opinion-and-editorial
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Leaving Jesusland lyrics by NoFx
We call the heartland not very smartland, IQ’s are very low but threat levels are high They got a mandate, they don’t want man-dates, they got so many hates and people to despise In the dust bowl, cerebral black hole, the average weight is well over 200 pounds I hate to generalize, but have you…
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Trivia that matters to you
Trivia that matters. 1,000,000. The number of plastic cups we use on airline flights every 6 hours. 40,000,000 – Paper cups we use a day for hot drinks. Out of all the countries in the world, US has the largest percentage of its population imprisoned. 400,000 People die each year from smoking cigarettes. “On 911…
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Lucky number eight
In just a couple of weeks, the 2008 Summer Olympic games will begin. China as you know, will host this year’s event. Back in March I heard that China had been biding to get the rights to host the games on 2008 for quite a while, and apparently when they first requested this, it became…
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If Looking for a new Webhost, skip XO.
I’ve had the misfortune of dealing with a particular webhost recently. They’ve been around for quite sometime. They were one of the early players of webhosting. This is the worse customer support experience I’ve dealt with in webhosting. When I asked for help, all I got was the classic response “read the documentation.” I had…
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Keep up with the latest WordPress version, its good for ya.
The latest WordPress version has been released, and it comes loaded with dozens of cool features, bugfixes an what I call “efficiency tweaks”. Its worthwhile to get your site upgraded if you’re using WordPress, remember, if you have a vanilla WordPress installation you can use the InstantUpgrade plugin and be on your way in under…
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Get rid of your old iPhone and get bucks
Check this out. Cellforcash is a cool site that buys your cell phone from you. Right now, iPhones seem to have one of the best payouts. So if you’re going to get the brand new iPhone, you might want to sell your old one to these guys. check out this link to sell your old…
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Follow-up, PicLens awesomeness.
If you didn’t read my last post about PicLens, you should. I want to highlight a few of the really cool features this addon has. I have had a bit more time now to play with it, and I’m very impressed. Even more so than when I started using it. Last night, while I was…
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Awesome burgers at The Counter in Irvine
We went to The Counter the other day, there is a new location in Irvine. If you’ve never heard of it, I recommend you give it a try. Their thing is “Custom Built Burgers”, They are the best non-fast food burgers I’ve ever had. I think this is largely in part because you can put…
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Iron Mans Suit Defies Physics — Mostly
I went out to see IronMan last night. It blew me away, you should definitely watch it in a theatre that offers good quality sound, DTS is awesome. The movie is well done, the story line is believable and you actually end up liking the whole story. I wish it would have been longer but…
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The God Delusion
I told you my next book to read would be The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. I started reading it, but unfortunately I got distracted with my San Francisco trip and Mexico WRC trip. After coming back I’ve been catching up and doing some development on my business. I finally got some time to sink…