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How Does Google Work?

I don’t know how Google works. I applied for a job as an editor there, but decided that they weren’t right for me.* So I guess I’ll never know. Today, as a sort of joke having nothing to do with Google, I created a foreign sounding phrase, and posted it as a comment on a […]

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Save the Semicolon

I own the domain, savethesemicolon.com. There’s nothing there, so don’t bother looking. Anyway, it’s about to expire (in February) and I can’t figure out whether to keep it or not. I wish I had the energy to really save the semicolon. But I may not.

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Global Warming

I mentioned before that Denis Dutton, aldaily.com guy (along with other things), responded almost immediately to my email about a typo on his site. It got fixed on the same day. Then, on Christmas day, I wrote aldaily about another typo, and Denis wrote back that day again. Twice! Once to say thanks, and once […]

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Computers are Dumb

I get hundreds of comment spams a day for this blog. If it’s not obvious what that means, it means that spammers leave spam comments on my posts. Since the email address they enter isn’t on my “Allowed” list, their comments go to a queue where I decide whether to approve them or not. Obviously, […]

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CNN vs. ALDAILY

Of course, CNN Online is abysmal and aldaily ROCKS. But other than that, here’s the difference: When I write to CNN Online to tell them of a mistake in an article (like a typo, or missing words, or sentences that end in the middle of a thought), I never hear a word, and the mistake stays […]

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More Kindle

Ok, so I’m thinking about this now. They’re selling a lot of new books at $9.99, which is cheaper than Sony sells theirs for. But with Sony, I download to my computer. This means that I can download lots more than I actually can fit onto my reader. Then, just like with an iPod, I manage […]

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Kindle

Ever since I heard rumors that Amazon was coming out with an eBook reader, I’ve been waiting for it. It’s here. It’s expensive, at $400. It’s wireless, which is awesome. You do your shopping and downloading right from the device, which apparently works on a cell phone (or cell phone-like) network, so you’re not limited […]

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Get Rich Get laid

Someone I knew told me that someone HE knew used to look around ATMs for receipts that people would throw on the ground (instead of in the trash can exactly 1 foot from the machine). He’d find one with a big number in the account, then use it as “scratch paper” next time he wanted […]

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