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Entries from January 2007

Dave Still Doesn't Get It

January 24th, 2007 · No Comments

Dave says that most RSS readers are wrong. Well, I hate to tell him that he is wrong. He'd never understand that but it is just plain true. Dave still doesn't understand that people have different ways of working and different views. I used a river of news view with his Radio Userland product many […]

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SimpleFilter And Google Apps For Your Domain / GMail

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments

I've been slowly moving my various domain's email management to Google Apps For Your Domain. After a bit of success I let Brent know and he is happily also using Google Apps Gmail thingy. One thing I noticed right away since I let things run outside of our SimpleFilter corporate service is that a ton […]

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del.icio.us Bookmarks Extension For Firefox

January 19th, 2007 · No Comments

Looks like Yahoo released a new firefox extension for del.icio.us. It really integrates with the browser now with tons of very nice features. For some reason the actual del.icio.us website does not reference this version but you can get it from here – https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/

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Heads Or Tails?

January 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

What is it with the fascination of that TV game show “Deal or No Deal”? Is North America really reduced to this level of mindless television? Is there anything remotely interesting about this show? I was able to stomach approximately 5 minutes of this show before vowing never to watch it again. How is it […]

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Mailinator Architecture

January 7th, 2007 · No Comments

Paul Tyma, creator of the great service Mailinator wrote a post about the architecture of the system. The reason I point to it is because of the simplicity/beauty of the system. Here is a short couple quotes: At this point, Mailinator averages approximately 2.5million emails per day. I have seen hourly spikes that would result […]

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My Vote For Quote Of The Year

January 1st, 2007 · No Comments

As with Ross, I rarely blog about politics and crapola like this but I found his quote to potentially be the quote of the year for 2006 when describing Sadam Hussein: “He was,” I finished. “As ruthless and terrible as Hitler, but far less successful.” And then Ross went on to say: I'm blogging this […]

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