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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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Advice to Young Men from an Old Man

March 16, 2007 – 5:13 pm

This is from the Best of Craigslist:
1. Don’t pick on the weak. It’s immoral. Don’t antagonize the strong without cause, its stupid.
2. Don’t hate women. It’s a waste of time
3. Invest in yourself. Material things come to those that have self actualized.
4. Get in a fistfight, even if you are going to lose.
5. As a [...]

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Five Useful Twittering Tips

March 15, 2007 – 6:22 pm

Twitter is a growing network of real-time away messages which asks the simple question, “What are you doing?”
Here are five suggestions that I dreamed up to make your experience more fun:

Be Creative.
Try to write favorites. A lot of users recieve updates via text message or SMS. Don’t use phrases like, “I am doing [this]” or [...]

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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, [...]

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What is Loyalty?

February 1, 2007 – 7:46 pm

One of my good buddies asked me the question, “What is loyalty?” It got me thinking…
Loyalty is about trust. It’s about compromise. It’s about listening.
It’s really just about truth. If you want someone else to be loyal to you, be honest with them. I am not saying to hurt someone’s feeling if you don’t like [...]

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Semantics Are The Best

January 22, 2007 – 10:26 am

The world wide web’s architecture has dramatically changed in the past few years. Browsers wars have been fought and won, and startups have been run into the ground.
With all this shifting and manipulating of technologies, there must be some importance placed on semantics. That is, seperating markup (XHTML) from design (CSS), and even seperating behavior [...]