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Happy Birthday Hypertext Girl

March 20, 2007 – 10:09 pm

Have you kept your New Years Resolution?
It’s mid March already, and most of us have ignored the fact that our taxes are due in less than a month, let alone keeping a resolution that we fail to keep every other year.
I recently met someone who has kept that promise to herself, and is sharing [...]

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What am I doing? Where am I? Ask my phone.

March 13, 2007 – 7:23 pm

Two new mobile services just recently caught my eye. And I have to admit, I am addicted to them.
Twitter, a two-year-old social networking site, asks one simple question, “What are you doing?”
When I first came across this site, I signed up for an account, and sparingly updated my status. I never really got into it [...]

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ACC Defensive Player of the Year

March 6, 2007 – 6:48 pm

Congratulations to senior Jamon Gordon on earning the ACC Defensive Player of the Year.

He had 76 steals this season, and he currently sits at number two on the Hokie all-time steal list.
The Hokies are headed to the ACC tournament at the end of this week, and their impressive record against ACC opponents should earn them [...]

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The 50 Most Important People On The Web

March 5, 2007 – 11:21 pm

from Christopher Null, PC World:
Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, [...]