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When I download stuff I figure it’s no one’s business but mine, so I use a neat program called PeerGuardian — it essentially tracks certain organizations that like to spy on you and blocks them from doing so.
Today I peeked at the list of what it had blocked in the past few minutes:

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I have tried a lot of video-editing applications, both consumer and "pro" — Avid, Pinnacle, Premiere (and Premiere Elements), Ulead — and none of them can hold a candle to Sony’s Vegas family, which includes Vegas Pro and Vegas Movie Studio.
It’s a shame that Pinnacle Studio and Adobe Premiere Elements are the two big names [...]

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Short white boy.

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Really.

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Argh! Too many e-mails that need followups! Argh!

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All the outlets in our house work fine, save one. With that one, plugging in (and turning on) the vacuum caused the breaker to trip. Most other appliances didn’t, but some did. Clearly there was a problem with the circuit.
It wasn’t overloaded by any stretch, and all the wiring appeared correct according to my plug [...]

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I was thinking about the way we punish people from crime in this country, and it struck me how poorly considered it is.
I’m not talking about the whole "retribution vs. rehabilitation" issue — at least not directly. I’m talking about the general thought process we use in dealing with criminals.
Except for a few oddball [...]

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The good news: BusinessWeek says iTunes is the number-two music retailer in the US behind Wal-Mart. (Neither can hold a candle to pirated music, however; more people get their tunes that way than any other, by a huge margin.)
The bad news: Windows Mobile-based phones are outselling iPhones by a huge margin. Microsoft reports 14.3 million [...]

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Well well well. Turns out that L. Ron Hubbard, the failed sci-fi writer who started the Scientology cult actually stole the whole thing, name and all.
Via Boing Boing, we learn that a German book from 1934 called Scientologie was the basis for much of Hubbard’s work.
Boing Boing got it from a post at Enturbulation, [...]

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Via USA Today:
The Miami Herald says the outages are “cascading” across the region. They’ve been reported in Miami, Doral, Westchester, Pembroke Pines, Miramar and Boca Raton.
WFTV-TV reports that outages are also being reported in the central part of the state, including Brevard, Orange and Osceola counties.

But here’s your money quote: “A spokesman for the [...]

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I’ve changed the addresses of my RSS feeds to exclude the Twitter-based stuff.
As was pointed out in the comments, having the "microblog" is really annoying for people who use RSS to keep up with the site. So I’ve changed the feed address to exclude those entries and thus only show the main blog.
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Speaking of which, how many poor kids could he feed with what he’s gonna spend on a losing campaign?

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Nader to Dems: I’m gonna try to screw you again.

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Woke up this morning and Twitter is working again. Will miracles never cease?

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Yep, Twitter screwed up again. Don’t know why I bother.

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Once again, Twitter has failed me. Or so it seems. I’ll check in the morning.

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OK, it is working. Isn’t this fun? Can you imagine that people do this all day long?

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Well, I thought it was working….

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All right, it’s working!

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I’m not a fan of Twitter; I think it’s kind of silly to expect people to follow your every move, every minute of every day. Further, it’s yet another site for people to go to check in on their friends.
I have a Twitter feed (and Facebook and MySpace pages, among others), but it’s more [...]

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