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Non-tech Gear: Rowing Machine

I have been really wanting to pick up a rowing machine for a few months now. Indoor rowing is one of my preferred forms of exercise so I’d love to have a rowing machine in my home- this would not only be convenient, but the one in my gym is a piece of junk.
From what [...]

Coping with Email Bankruptcy

Like so many other web workers I have had to deal with communications “bankruptcy” (not my term, but one I’ll use for now). I’m not at the point when I am going to delete all my emails and start over- I’m not nearly important enough for that anyway- but I can see my email habits [...]

I have been pretty interested in Mahalo since it was first announced so a few days ago I finally signed up for the Greenhouse. This is their program where they are paying people, supposedly qualified people, to write search engine result pages (SERPs). All the result pages on Mahalo are generated by real people so [...]

Some things I am very interested in right now and proof that other people care about them too…

Amazon EC2 and S3
- related article discussing using EC2/S3 for “real applications”
Hosting 2.0- rethinking web hosting
- related article goes over some of the real problems with Media Temple’s Grid (it’s worth noting that while the Grid did go [...]

I moved two years ago and since then have been using my old cell phone number. This is not a problem for the most part, since it’s with Verizon I am always stuck with a crappy phone, or one that was cool 2 years ago.  I’ve been wanting to go GSM for a long time, [...]

Can’t Believe I Missed Computex

I have been following the Computex coverage as closely as possible, but I now realize that I really should have make the trip. The plane ticket was going to be really expensive, but it would probably have been cheap once I got there and it would have been really productive as far as checking out [...]

Big News Day

Wow, yesterday was a big news day. I was away from my computer for a few hours and I can’t believe all the things I missed. It’s my own fault, not for having something to do, but my missing out on D, which is turning out to best the most exciting conference of the year.
I’m [...]

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