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Shoot first and ask questions later?

Welcome! It looks like this is the first time you’re visiting my site. You may want to follow my posts by adding my RSS feed to your reader. Or, if you’re not sure about RSS, you can subscribe via email. You probably don’t know that I also write for Photografr. Lately, I’ve been posting photos [...]

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Sometimes it’s not worth it to be nice

For the past couple of months, I’ve been getting spammed by a German company that shall remain unnamed, since they don’t deserve the extra publicity, bad as it may be. I mentioned them in one of my old posts, or rather I linked to a TechCrunch post that talked about them. I figured I probably [...]

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What the Duck on watermarks

Aaron Johnson, the creator of What the Duck, has apparently seen this post of mine, where I talk about image theft. He’s just sent me an email to let me know of today’s WTD, which handles the issue of watermarks and image theft in that wonderful, funny way that I’ve come to love.
Here’s the strip [...]

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Google to buy FeedBurner in next 2-3 weeks

I thought it odd that I got no reaction whatsoever from the FeedBurner folks when I compared their site stats service with Google Analytics back in April, and deemed FeedBurner superior. I keep in touch regularly with a couple of folks from FeedBurner, and when I write about them, I usually get a little note [...]

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Want a Gmail invite?

Still don’t have a cool Gmail account? I’ve got 90 Gmail invites to give out. Get in touch with me if you’d like one, and I’ll gladly oblige.

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Google Apps for Your Domain gets going

In what I think is an astonishing twist, Google has turned their “private label” Gmail service offered about 6 months ago to companies and schools interested in the idea into Google Apps for Your Domain, an all-in-one solution that offers Gmail, Google Talk, Google Calendar and Google Pages for whatever domain you’d like. In typical [...]

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Environmental groups don’t know when to stop emailing

I care about the environment, and I subscribe to the newsletters for several environmental groups, so I’m kept informed of what’s going on. I’ve always known they border on abusing their subscribers, by promising low frequency, then writing once or twice a week, and that’s in addition to requests for money. Within the past two [...]

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A slideshow of Paris architecture

Just got this by email: Architecture Parisienne. Photos by Gérard Thérrin. Enjoy!

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Someone’s reading your email at work

This is a bit of old news, but the NYT is running a story on how companies read their employees’ email at work. The bottom line’s worth repeating, because people just don’t seem to learn: don’t use work email for personal messages!
I say this from experience. I’ve been an IT Director twice in my career, [...]

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A few funny photos

Got these by email, they’re pretty funny.

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Nabaztag: the smart WiFi bunny from France

I’ve been playing with my Nabaztag bunny for the last few days, preparing to review it for the I Want That! Tech Toys show on HGTV, which launches this summer. It’s a very cute little bunny with ears that can move. It’s constantly connected to the Internet by WiFi, and you can program it to [...]

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A cool new service: GotVoice

GotVoice is a new service that will check your voicemail for you, convert it to MP3 files, and email it to you. This is great, because I’d been looking for a way to archive important phone messages. Say someone calls you up and says they got married. Wouldn’t want to have that archived, to play [...]

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