Do you use the @mentions feature in your status updates? If you type @ and immediately start typing a name, Facebook will suggest friends. Click on one and the name is inserted as a link. The friend will be notified and more likely to notice. Until now, this only worked in your own status [...]
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Are you ready to swim?
April 10th, 2010
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“The truth hits everyone like a million atom bombs, and I can’t understand how everybody can be so calm. Time is running out and we all just sit around. So leave your message at the beep, ’cause I am leaving town.” –Leave a Message, Get Dead Yesterday was Tax Freedom Day, although here in California [...]
Rollback of Welfare Not the Only Way Out
April 1st, 2010
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In today’s TIA Daily, Robert Tracinski mentioned the Washington Posts’s Robert Samuelson’s continual apoplexy over the U.S. governments reckless course towards insolvency, and he concluded, “The bills are coming due for the welfare state, and the result is that we are entering a period of permanent fiscal crisis—a crisis that can only be solved if [...]
Canon MP620 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
November 4th, 2009
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Earlier this year I got a cheap Canon MP620 all-in-one printer, which works great with Windows and works fine for Ubuntu. Canon released drivers as .deb files for the MP610 which work with cups. I remember sweating it out a bit because the printer does not work unless you track down a few pieces that [...]
No More Bailouts: Appearance with a Super Genius
February 7th, 2009
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John Villarreal captured me on his YouTube show. The topic is the “Porkulus” bill going through the senate right now.
