Category: miscellaneous
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TDI Update – unsafe speed(ometer)?
I am still very happy with my new Jetta TDI. The gas mileage has stayed above 45 MPG consistently, even when I was driving it a bit harder (got the change to go on some twisties near the house and ‘used’ the transmission a bit more than that brakes). The interior is very comfortable and…
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There are still crazy people in the world…
Monocopter
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Corporate blogging policy
As I wrote the title of this post, it occurred to me that “blogging” and “policy” is a bit like “military” and “intelligence”. However, I think I have finally convinced enough people inside my company that we need to get engaged in the conversation and start blogging, at least in some form. The one request…
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So if links are dead, why all the traffic?
Just trying to figure this out. Steve Gillmor has been talking about the fact that links are dead for while now on his podcast (along with Office being dead…which is a whole other post). It seemed to make sense to me until yesterday. Until then I was looking at it from an information consumers standpoint. …
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Interesting new assignment
Sorry the posts have been slow because, but my whole team just got through with a 2 day meeting to get ready for FY2007. Generally I don’t like those kind of meetings because it ends up being a lot of short conversations where only 2-3 people are engaged and everyone else just has to sit…
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Connecting with the blogosphere
Not sure how exactly this worked out, but in my quest to find a mobile blogging client so I wouldn’t have to lug my PC around everywhere I tried out the new one that Dave Winer posted today (see earlier post). As a result I am on Scripting News and got a comment from Steve…
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Test of moblogger
So it seems I have at least one thing in common with Dave Winer: we both want to be able to blog with our mobile devices. This is a test of a new tool he just released as part of scripting.com call yomoblog. I hope Steve Gilmore Gillmor is right that links are dead because…
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WM5 Blog writer?
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Just what I have been looking for…a place to rest my bones around the farm
I’m a first issue subscriber to Make Magazine, but I rarely look at their website. Fortunately I happened to see this because I need a few benches around the farm. This looks easy to make and fairly sturdy. I may have found my labor day weekend project. MAKE: Blog: HOW TO – Make a Leopold…