June 2011
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Earlier at the park. There's no doubt he's my...
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@kzwicker It's sunny here!
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Matthew's Father's Day portrait of me. I'm...
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Slow day at the ice cream parlor.
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Please welcome the latest addition to the Peterson...
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May 2011
6 posts
Is Microsoft About To Overpay For Skype?
The deal buzzards are swirling around Skype, and Microsoft may end up with the prize. Om first reported the rumor, which is now getting major play by the WSJ. Microsoft is in final negotiations to buy Skype for $7 billion, according to the WSJ report. The final price might go closer to $8 billion. Google and Facebook were also sniffing around Skype, which put off its IPO earlier this year to...
How To Spot A Bubble
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At least one of them still likes to hang out with...
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Where to Live to Avoid a Natural Disaster - Map
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We have an early favorite for best birthday toy....
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Party survived. The birthday boy had a blast.
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April 2011
19 posts
Your Guide To The Homes Of Superheroes In NYC...
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WoHoo! First deck work day of the year!
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New Tracking System Can Pin Any Internet User's...
Unless you explicitly give permission to use your location, interested parties (like, say, advertisers) can only track you with geolocation to within a radius of about 200 kilometers. But researchers in China and the U.S. have figured out a way to get closer—much closer. With a three-stage system using Google Maps, these researchers can, according to New Scientist, get as close as a few...
The SlobStopper: An Adult Bib Because You've...
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DARPA Video Game Lets You Teach Military Software...
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New Thor clip features blink-and-you'll-miss-it...
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Red Sox swept by Indians, have yet to win a game
At 0-6, the Red Sox are off their worst start since 1945, when they lost a team-record eight straight. Boston, favoured by many to win the World Series, returns to Fenway Park for its home opener Friday against the New York Yankees. via tsn.ca In other news, Jays fans are the happiest they’ve been in years. Posted via email from .NET Cowboy | Comment »
The Problem is Not Information Overload | GTD...
What’s the problem? There is one, but not the one that’s been popularized. “Information overload” has been the commonly identified culprit, coupled with universal access. That gives the picture of a mounting pile of stuff under which we are constantly and increasingly buried. And if incessant information bombardment is what we are trying to deal with, then help shows up as attempts to filter,...
Coming soon: Better Ads in Gmail - Gmail Help
With features like Priority Inbox, we’ve been working hard to help sort through the ‘bacn’ in your messages — the unimportant messages that get in your way. Soon we’re going to try a similar approach to ads: using some of the same signals that help predict which messages are likely to be important to you, Gmail will better predict which ads may be useful to you. For example, if you’ve...
Ugh. April 2nd. Why haven't I moved to California...
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Large hole discovered after Southwest flight makes...
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ThinkGeek :: PLAYMOBIL(TM) Apple Store Playset
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How the Philadelphia Phillies' rotation was built...
Suppose, back in December 2009, the Phillies had never traded away Cliff Lee? It’s a question that still gnaws at the gut of the general manager who traded him, Ruben Amaro Jr. Sixteen months later, the GM still isn’t sure “if it was the right move or the wrong move,” he says. Well, it was probably the wrong move on a million levels, despite the logic that motivated...
It would seem Mother Nature is the biggest...
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Announcing Basecamp Enterprise Server for Windows...
You asked for it. We listened. We’re proud to announce that Basecamp Enterprise Server for Windows NT is available for mail-order today! It’s the Basecamp you know and love packed onto 37 easy-to-install 3.5 floppy disks. It’s as easy as A:\install.exe. via 37signals.com Nothing like a little retro computer humor. Posted via email from .NET Cowboy | Comment »
Fireball season enters full bloom – This Just In -...
Spring is fireball season,” said Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Center. “For reasons we don’t fully understand, the rate of bright meteors climbs during the weeks around the vernal equinox. via news.blogs.cnn.com Posted via email from .NET Cowboy | Comment »
Celebrate April Fools' Day with These Harmless...
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Twitter Kills The #Dickbar
Yes, it’s happened. Three days after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey comes back in to head product, the dreaded #Dickbar, or the Quickbar that inserted trending topics and promoted ads into your tweet-stream on the iPhone, is dead. via techcrunch.com And thankfully this one is NOT an April Fool’s joke. Posted via email from .NET Cowboy | Comment »
Gmail Motion BETA
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March 2011
5 posts
NATO takes over air operations as CIA works the...
