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Archive for August, 2007

Making Money on Market America

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

I have finally figured out how to make money on Market America! It turns out, all you have to do is blog your opinion about them, as I did a long time ago at: Grant’s Grunts » Market America BS. Then, get picked up by the search engines and the pro-MA people, [...]

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Handcuffs chafe wireless users - Yahoo! News

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Handcuffs chafe wireless users - Yahoo! News
I finally made the break from Verizon…  Here I was paying $65/month for a phone I hardly use b/c it has totally crappy service where I live (in the heart of Cary, NC, which is no backwater, mind you)
It’s just ridiculous that I have this nice phone that [...]

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Jet Blue Irony

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

So, I am sitting in the Jet Blue terminal at JFK using their free wireless (thank you very much.  Why can’t other airlines make wireless free in the terminal?)
At any rate, my flight is delayed and, here is the irony, I can’t actually get on the Jet Blue site to get flight information using [...]

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Really Large File Editing on OS X

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Anyone know a good, free tool for editing large text files (> 500 MBs)?  vi is decent, but not great.  Please email me or leave a comment.  I have an XML file that is around 1 GB that I need to manipulate, but vi is not really cutting it, and Emacs wants to load [...]

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Google selleth then taketh away, proving the need for DRM circumvention

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Google selleth then taketh away, proving the need for DRM circumvention
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen…  Is the shine starting to come off the Google machine?
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Kudos to Cary Drivers Tonight

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Wow.  What an unbelievable bike ride tonight.  There must have been some good karma flowing tonight, because there must have been 5 or 6 separate incidents where cars patiently waited behind me in tricky spots on the road, waited till I passed before pulling out or gave me extra wide berth when passing.  It [...]

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