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“Iran OKs construction of 10 uranium enrichment plans,” eh? Raise you hand if you think some other folks might NOT OK it.

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No matter where you’re going this Thanksgiving, I’m willing to bet you’ll have a more pleasant trip than this guy:

 
Keep safe. Give thanks. Have fun.

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Only two Google Voice invites left!

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I am sick to death of having to code a Web page so it looks the same in Firefox and Internet Explorer! ARGH!

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“I wanted to do science… he wanted an impossible fantasy. He wants to chase unicorns, when he could be genetically modifying the structure of a horse’s skull!”
From Snowflakes.

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I forgot to charge my Really Great Mouse (the Logitech MX Revolution, if you care). It lasts for a week on a charge, so it’s easy to forget. So I switched to whatever I could find as an emergency backup mouse — in this case, a super-cheap Logitech NX50 notebook mouse.
Erg. What junk. How [...]

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Nice piece from the Electronic Frontier Foundation called “DVR Is TV’s New BFF“:
Digital Video Recorders (DVRs), once considered a mortal threat by the entertainment industry, have now become its new best friend. It’s just the latest example of how the industry’s constant warnings of the dangers of “piracy” frequently turn out to be baseless hysteria.

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In some ways, old media is a lot easier to deal with.

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Grrr. Stupid WordPress-Twitter-Facebook integration!

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It’s Friday afternoon, which means our Internet connection slows to a crawl. Every week.

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Enough of the computer. It’s pizza time.

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Spam filter. Thunderbird has one, and it’s darned good. Outlook doesn’t, although it claims to. It doesn’t catch most spam, and it’s not trainable.
Customization. I can change just about anything about Thunderbird’s look and feel. For example, the text size of anything. (In Outlook I can only change the font of the message list; the [...]

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Sorry for the repeating posts. Still unglitching Twitter-WordPress integration.

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The news is reporting unemployment at 10.2 percent, but as always, that’s incorrect.
The actual number, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics:

153,975,000 Americans in the workforce
15,700,000 collecting unemployment benefits
5,995,000 who want a job but have used up their unemployment benefits

Total unemployed / workforce = 14.8 percent
(That’s 21.7 million unemployed out of [...]

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Really good xkcd comic today: http://is.gd/4OTAF

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Whoops — got into an infinite loop with Twitter and WordPress.

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In this Age of the Internet, why oh why don’t newspapers that write about bills in Congress GIVE THE BILL NUMBER?

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Its Project Natal product does away with controller completely. Per Newsweek:
[I]nstead of a player holding a gadget, a special device mounted beneath the TV uses a video camera, an infrared sensor, and software to identify a player’s motions. The gamer’s actual silhouette, not a generic avatar, can then be inserted directly into games.

OK, so now [...]

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I love having my voice mail transcribed by Google Voice, but I do get a kick out of some of the stuff that comes through. Like today:
Hi, this number. Karen Hey, this is Tina, vandyne convert the. Mobil’s management systems. Gramp when I do with your return call from you today. The number you can [...]

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We got a zillion “International” calls on Caller ID. Turns out they were Bob McDonnell robocalls. Guess campaigning is cheaper overseas.

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