Monthly Archives: March 2009

Exploiting Friend-of-Friend: How Facebook Can Become An Effective Dating Site

Single people: Are you sick of seeing this crap on Facebook? I am. Thing is – I’ll never sign up for Singlesnet or any dating site. I don’t want to meet somebody on those sites. If I were looking I’d … Continue reading

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An Economy of True Friendship…and Penalties

ABC writes Facebook: Job Hunters Over 30 Beware. It includes the story of “Stella” – a 36 year old publicist who’s past came back to haunt her on Facebook. One of her sorority sisters from years ago thought it would … Continue reading

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A System For Global Keyboard Shortcuts

I used to never use keyboard shortcuts, but these days a few of them are so ingrained in my brain that I can’t live without them. On the keyboards I use, the S key is beginning to fade. It starts … Continue reading

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Adium 1.4 Will Have Twitter Support

I’ve been thinking of weening myself off the Twitter, but Adium’s upcoming implementation looks ideal. Fear not! Using Matt Gemmell’s MGTwitterEngine, a library used to communicate with the Twitter API, I’ve managed to make what I consider to be a … Continue reading

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Mixing for MP3 Is Stupid

In my opinion. Once in a while I’ll read something about mixing engineers and how they create different mixes for CDs and digital music services. The arguments are that encodes don’t recreate certain frequencies well, like anything below 100hz. So … Continue reading

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Link: I Went To The Mirror

Bob Lefsetz on Todd Rundgren: But how come no one under twenty five seems to know Todd Rundgren? How come he had to do that execrable New Cars tour for the cash? Can’t we bring one of our supremely talented … Continue reading

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YouTube – Airwolf intro

I’ve had the theme from Airwolf stuck in my head for a bit.

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