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Techcrunch goes political with the US election, Michael Arrington explains: "TechCrunch wants to provide a voice for digital policy and technology issues in the upcoming U.S. Presidential election, and so we've decided to hold our own political primaries online. Voting will be open from Tuesday, December
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moar funny pictures via Aide-mémoire
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I recently upgraded to Microsoft's Office 2007 and what a pleasant surprise it was! The upgrade process was really easy, the product itself has a really nice user interace, and it's easy to use. This is so much better than the previous versions, although I do
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I am reading Christopher Hitchen's Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography . Paine's writings were highly influential in creating the world we know today, where equality before the law and democracy are normal. I'm also dipping into the The Thomas Paine Reader
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Gmail has been crashing my Firefox since I upgraded to version 2.0.0.11 It is very annoying so I've started running IE7 again via Aide-mémoire
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During 2007 I have become a fan of Apple - just a Macbook and and Ipod nothing fancy. But they are sooooo easy to use, and sooooo stylish in design. According to this quiz: 81%How Addicted to Apple Are You? But I must note that I prefer to use
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In my house, somewhat to the consternation of various relatives, we have decided that we are not doing anything for Christmas or on Christmas day. This means no presents, no family get together, no shopping at the mall (except for basic foodstuffs). We are just going to stay home and
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Some nifty advice on how to work out if your son (not daughter though) is a hacker, Leo Laporte and Martin Sargent of TechTV discuss an article from Adequacy.org (it's an oldie but a goodie). via Aide-mémoire
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Thanks to Chris Brogan for this link. This is interesting - as mentioned I don't get pownce; but use jaiku and twitter. My preferences seem to match the stats: twitter, jakiu, pownce. The stats on number of people show a clear preference for twitter: twitter.com 469,914
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This is the funniest thing - a lolcat translation of the bible It includes such gems as 1 Corinthians 13: "(1) iff i talkd wif teh tungz of manz n angylz, n duzzn haz luff, i are becom liek teh human, knockin down all teh potz n panz frm
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This is great commentary on some of the anti-One Laptop discussion recently. Harris makes some good points. I've seen on of these PCs and they are beautifully designed and engineered. Some people just don't get it. OLPC: the best designed notebook in the world by ZDNet&
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Here is another critique of Twitter - this time as the enemy of corporate confidentiality. Does Krigsman not realise that the problem already exists with mobile phones & PDAs? I can already send a text message to the 200 people in my mobile phone's address book. Although Twitter