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The Nigerians now customize their 419 scams?

Just got this in my mailbox. Standard 419 stuff, but this one is actually somewhat targeted:
Hello
my name is tineke am from U SA and i am a journalist i work for newspapers and magazines and some T V  i am in  Nigeria for some new and  information we like sell some information that is very [...]


Wordpress for iPhone 2 Has Arrived

Just a quick test of Wordpress for iPhone 2


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7 May 2009 @ 11am

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This is what HD Video was made for

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Super Slo-mo Surfer! – South Pacific – BBC Two

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29 April 2009 @ 10am

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Talk about a smart way of using Flickr…

The original page is at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/norby

Created with Skitch from plasq – http://plasq.com


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27 April 2009 @ 11am

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Love these informercial remixes on YouTube – Slap Chop Rap

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Hyper-Specialists and the Blogosphere

Great post by Steve Spalding about specialization and the Internet today:
The old adage goes that a Jack of all trades is a master of none. This is mostly true, but it’s equally important to note that if you plan on being a Jack of one trade, you better know for a fact that your trade [...]


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23 May 2008 @ 4pm

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Back again – Did I Miss Anything?

Judging from the rain outside here, it looks like I must have arrived back home…
First of all a big thanks to Corvida from SheGeeks for her great (dare I say awesomesauce) guest post while I was gone!
I just spend a little while reading up on what’s been going on in the blogosphere, but it looks [...]


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6 May 2008 @ 7pm

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Program Notice: Intermittent Blogging Ahead

Just a quick programming note: I’ll be traveling for most of the time during the next two weeks, so updates will be few and in between, starting tomorrow.
I will be checking in now and then and if something really interesting happens, I’m sure I won’t be able to stop myself from writing about it, [...]


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25 April 2008 @ 1am

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Blogging is the most stressful occupation? Can we get some perspective please?

I’m a big fan of ReadWriteWeb, but this article about the stress of news blogging is too far over the top for me:
News blogging is probably one of the most stressful occupations you can have. [my emphasis] First, you have to watch the crazy-fast moving, non-stop tech world all the time. News bloggers have thousands [...]


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15 April 2008 @ 4pm

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Tuesday Afternoon Thoughts

Facebook launched some new, ‘lifestreamy’ stuff: I really don’t care. Actually, I just deleted my facebook account. It is still the internet with training wheels – and I’m still not interested in plying around with Zombies. My social networks are Twitter and FriendFeed.
Meme13 launches: A way of reading the posts from the last 13 sites [...]


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7 April 2008 @ 10pm

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Monday Night Thoughts: Google Apps, Why We Blog, A-Lists, and a Hardware Upgrade

Lots of non-tech things keeping me busy today, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have something to say about the events of the day:
Google’s App Engine: I’m not a developer, but from what I see from the developer community, this is a big deal. If anything, it pushes the ideas of cloud computing further and [...]