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2008

My extra second in 2008

December 31, 2008

I heard on NPR today that 2009 will have to wait an extra second to coordinate clocks with the Earth’s rotation.
Rarely do we get handed the gift of time, so I got to thinking about what I would do with an extra second of time. A second isn’t really enough time to do anything significant, [...]

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Not entirely an accurate analogy on Net neutrality

December 18, 2008

Found this analogy about Net neutrality and depite its convincing face, it is not entirely accurate.
Say there was no deal cooked up between Telus and the big pizza chain and everyone was competing equally. But, the local pizza place decided it would make a really delicious, super-duper pizza that everyone wanted, but was not going [...]

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Joe Biden get a German Shepherd

December 14, 2008

Vice President-elect Joe Biden has picked out a 3-month-old male German shepherd from a suburban Philadelphia kennel to bring with him to Washington.
Biden, riding deep with seven black Secret Service vehicles, rolled up to German Shepherd breeder Linda Brown’s home in Chester County, Penn. on Saturday and rolled out having chosen the nation’s Second Dog. [...]

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How to look clueless on Twitter in three easy steps

December 3, 2008

Recently, one of the folks I follow sent out a tweet about a teacher who is selling sponsorship on the bottom of his test. The tweet went like:
I am in advertising, but even I think this is a bad idea.
So, being a good follower, I click on the link to the story, read it [...]

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How to dumb down more stuff

November 29, 2008

Here’s what you do when you’ve written a Dummies book about everything.

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Selling diamonds in a down economy

November 28, 2008

You might think that selling diamonds in a down economy would be a tough game, but you would be wrong!
Here is how DeBeers is doing it, full page ad in the WSJ.
 

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Disappearing males?

November 25, 2008

This is an interesting video and it appears as if males are disappearing. The video concludes that that is is becasue of the chemicals we’re producing, but as a male of the canine species, I’d like to posit another theory:
Mommybloggers
Ok, not specifically mommybloggers, but everything they represent. The mommies have all bonded into this huge [...]

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Irony, pay back, Karma.. you decide

November 24, 2008

Whether this is irony, Karma, payback or just another funny story, you decide.
DaytonDailyNews.com
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Merry season!

November 23, 2008

Joe does not really care what you call the upcoming season of giving stuff to other people, but he wants you to know that you will NOT be getting a catalog in the mail. This is your only source for Plain Joe Stuff. (Be sure to catch the out takes at the end.) [...]

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Truemors was being goofy.

November 17, 2008

So here are my comments to 
Palin Calls Bloggers “Kids in Pajamas…in Their Parents’ Home”
Here is the quote from the Fox News site:
–QUOTE–
VAN SUSTEREN: Is there anything else that has been raised or said about you in the media, either during the convention — I mean, during the campaign or since the campaign ended, that you [...]

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Never confuse ‘clear thought’ with crap

November 16, 2008

Last Saturday, Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, wrote an article in the WSJ titled The Perils of ‘Populist Chic’, What the rise of Sarah Palin and populism means for the conservative intellectual tradition. It was well-thought out and objectively argued. In short, it explains why presidential candidates need to go bowling and drinking [...]

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Microsoft Office is not Web 2.0

November 11, 2008

I upgraded my Office OS X version to 2008 and the following terms are not in the default dictionary.
Blogging, Digg, Facebook, Technorati. I’m sure the list is much more extensive, but why would Microsoft deliberately make themselves look like old foggies?
Weird.
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This takes guts

November 10, 2008

I was driving along Hwy 68 just south of Xenia, Ohio. This is a pro-America part of the country where there is so much nothing that nobody can hear you scream. And this is a very, very big sign.

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Representing

November 7, 2008

Oh, brother… one cute dog story and the rest of us mutts gotta make it viral.
Fine here you go.

Rule #1: Don’t stick your hand in our faces. Give a brother a break! BTW, Barney was not aiming for the finger, Jonathan Decker.
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Brought to you by some upstanding, God-fearing Christians

November 4, 2008

The family down the street flies the flag every day, even puts a light on it at night and takes it in during the rain. At Christmas time, they decorate their house with a large Nativity star, a manger set and a large sign that reads “Jesus is the Reason for the Season.”
It makes [...]

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105 feet… so close, yet…

November 4, 2008

This was outside my polling place in Ohio. Notice that the McCain/Palin sign is as close as the law allows. Clearly, the letter of the law is being invoked, but not the spirit. I’m pretty certain that an over-eager supporter put this there, but this really is not helping put your candidate in the best [...]

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FedEx curls make me happy

October 13, 2008

I love getting FedEx envelopes because that rip tab to open them makes a curly thing that makes me happy.

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We didn’t start the fire either

October 13, 2008

A couple weeks ago, Ryan Healy wrote a blog post about how Baby Boomers screwed up the world and how GenY is going to “fix” it. After turning it over in my 40+ brain a bit (Boomers like to think things through before yapping off; part of our charm) here are some observations about the [...]

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Pay attention to the news cycle and do something with it

September 13, 2008

Yesterday, I received the monthly issue of Association News, read the front cover and was immediately in awe of the level to which this organization is paying attention to the world around them.
One could say that the choice of featuring Arizona was merely coincidental or that the state was next on the calendar [...]

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We got bears!

September 12, 2008

I was poking around the Anchorage Daily News this evening, reading up on Palin and TrooperGate. I noticed that the newspaper had a bear sightings gallery.
Well, that certainly beats the 937pets.com that we have here at the Dayton Daily News.
Go Alaska. Go bears
Thanks AKMuckraker at MudFlats for the trip north to [...]

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