploration, it seems that NASA’s Spirit Rover has reached the end of its mobility. That said, just because it can’t move anymore doesn’t mean the robotic explorer is going to be put down forever.

Today was an unscheduled day off for me as the Mrs. and I thought it would be wiser to visit a doctor sooner rather than later for my recurring chest problems.  Monday’s visit to the doctor resulted in a prescription
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HotaruCMS is a new web project that’s being led by Nick Ramsay as an alternative to systems such as Pligg.  He’s put in an incredible number of hours on the project and it’s currently sitting at version 1.0.4.  I see
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Yesterday I wrote Part IV in an ever-going topic about the value of our personal blog, and today I happened to stumble across another absolutely pointless metric: What’s Your Twitter Account Worth? After a quick examination, it seems that my
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The time of the blog may have peaked three years ago, but there’s still money to be made from the platform.  The question, however, is ‘how much can you hope to gain’? Way back in May of 2007, I had
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Spam is the bane of the internet, and probably older than the intangible communications platform it infests.  How spammers actually turn a profit is often a subject of intense debate but, luckily, we have filters available that can weed out
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Over the last decade or so I’ve been battling a bunch of minor problems such as insomnia, headaches, chest pain, and blood pressure.  Insomnia I can usually deal with as the extra waking hours can be used to analyze things
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After coming home a few hours ago I tried to post a few Tweets and see what the world had been up to while I was sequestered in a remote section of 岐阜県 this afternoon.  Unfortunately, Seesmic couldn’t connect to
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Believe it or not, I had a terrible habit back in Canada.  It wasn’t one with drugs, alcohol, women, or even excessive weight gain.  Instead it was something much more insidious. Something that, once you’ve been bitten, it’s very hard
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Now that 2010 is in full swing and things have slowed down a bit at home, it’s time to publish a post that’s better suited for the end of December or start of January: the personal goals. Goals have played
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At the end of November I claimed success when I reached an accumulated score of 10,000円 in the classic game of Solitaire.  However, despite saying that I’d set the game aside and spend more time doing other things, I cannot
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