I’m now into day 2 of my account over at 1&1 being down. Their estimates for recovery keep going up, from 4 hours, to 12 hours and today they say it will be two more days. Luckily, I don’t trust my main site, www.leonatkinson.com, to them. I leonatkinson.com with he.net and I might have had [...]
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Google Notebook Going Away
January 16th, 2009
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Google announced that they will stop developing Notebook, a tool I use every day. This is downside to using free-as-in-beer tools. They aren’t planning to shut off the service (right away). And it’s easy enough to export the content. There are alternatives that might take me a while to evaluate. Here’s what I’ve found so [...]
Cool Threads From Livity
December 23rd, 2008
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It’s probably too late to shop for gifts, but if you get cash for Christmas, head over to Livity Outernational and check out their cool clothes. My childhood friend, Isaac, runs the business and sent me some samples. The hoodie he sent me is now my favorite casual jacket. It’s super heavyweight and really fought [...]
Tips For Being the Master of Facebook
November 22nd, 2008
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Lately I’ve been having too much fun on Facebook. This site was developed for college kids and then subsequently opened up to everyone…which really just meant geeky early-adopters. But something magical happened for me in the past few months. Suddenly friends from high school started arriving. Then my 20th high school reunion happened and I [...]
How I’m Voting and Why
October 26th, 2008
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I thought it might be interesting to run down how I plan to vote next month. Most of the time, it’s pretty easy to decide which way to vote. I think the government, local through federal, ought to keep away from providing welfare and entertainment and stick to law enforcement and defense. The candidates in [...]