NATO took sole command of air operations in Libya on Thursday as CIA operatives worked the field to connect with rebel fighters who have seen their surge toward Tripoli impeded. via cnn.com Because nothing EVER goes wrong when the CIA gets involved. Posted via email from .NET Cowboy | Comment »
Scared Shitless | 43 Folders
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Every exoplanet orbiting every star discovered by...
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Guess which Avengers cameo just got confirmed in...
The next scene, however, was the big Easter Egg money shot. The world discovers Mjolnir, and soon enough, Agent Coulson is on the scene — just like in the after the credits scene in Iron Man 2. Thor sneaks into the temporary complex S.H.I.E.L.D. has constructed around his grounded hammer. Naturally, he gets busted, and he gets into a fight with a gaggle of agents (the scenes you’ve seen of...
AppleInsider | Dell, HP execs lash out at Apple's...
Executives from rival technology companies Dell and HP spoke out against Apple this week, with a Dell executive predicting that the iPad will fail, while an HP executive criticized Apple’s relationships with its partners. via appleinsider.com Did anyone notice if they were in a schoolyard yelling “Nana nana bo-bo” at each other? Posted via email from .NET...
January 2011
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Kindle Tip: Use Mobile Sites and Article Mode When...
One of the main disadvantages of the Kindle cited by my iPad-loving friends is that web browsing on a device meant for reading is lackluster at best. Indeed, Amazon doesn’t help its own case by listing the built-in, WebKit browser as Experimental. I have found however that the Kindle browsing experience is greatly enhanced by using two features. The first feature really isn’t...
Caffeine-Fueled Mayhem
If primetime TV is to be believed, I have lucked into having the best mother-in-law in recorded history. I look forward to her coming when she visits and never cringe in Al Bundy-esque fear at the notion. That being said, she does have a hard time buying gifts for me. Knowing that I am a reader, the last 13 years she has bought me books. Good first guess. Unfortunately the books she often...
Review: Decision at Thunder Rift
Long before the Wii, XBox 360, or PS/3 provided an afternoon’s cathartic enjoyment, paper and pencil RPGs were the bread and butter of nerd entertainment. In their heyday in the mid-80s to early 90s, paper and pencil gaming covered a plethora of niches and genres across the whole spectrum of the imagination. And while some perennial favorites like Dungeons and Dragons still do their best...
A Passion ReKindled
I have always been a passionate and dedicated reader. As a child I loved being read to, as an adolescent I devoured books with vigor, and as a young adult my collection of worn paperbacks once threatened the sanctity of a relationship. Somewhere along the line though my reading fell by the wayside; a byproduct of too much work, too much information and a loss of the simple joy of sitting...
October 2010
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
The news came across the tubes last week that Steve Jobs had a very interesting dinner guest a few weeks earlier. Mark Zuckerberg, the much maligned genius of Facebook, had visited the Apple CEO at home for a little food and conversation. One can imagine a Godfather-style meeting of the minds, the older Don relaying a life’s knowledge to a beloved underling or perhaps the older soldier...
10 Great Bing Online Games You Can Play For Free
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XnView – A Free Image Viewer and Image Converter...
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Set Up Growl Notifications Between Different...
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Tech Tools to Check Out the Night Sky | Apartment...
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Mac OS == iOS?
One of the most famous quotes attributed to American writer Mark Twain is “The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” The Mac OS team in Cupertino must feel the same way today. The complete emphasis on iOS at WWDC this year gave pause to many tech pundits to wonder if the Mac was dead, as foreign to this modern age as punch card driven computers were to mine. To some...
Don't Touch That!
A funny thing happened the other day. Daniel (my three year old) and I were home and while I worked he was watching cartoons on Netflix. We stream through the Wii so I’m making the assumption here that the UI between the various console steaming options are the same. Anyway, the Spongebob episode he was watching finished and he told me he wanted to watch something else. I navigated back...
September 2010
18 posts
A visit to the Soviet arcade game museum
In late 2009, two intrepid bloggers visited a museum of Soviet arcade games outside of Moscow. What did they find? A subterranean den of gaming classics from behind the Iron Curtain. via io9.com Posted via email from .NET Cowboy | Comment »
iTunes 10 Doesn’t Play Nice with Automator -- But...
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Fantastic Floating Desk Find Flickr Finds |...
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AppleInsider | Apple now offers HTML5-based movie...
The new Showtimes page on the iTunes Movie Trailers website allows users to find their closest theaters manually, via zip code, or they can opt to have the site determine the closest theater for them. The interactive site is unsurprisingly free of Adobe Flash, built on the HTML5 standard that Apple supports. via appleinsider.com Posted via email from .NET Cowboy | Comment »