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Miss Universe National Costumes

August 28, 2010 Humor

I had no idea that there was a National Costume portion of the Miss Universe pageant. I need to tune in next time. Excellent collection of snarky one-liners over at Tom & Lorenzo’s blog. Part One & Part Two.

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Obvious in Hindsight

July 7, 2010 History

Today’s history lesson. Cracked.com helpfully points out that depictions of Vikings with huge horns on their helmets was entirely impractical, if not suicidal.
As for the Vikings, the one single thing we know them for–wearing huge horns on their helmets–isn’t true. They just wore regular helmets, not anything fancy. Here’s some advice: If you want a career in [...]

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Housekeeping

January 24, 2010 Off Topic

For those of you who read this blog through a reader, I took care of few things on the blog this weekend to clean things up a bit.

My recommended software for the E71 has proven very popular but that is only one of the three phones that I use on a regular basis and there’s [...]

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Navel Gazing, 2009

January 13, 2010 Off Topic

For giggles, let’s repeat what I did almost exactly a year ago and take a look back at my online activity from a year ago and make a snapshot for future reference.
top post of the year – Is this the new Obama phone? was the top post of the year, mostly because of traffic early [...]

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Self-Referential Navel Gazing, 2008 edition

January 6, 2009 Current Events

This post is for my own notes – a bunch of stats about traffic on the blog and the social networks to serve as a reference point for next year.
top post of the year – Barack Obama’s Speechwriter is 26 consistently did well because of it’s high search results ranking. Coming up second was a [...]

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Performing File System Surgery

October 25, 2008 Off Topic

Ugh. In the middle of moving files around on my home Windows PC the filesystem was corrupted and I lost access to my files. I knew the files were there but the the few configuration files that Windows XP needed to give me rights to my folder were kaput and because I was the administrator [...]

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Multi-tasking, today is busy

January 17, 2008 Off Topic

What happens when you get more screen real estate by adding a 24″ second monitor? You fill it up.  This has got to be a record.

9 IM windows active (5 people from Yahoo, 4 from outside)
9 Firefox tabs (one playing sound off of a video)
6 Outlook windows (1 calendar appointment, 4 half-written emails, 1 reminder)
1 [...]

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Getting back to what’s real

November 3, 2007 Off Topic

After a breathless day at the office with multiple IM windows open, twitter updates pinging away in my snitter window and heavy discussions on internal email lists, I retreated to a dinner party with my suburban neighbors to unwind from the week’s events. My mind was bubbling over with thoughts from the day’s news and [...]

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Ballpark promotions gone horribly wrong

October 24, 2007 Advertising

As we slide into the World Series we remember Five Ballpark Promotion schemes that went wrong. Includes gems such as the Cleveland Indians 10-cent beer night
Management forgot one small detail: drunk people get restless. More than 25,000 fans showed up for the event, most of them already tipsy at the gate. Among the more tame [...]

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Long Journey West to the Farallons

September 18, 2007 Off Topic

Photo by Todd Sampson
Our first trip on Todd’s sailboat out beyond the Golden Gate was very relaxing. There was pretty much no wind so we ended up motoring almost the entire 90 miles out and back to the Farallon Islands. Not that I mind – I was a bit nervous having never ventured out in [...]

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