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Barack Obama AIM Buddy Icon

February 10, 2007

I chopped up the Obama’08 graphic into a new buddy icon for my meebo. A couple of people said they wanted it, so here you go… btw, if you don’t use meebo yet, you should check it out. It lets you use all of your AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, [...]

Becoming a Non-Toxic Person

February 1, 2007

As someone who wants to continue to progress in self-actualization and the potential of who (and what) I was created to be, I found the following article to be very insightful, especially as I have found myself surrounded by some incredibly noxious individuals over the past several years. While I continue to recover and escape [...]

NCO Financial Systems

July 3, 2006

Be sure to go and leave a comment at NCO Financial Systems at CallFerret Phone Number Lookup so that all of the new NCO phone numbers are available to people as soon as possible. In case you are getting calls from the wonderful people at NCO Financial Systems. You should read some messages people have [...]

Do you own songs bought online? Well, sort of

May 15, 2006

In a recent article on Reuters, the author points out the limitations companies like Apple place on your online music downloads. Issues like limitation to Apple iPods, multiple computer use rights and CD burning. Before people erroneously get the impression this issue is limited to Apple, there are a few points to consider: You don’t [...]

Did You Pay Your Internet Protection Payola?

April 21, 2006

Do you buy books online, use Google, or download to an Ipod? These activities will be hurt if Congress passes a radical law that gives giant corporations more control over the Internet. Internet providers like AT&T and Verizon are lobbying Congress hard to gut Network Neutrality, the Internet’s First Amendment. Net Neutrality prevents AT&T from [...]

Christians Sue over Tolerance

April 10, 2006

A senior at [tag]Georgia Tech[/tag] is suing the University for the right to be intolerant. I’m always amazed at how much effort certain [tag]Christians[/tag] can expend condemning others and defining new ways to form divisions between people. The excuse most often cited is ‘Holiness’ and the Greater Morality™. My concern is that I rarely meet [...]

Gratitude In My Pocket

March 14, 2006

In my pants, my wallet, my bookbag, even my Moleskine, there are little pieces of paper. Written on them is one word, gratitude. To some it may seem simplistic, but I have never been as happy as since I started reminding myself how much that I can be thankful for. Sure, I could complain about [...]

One Campaign Email: Santorum-Durbin Amendment

March 13, 2006

Last Thursday, the Senate Budget Committee cut back funds to the President’s plan to fight global AIDS and extreme poverty-but we still have a chance to make a difference! Right now, two U.S. Senators are reaching across political divides and asking the Senate to add $566 million to fund critical AIDS, TB and malaria programs [...]

First Google China, now Google Mars

March 13, 2006

Google Mars is up with some amazing pictures of the Martian landscape from NASA. The pictures are available in three ways: an ‘elevation’ topographic model, a visual satellite image, or an infrared satellite image. It is the same interface as Google Maps and includes indexed maps of the highlights, like mountains, canyons, and craters. If [...]

Basecamp saved my life. really.

March 11, 2006

In case you haven’t seen it, Basecamp is a website for project management, but more to the point, it is quite possibly the best collaborative organizational tool ever. Create a project, add the people involved and then share to-do lists, milestones/goals, post messages with files and write on virtual whiteboards, all while assigning everything to [...]

WordPress 2.0.2 Security Release

March 10, 2006

Of course, now that I finally have Internet again (after 2 1/2 months), I decide to upgrade my WordPress 1.5 blogs to WordPress 2.0.1. 6 hours later, Matt gives birth to: WordPress 2.0.2 Security Release. *sigh*…. but did I mention I have a 20Mbps DSL line? I love France.

“Embarassed by Evangelicals?” =)

March 10, 2006

Hehe… You know, it is not terribly hard to amuse me and make me happy. I do it quite a bit all by my lonesome. However, the kind of smiles that warm you up and remind you that while all may not be right in the world, there are great people standing in the gap… [...]

Boyles and Hendricks Furniture Newsletter Spam

March 6, 2006

Ahh, newsletter spam. Boyles Furniture, of the Hendricks Furniture Group, doesn’t seem to care that I have unsubscribed to their newsletter 14 times in the past six months. It’s kind of a game now. They send me a newsletter in violation of the Federal CAN-SPAM Act and I forward that newsletter to the Federal Trade [...]

The Real Simpsons

March 4, 2006

After, what, 16 seasons or something of unique intro credits for The Simpsons, they’ve finally made a live-action version. Marge needs bigger hair. Why is Lisa twice as big as Bart? Why is Maggie on the wrong side of the car? (it’s british). Not all I’d have hoped for, but still fun. Here’s the Simpsons [...]

Tagworld : a Rupert Murdoch-free MySpace

March 2, 2006

If you haven’t checked it out yet, you need to play with this new social networking site. It has some cool Web 2.0 stuff (meaning AJAX) and is a lot more customizable than MySpace. It’s in beta so there smoothing out the kinks.. Seems to have some mac issues with the AJAX, but very promising. [...]

Currently Reading: The End of Poverty

March 2, 2006

The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time – Jeffrey Sachs

Forget Regret Or Life Is Yours To Miss

November 26, 2005

RENT has finally arrived and I loved it. I’ve seen RENT on stage several dozen times and I was apprehensive but hopeful for the film treatment of my favourite musical. As I expected, the film critics are split on the movie, but the fan base is loving it and the cast are enthusiastic as well. [...]

Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire Rocks

November 18, 2005

Just back from the midnight premiere and a bit jacked on too much Coke past my bedtime. Quite a bit darker than the previous movies and much more encouraging of a book adaptation, the fourth Harry Potter movie plain rocked. While some of the teenage acting continues to limp along and the Yule Ball scenes [...]

Discover New Music – Pandora

November 6, 2005

Need help discovering new music? The creators of the Music Genome Project have the answer in Pandora. By analyzing the elements of your favourite artists’ songs, like instrumentation, tonality, phrasing and the general aesthetic, it can suggest similar songs and artists. It will read your mind. I think the $36 is pretty fair, but if [...]

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