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Friday, December 14th, 2007
I’ve been feeling so abysmal the past week and a half, I’ve completely forgotten my anniversary: December 3rd marks the 13-year anniversary since I came out to myself. I was 18 years old, and it was just before winter break of my freshman year of college at Transylvania University. I ...
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Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Today and every December 1st marks World AIDS Day throughout the world. All of us are (or should be) aware of the epidemic that AIDS and HIV are not only in our own communities but in other nations and places around the world.
But World AIDS Day is more than awareness. All ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Each year at Thanksgiving I post this reminder of gratitude in whatever journal or blog I am using at the time. Each time I do, I read the list to see whether there’s anything I want to add, change, or delete. Only once have I made a change.
Several years ago, my ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Vote now! My friend Lex and his brother Joe Phillips (you might have heard of him) have put together a video entry into the Dashboard Confessional Viral Video contest. I think the video is simply amazing, and I hope you'll go to vote for it as well.
To vote, please visit the MySpace ...
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Special Act now if you need new eyeglasses. The good folks over at EyeBuyDirect are offering a 48-hour sale on their eyeglasses for Monday and Tuesday only.
Buy any pair of glasses (starting at $14.95! --- whoa!), including over 150 new styles, then select one of the 39 eligible frames for free.
But remember: ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
It came out last month that Internet service provider Comcast was rate-limiting the bandwidth availability of its customers who were using BitTorrent. Now, it appears, AT&T's SBC Yahoo! DSL is doing the same.
I am a AT&T customer (more by necessity than by choice), and after attempts to get the newest Fedora ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
When I first saw Keith Olbermann blast "Jorge" a couple of years ago for one thing or another, I was impressed and inspired beyond words. But now he's totally hit a new level of journalistic excellence. Keith Olbermann gives me hope for America. As one of the last true journalists (as ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Twitter grows old. It is the Web 2.0 equivalent of old money. Jaiku is where it's at now. Unfortunately, it's invite-only like so many socialnet betas these days, and those invites are more precious than World of Warcraft gold mined by 10-year-old Chinese farmers in 14-hour shifts.
So if you or someone ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Vote! The 2007 Weblog Awards are open for voting, and the other blog that I write for, The Apple Blog, is a finalist for Best Technology Blog. Please head on over and vote today! (And tomorrow and the next day...) ⌘
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
This video is definitely an OMGWTFcat, not a LOLcat. Is it real? Couldn't be. Could it? Is it? ⌘
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