I love “networking” with my friends and I love reading their thoughts, ideas, and adventures. Therefore, in the spirit of networking and the internet, I want to read more of your blogs - my reading list is full of tech news and other interesting things but seriously lacking in the “people I know” department. Thus, [...]

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To kill Harry Potter, or not to kill him, that is the question facing J.K. Rowling. Of course everyone is wondering and speculating as to which she will choose has chosen, but I’d like to take a more in depth look at this. I see the real question here being would she like [...]

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I’ve been reading bits here and there about Michael Moore’s new movie “Sicko,” (Wikipedia, IMDB) which supposedly exposes the horrors of the health care industry in America. Not surprisingly, the health care industry isn’t too happy about this, and has recently expressed a little bit of concern.

Intrigued by all this talk (and positive reactions), I [...]

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Have you ever watched a trapped fly making futile escape attempts, repeatedly crashing into a window, then fluttering around dazed before repeating the stunt? With the Akismet spam filter built into Wordpres, the comment spammers bear quite a resemblance to the aforementioned fly (man that sounded almost like a commercial…).

A statistic on the front [...]

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With the flurry of new activity and the fact that the current digivation design/layout is growing rather old (approaching the one year mark), I have been contemplating a redesign of the site. This isn’t a new idea - I’ve never been 100% happy with the current layout and have been brainstorming, sketching and creating mock-ups [...]

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In an interesting new “working essay” written recently by researcher danah boyd titled “Viewing American Class Divisions through Facebook and MySpace,” MySpace and Facebook are analyzed in light of the socio-economic (look at me, using big words and stuff) roles that they are playing. Facebook appears to be the choice of most “goodie two shoes, [...]

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Read more about that here, here, and try this search, or read the doom9 post. Now get to unlocking those HDDVDs!

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Yesterday, my dear mother accused me of paying more attention to the sentiments of my fraternity brothers than to her own requests. I won’t bother to comment on the validity of this statement, but I am here to say that, in one aspect, I’m going to try to listen to you: the budget.

I have never [...]

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