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Quit Thinking Small

November 12, 2008

photo credit: m-c
So, as I was saying, this month is going swimmingly. Those two campaigns recently restarted have kept up their end of the bargain, and even surpassed the return on investment I was seeing initially (one has jumped to 140%, the other 151%). While they are certainly active campaigns, their adspend isn’t as [...]

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Happy Birthday to the Universe! And iPods…

October 23, 2006

Shall we join the Young Earthers and wish the universe a Happy 6,009th? Nah, I prefer at least acting the rational being.

Instead, I’ll better spend my day celebrating the 5th birthday of the iPod. Maybe I’ll just load up a handful of Science Friday episodes and be awed by the natural world. Or load up [...]

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More Money, Less Freedom

October 20, 2006

Despite my recent attempts at avoiding the news of the day, I see the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was actually signed into law on October 17th, essentially poisoning habeas corpus. Oh, and it also appears to somehow allow our country to opt out of the Geneva Conventions of which our country is a signatory [...]

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Anyone Else Tired of the Latest Round of Autoresponder Whoring?

October 5, 2006

Over the last few months, I’ve been looking at various ways of supplementing my income by making a buck or two from a few site I have online. So far I’ve taken a little action, and even made a few dollars. But mostly, I’ve just been digging up all the info I can reasonably find.

Needless [...]

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Time to Work on That News, err, RSS, err, Information Overload

September 27, 2006

Feeddemon tells me ‘You have a total of 9 folders, 373 feeds, 9239 items, 431 unread items, and 287 flagged items‘. And it tells me this after I spend more time than I care to share trying to purge it of sources I haven’t actually visited for some time.

My ‘Read These‘ folder in Gmail has [...]

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