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I would have never survived in the mafia. Sometimes I am so unaware of my surroundings that I'm ashamed. My boss walked with me into the office, and as he opened the door to the shop in the back, I heard a loud "Surprise!!!". I felt the urge to start clapping for John and immediately started to feel worried that I had forgotten about some sort of surprise party for him that I was supposed to

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After many months of frustration with these thoughts swirling in my head, I have decided to write them down and share them. So here are 5 things that Android devices could be doing to leapfrog Apple in the market, but aren't. First off, I love android. I really do. And probably the number one reason I love it is because I feel like I own, and am in control of, my mobile life. No app store lock

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Just wanted to throw down some thoughts here about how beneficial scouting has been for my son, and for my family. Neo went to one of the Boy Scout Troop meetings with his Webelos den last night. As they get closer to transitioning from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts, they go on some campouts together with the older boys, and also go to a few troop meetings to try to get a feel for which troop they

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I thought this was some interesting interaction with the Occupy Wall St. protests. Sure, there are different levels of education and eloquence, but there are some good discussions in here. And even if you hate Schiff, and everything he preaches, you can't deny that he was the only one going on national TV telling everyone to get out of real-estate and predicting the giant crash to come while

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Microsoft's Ballmer has a history of bashing devices right after they are released to try and get investors to appreciate the Microsoft position. Today, the day after the Google Nexus and Android ICS was announced, Ballmer came out and trashed the device and Android. For a reference, let's hear what he had to say about the original iPhone. (Worth noting here that at the time he made these

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Christian and I had a date night recently and have been planning to see this movie for some time. I'm really glad we set aside some time to go see it. It may be the best movie I've seen all year. Perhaps I felt so good walking out of the theater just because of how refreshing it felt to see such a good story on the screen. Perhaps it was the story more than the movie that I liked. That

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What an awesome idea. I guess my first thought is... why wasn't NASA doing things like this all along? You can read the blog post from Google

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I thought this was amazing. This is, to me, proof that solutions to problems will come from engineers and innovators, and not politicians.

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Well, I am going to try and get the blog going again. Seems like a good first topic is trying to get blogger, google+, twitter, and Google Reader all integrated together. The obvious hub for all this information would be google+, but they just don't seem to have these services coupled yet. You can see the integration with google+ and Picasa, just not with Reader and Blogger! I know I'm

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even funnier:http://flash-of-genius.com/blog/?p=8

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wow... and with billions of dollars at stake too... just wow.http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-china.html

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WHAAAAATTTT!!!! IS that LEGAL????? http://androidcommunity.com/droid-1-iphone-3gs-4-in-time-top-10-gadgets-for-2009-take-that-iphone-20091209/

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the saints... i mean... wow. 12 and 0. Let's hope we can stick it out for home field advantage, and get to the big one this year!!!

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Finally starting to get some services moved over to the new server. Hopefully publishing this on the blog will work too!!

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Wow. You can't make this stuff up. It just keeps getting better all the time.http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/147253/Apple-Voiding-Smokers-Warranties?art_pos=3

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too perfect. my thoughts exactly.http://xkcd.com/662/

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wow... this looks pretty cool. many of the things we scream about at work when using C or C++ seem to be some of the same things that this language is trying to fix. I especially like the concept of the gofmt command!http://golang.org/

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Finally managed to get the netbook onto my rsnapshot backup scheme. As I talked about in this post, there are issues trying to backup machines with rsnapshot that use WOL or are wireless netbooks that are sometimes on and sometimes not. So, I wrote a script that constantly polls for a machine and backs it up if it is one the network (detailed in the linked post above). But now... a new

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very cool... might use this when discussing code with peers:Codepad

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I thought this was a great address to kids on the white house lawn.

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wow... imagine this, but with people modeling software logic, and inserting pseudocode. Then imagine an export out to the language of choice with all the function names, prototypes, and pseudocode in comment form all filled in.Wow.This is a real tool that could help software development.

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i thought this was an interesting article discussing some of the data on tax rates:http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2009/08/31/the-truth-about-taxes/i'm sure i have big disagreements with many over what tax policy SHOULD be... but it is interesting to see some real numbers for comparison.

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I love Android, but I'm also very excited about this phone. I may consider switching if it comes to T-Mobile!!You gotta love competition.http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/27/nokia-n900-running-maemo-5-officially-500-in-october/

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had a date night with Christian last night. Things went well. After dinner we went to the movies and saw "District 9". Although it is a great movie, it was probably a bit too gross and violent for a date night movie. There is an understanding that on the next date night, I will pick the place to eat, and Christian will pick the movie :)

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September 30th! If this protocol catches on... being open like email is... it could revolutionize the web.I've been watching this for some time, so it is exciting to see a date assigned.If you have no idea what Google Wave and the Wave protocol is, watch the above video. Incredible stuff.My favorite parts: Rosy the robot... the sample integration with a bug tracker and a blog... and the

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