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Seth Godin: the new Andy Rooney?

I have mixed feelings about Seth Godin. On the one hand, he’s clearly a very smart, funny, creative guy with lots of good ideas about media, technology, marketing and social systems. On the other (and he has this in common … Continue reading

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Dear Verizon: Make Microsoft fix Windows Mobile, or I’m switching to AT&T

I’ve been using PDA’s since 3 months after the first Palm debuted. Love ‘em. Loved the Palm. Because I worked at Verizon (then AirTouch), I was able to get my hands on one of the very first smart phones, which … Continue reading

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WordPress funk — call for group mind assistance

For some reason — I hadn’t changed anything, seriously — I couldn’t get into my WP admin module. Which means I couldn’t do anything to the blog. So I upgrade to a later version of WP, updated the database, and … Continue reading

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iHate iTunes and the iStore

Yes. The iPod and iPhone are sweet and techno whizbang. But… great googly moogly… how much does iTunes and the iStore have to suck before Steve fixes them? I don’t even want to go into it. But the process of … Continue reading

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Dis connection, dat connection

“Connect” is a big word. At my place of work, it ends up in our tagline: OCLC. The world’s libraries. Connected. From last Sunday around 4pm until Thursday around 3pm, we were disconnected by hurricane Ike. According to the weather … Continue reading

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Push polled

So I just got push polled on the Ohio Payday Loan Referendum. Kinda hysterical, until it got to be more than 3 minutes long. Which is my personal time limit for confusing the hey-nonny-nonny out of push pollsters. I’m a … Continue reading

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I feel as if I should write

It’s been a long time. But I just don’t have anything to say. Which is about the least interesting way to start a blog post I can think of. I mean… I have things I *could* say, certainly… 1) I’m … Continue reading

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Mad Stupid

So I downloaded the free trial of “Spore: Creature Creator.” I’ve been drooling in anticipation of the full game of “Spore” now for… I don’t know, Will… how long? 3 years? 5? Something like that. Anyway… played this little mini-preview … Continue reading

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