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How Dropbox saved my Kindle and kept me from destroying my Google CR 48

2011 . Mar . 27

Okay…. so I have been living my life from Google’s Beta Chrome laptop for the last couple months… And it’s great for the most part. Boots fast. Does most of what I need it to do. But it doesn’t have a freaking file browser… and that’s a big problem: The unfortunate bits come into play [...]

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O.M.G. Google Listens

2011 . Feb . 7

The events of my life often don’t make sense to me. Life feels precariously balanced on the knife-edge…  and at moments of synchronisity, it can be jarring, and yet reaffirming. My mind reels at those moments. Last night was one of those moments. Last week was spent on the road and in the air. Travel, [...]

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Want to win some Vibrams?

2011 . Jan . 21

I just registered to win a pair of Vibrams at http://www.myfivefingers.com/win-fivefingers/ Part of the registration process requires that I submit this linkback to their blog :( We’ll see if they offer good news in their newsletter. Bet they don’t know what I just heard through the grapevine from an anonymous Adidas representative: Adidas is coming [...]

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The end of globalization? a loose/weak/unscientific hypothesis

2011 . Jan . 13

Hypothesis: We’re near or past the peak of globalization How would we try to evaluate that? Here’s a few articles that I found interesting… The end of GDP as a measure – http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/business/global/15gdp.html President Nicolas Sarkozy told the French national statistics agency Monday to take greater account of factors like quality of life and the environment [...]

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Too big to fail

2010 . Dec . 20

A friend of mine sent me a link about Google’s size (no, silly… it’s size in the market). I get enough spam comments about my own size already, but I thought perhaps I’d take a moment to put down my thoughts about how much of a good thing is too much. So, here’s another letter [...]

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Much ado about Wikileaks, Amazon and corporate influence

2010 . Dec . 15

It’s a frustrating position to be in. I don’t care very much for the way that I see things occurring in the real world. Yet, there’s really nothing I can do about it. So, it occurred to me when I saw that Amazon had blacklisted wikileaks from it’s cloud-services, that I could boycott them. Oh [...]

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How do I get a CR-48 from Google?

2010 . Dec . 7

Today I watched the ChromeOS event and I’m sold. I can’t wait to get a CR48 with Chrome OS on it from Google.  But HOW DO I GET ONE OF THESE DEVICES?!?!?! (I won’t be able to type like that when I finally do get one, because there’s no caps-lock key) I signed up for [...]

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Free Speech and Freedom From Gate Rape

2010 . Nov . 22

So, if it ever comes up in conversation… here’s a good reason to have free-speech (net-neutral bit transmission). This guy is operating a private blog, and has a very important story to tell. Imagine if somebody (a cable-modem operator) in a position of authority decided that you weren’t supposed to be reading this. Then you’d [...]

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Some birds are fast… so fast.

2010 . Sep . 19

Any of my friends will tell you, I’m a dork for birds.  In particular, it’s the working model of air-viscosity that birds seem to have which intrigues me.  Is it instinctual, coming form their genetics? Or is it a function of living their lives in the air, that each bird learns about wind and motion independently [...]

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Dave McClure, I thoroughly disagree with you.

2010 . May . 22

tl;dr – Some guy said some things I disagree with, then commented on an article about his statement. I saw that he responded, and thought it might be a prime opportunity to spout off. My reply: it’s not a zero sum game, don’t pretend like you’re something bigger than you are… you’re status and position [...]

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