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Category Archives: Controversy

Follow the Oympic torch

April 9, 2008 – 1:17 pm

Carl Harris and I went down to see the torch at the Embarcadero, but the route was redirected. Here are some of his pictures taken with his iPhone:

It was pretty crazy to see the protesters.

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Zivity: For models and photographers

February 10, 2008 – 8:31 pm

The first time I heard of Zivity, I was skimming the demos of TechCrunch 40.

I finally got an invite about a month ago, and I have yet to be disappointed. Think of Zivity as a social network for models and photographers to exchange resources. As a regular user on the site, you have the opportunity [...]

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“January 1 TCP/IP” scam

January 1, 2008 – 11:20 am

When you visit google.com today, there is a new doodle:

When you click the link, it queries “January 1 tcp/ip“, which links to a Digg story about today being the 25th birthday of TCP/IP.
The funny thing is, under this story is a flurry of Adsense scams.

As soon as the doodle went up, people created content [...]

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A day to remember for baseball and computers

August 8, 2007 – 1:28 am

Early this morning, Apple released it’s new iMac. I don’t need to explain the specs, but I see it as the absolute best personal computer on the market right now.

When I heard about Apple’s blitzkrieg press conference this morning, I got really excited. For once, Apple hadn’t intentionally hyped up a product release. From watching [...]

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iPhone World Premere in SF

July 1, 2007 – 9:59 pm

Did you spend $500 this weekend? I considered it… and then I played with the keyboard. And then I made a phone call.

Without a doubt though, the iPhone is one of the sweetest handheld devices I’ve ever touched, but I’ll pass on the first pass.
iPhone Day

Walking the iPhone line

I got off work at [...]

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Props to PB

April 19, 2007 – 1:11 am

I just wanted to thank Roland Lazenby, Neal Turnage, Kevin Cupp, Courtney Thomas, Tricia Sangalang, Anthony Della Calce, Omar Maglalang, Alex Rickabaugh, Tim Leaton, Jon Atwood, and every else who helped keep Planet Blacksburg up to date during this grieving process.

This community is stronger than ever, and our student population will grow and mourn together. [...]

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