They make me do all the work and somebody took a shit in the fountain

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Dear Readers:
I have a technical question. Is it bad that my cat threw up in my monitor? I don’t mean on my monitor. Literally, she threw up in my monitor. Everything is running fine, and the cat did not die from electric shock. Can I assume that everything remains okay?
Thank you,
Scotty Halfass
UPDATE:
Nate [...]

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Check this out. What’s next, flame jobs and spoilers?

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When was the last time Google didn’t work for you?
These are some people who “get it.” By building a massive cluster of commodity-level computers, they have achieved a remarkable price-performance ratio and handle basically most of the searching that happens on the web. From unreliable parts they cobbled the best service on the [...]

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Leave it to Jason Kottke to provide the best blog-based coverage of a conference I’ve seen yet. It’s not terribly in-depth, but is very insiteful and innovative in many ways.
Kottke always cuts to the core of the fluff, which is nice. With a keen eye on user experience, and the ability to see [...]

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Do you know this song? What do you think of it? Comment below.

The Audiotron is a network-based MP3 player that plugs into your stereo or home entertainment system. For me, it’s far better than having a PC in the living room or a hard-disk-based MP3 entertainment system that will run out [...]

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This from a link in my agent log:
... you noticed an entry in your web server log file that references this page. NPBot is the NameProtect Inc. web crawler. As a Digital Brand Asset Management company, NameProtect engages in crawling activity in search of a wide range of brand and other intellectual property violations that [...]

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Now that we’ve had a few days for it to sink in, I’m starting to see some truly interesting commentary on why on Earth Google would buy Blogger.
One of the more interesting takes I’ve read isDave Winer’s, although I do not believe he is correct in assuming that Blogger’s database did not play heavily into [...]

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Information Week Quote of the Week: “Sun I would frankly not call a highly successful competitor right now.” HP CED Carly Fiorina at a meeting with securities analyst, refuting an analyst’s comment that successful computer companies must develop their own middleware.

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Google enters the distributed computing market for Toolbar users. The first project: protein folding.
Wow!

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Apple, in my opinion, misses the mark with their product line.
They are doing a lot of things right, to the point that I even care about what they are and aren’t doing, so that’s something. I was a die-hard Mac fanatic until I went Windows 3.11 in 1993. I was in a Windows world [...]

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Building your own Mac is easy!

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This is irrational and insane…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/26612.html
Damn the Constitution: Europe must take back the Web
By Bill Thompson
Posted: 09/08/2002 at 14:01 GMT
Guest Opinion I’ve had enough of US hegemony. It’s time for change – and a closed European network.
Today’s Internet is a poor respecter of national boundaries, as many
repressive governments have found to their cost. Unfortunately [...]

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How the postman almost owned e-mail.— interesting read, if you like this sort of stuff…

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Today I passed the second exam in the Sun Solaris 8 Operating Environment. Which means that if I were a dork, I would start appending it to my e-mail signatures.I’ve always been somewhat “anti-cert” because I’ve known plenty of “certified” people in the technical world, and, with the exception of a few select certifications [...]

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