All Your Base Are Belong To Us – Take Two

I was feeling inspired by my discovery of a new internet meme site today (There, I Fixed It), which focuses on McGuyver style hacks, or kluges, that are LOL-worthy. Yes I realize the ghost of the English Language just rolled over in its grave. If you’ve been jacked into the net long enough, you may [...]

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Be a Responsible Facebook Gamer: Lists

We’ve all been guilty of it. We use a Facebook application, usually a game we play, and it wants to share news with our friends every time we so much as twitch near the keyboard. This can be useful to the 2% of our friends who actually use the application in question but to the [...]

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Despicable Ballmer?

So I was reading an article over at Wired today about the HVAC going out on Steve Ballmer’s CES 2010 keynote speech. They had this great image of a Steve Ballmer silhouette against the darkened room as Microsoft and the conference center staff struggled to restore power. Suddenly I realized where I knew that figure from. [...]

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Random Thoughts for the Efficiency Minded #1

A couple of things passed by me before 11am today that I thought were worth mentioning. The first is a WordPress plugin which, sadly, I can’t install until I transfer this blog to its own server. The second is a major difference between Bing and Google. Gigya Socialize This fantastic little plugin sounds like it [...]

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As good as confirmation of an Apple/Verizon phone

Not much has been reported on the Apple/Verizon deals since a flurry of rumors hit the net back in April. As reported by Engadget, CDMA is a pretty small percentage of the world market; unless you happen to be named Verizon. So imagine my surprise when I ran into this on Apple’s job board? URL: [...]

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My preview of Jumpgate Evolution at Stratics

Previewing MMO game titles is a surprising amount of work. So is avoiding glitches in Drupal when publishing them. At any rate, most of my recent writing time went into a preview at Stratics, where I worked during the .com explosion at the turn of the millennium. I Played Jumpgate Evolution for 60 minutes at [...]

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iPhone Battery Life Tips – In Detail

I knew what I was getting into when I bought the iPhone and yet I did it anyway. I’ve never known anyone who didn’t a) have to replace the phone at least once a year or b) have an issue with battery life. While I can’t do much about the first category, exhaustive tinkering has allowed me to come up with some pretty useful battery-saving tips for this device.

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Facebook as a Broadcasting Mechanism and the Emergence of Weak Social Ties

With the rise of social networks, people are able to carry far more weak social contacts than ever before. What was not expected, however, was the way Facebook has stabilized the communication with those contacts and thus created a far more dynamic strong social contact group.

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