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I'd say this announcement is at least 5 years late!!!

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Google released a chat translation thing today. However in my opinion the implementation is really sloppy with the use of a bot. I suppose a possible reason they are doing this is just to show that one can hook bots into GTalk etc so perhaps it isn't really the fact that they wanted to add […]

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Yahoo released a new version of YUI yesterday. I've been using YUI lately on a few projects and it is proving very useful. See their blog entry on the list of new features.

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I'm really tired about hearing about all this steroid use with athletes. Another athlete (not even sure I should call them athletes) admits using steroids but again like a ton of others is going to come out saying “I didn't know it was steroids”. Apparently the pill they are given is called “the clear” and […]

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Great article on why software is hard and probably why I'll pickup Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software. Some of my favorite quotes from the article: “Software scheduling is an NP-complete bin packing problem where the sizes of the bins are hidden!” “Software construction is […]

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Amazing hand puppet action here that I just had to post:

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I've always been suspicious of anyone like Al Gore so vocal about Global Warming considering I've followed some of the research and discussion on the other side of the fence. You have to figure anything Gore is doing in the public eye is politically motivated. He is a politician and nothing more. A quote from […]

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sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air – Tom Snyder. One of the greatest interviewers has passed away. There has not been another interviewer with a regular show other than Howard Stern that gets real interviews and guests talking honestly and openly than Snyder. He was absolutely the […]

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I was just online submitting a trouble ticket to a company and while entering the information a bunch of knowledge base articles started popping up underneath the web based input form. One of them had the answer to my question so I didn't even need to submit the ticket. This is the best implementation of […]

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I used to be able to recommend Velocity Server (who was recently bought by DataPoint) as a pretty decent Virtual Private Server (VPS) provider. That is no longer the case. It seems that whenever they were taken over by DataPoint mass incompetence has taken over. We used to deal with a few very competent people […]

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