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Monthly Archives: November 2009

Report spam for spam

Saturday, November 28, 2009

To report spam to twitter you have to follow the “spam” user then direct message it. Interestingly, you can report spam for spam.

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I just fell for an email scam

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Just got an email that looked like it was a direct message from friend-band Wembley. It say “I found you on here” and then listed a link to what looks like some sort of twitter-endorsed video site. I click on the link and it asks me to sign into twitter. I’m not signed into twitter. [...]

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Bacon weave turkey

Thursday, November 26, 2009
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Apple iTablet content request

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

I’ve heard a lot about rumored exclusive content for the rumored Apple tablet. You know what I’d pay for? Old comic books. No way do I have the money to buy these original comic books, but I’d pay something for a well scanned version delivered to a high-res color screen. I just watched the Spiderman [...]

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Everyone including I

Monday, November 23, 2009

When you determine if you are to use “me” or “I” isn’t it the rule that you are supposed to ignore the words relating to other people? For example “John and me went swimming” is wrong because “me went swimming” isn’t how ya say it. Here I am now really confused when it comes to [...]

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Is it “green” to keep my computer on all the time if it heats the house?

Saturday, November 21, 2009

It’s a simple question, Norm: does a computer take the same amount of power as an electric heater does to produce the same amount of heat? Am I, in these winter months, justified in never shutting down my machine because I’m actually benefitting from the massive amount of heat this monster Mac Pro belches out?

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I’ve Unsubscribed to Wired’s RSS

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Wired, you were really interesting and useful for a long time, but things have changed in the last year or so. You’re on the back end of the wave. I’m unsubscribing because this is the majority of Wired’s content and I find none of this useful: Look at this pretty NASA photo Try to find [...]

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Chapel Hill FAILS!

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

It’s always good to see your local community featured in prominent blogs. Though, this isn’t the first time. Remember those crazy bike trails in the woods near Chapel Hill High School? This picture is from there (incidentally, very close to where I proposed to Meredith!):

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