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What I Want to Be Doing
If it was up to me, right now, I’d be selling off everything that didn’t fit in a backpack and travelling. I would go across the country, into the USA, and maybe even overseas. I would attend various inexpensive conferences like Podcamps, WordCamps, and the like. I’d work from WiFi at youth hostels, or via…
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User Activity Article
Increase Your User Activity with Points, Badges and Status via Six Revisions Game mechanics is a piece of the website engagement puzzle, providing an incentive to become an active participant when there is no direct, tangible benefit for doing so. Interesting article that I keep reading over and over.
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Xbox 360 Slim
The new Xbox 360 announced today at E3 2010 looks amazing. Smaller form factor, nice lines, shiny black finish and that’s just on the outside. Inside it sports a 250GB hard drive, built-in WiFi, and a new CPU/GPU combo on a 45nm architecture (hopefully meaning that there will no longer be red rings of death).…
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Afghanistan
My Uncle is due back soon and recently sent my family an e-mail talking about his exit. My best friend just recently went over to Afghanistan. I sometimes wish I was a civilian contractor over there, laying networking cable, making some great money, and seeing what little of the area that I’d be permitted to…
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Burnt Out
I haven’t had a real vacation in over five years now, and I am definitely feeling the burn out, but on the flip side, I sometimes wish I could cash in my potential vacation for more money. I really don’t understand how I got myself into this situation. I would really love to take some…
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Things I Hate Doing
There are only a few things that I really hate doing, and here’s the ones I can think of off the top of my head: Washing Dishes – I have no problem putting away dishes, but I hate washing them by hand. Driving – I’ve previously discussed this, see Driving and Green Ideals. Laundry at…
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Protected: Why Iām Not More Successful
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Ultimate Sci-fi Tech List
I ran into this discussion on Reddit: Your ultimate Sci Fi tech list and felt that I just had to work on a list here for the fun of it. First off, I want to say that the originator of the topic definitely is of the same mind as me, so there will definitely be…
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The New Battle of the Sexes
I don’t know what I think about male or female superiority, their roles at home and at work, and all of the things that go along with the battle of the sexes, but I do think the following articles are a very interesting read. The End of Men In Sweden, the Men Can Have It…