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2004 September

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My Pet Jawa Featured on MSNBC (Kinda)

The ever observant Dr. Rusty Shackleford was recently featured on MSNBC in an unusual way. An image Dr. Rusty nabbed from a hacked Al Qaeda terrorist website was featured in a story on MSNBC. You can read Dr. Rusty’s story about his success on your own.
This brings up an interesting point about bloggers […]

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T-Mobile Sidekick II Review

This is a comprehensive review of the Sidekick II. I wanted to push this review out a lot quicker but I figured that a thorough testing and experience with the Sidekick II was necessary. After spending a year with the original color Sidekick I think I’ll be able to write up a very good review.
On […]

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Five Questions for Bloggers

Karol over at Spot On has five questions for bloggers:
1. Why did you start a blog?
I started Our Life to communicate with my family and friends. It quickly turned into a sounding board for issues that indirectly affect me and my family including Politics and the Global War on Terrorism.
chrisshort.net was started out of […]

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Letters: A Thing of the Past?

I was watching morning cartoons with Aubree this morning and for whatever reason a cartoon character was sad because his grandfather left to “go back to the farm”. To cheer the sad little cartoon character up a mail carrier suggested that he write a letter to his grandfather.
This made me think about when the […]

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Microsoft Opens Up

Microsoft announced on Sunday that it would share Microsoft Office 2003 source code as part of the Microsoft Government Security Program. The program is designed to make governments feel more comfortable about Microsoft’s security practices. The source code for Office 2003 is going to be shared with the governments of more than 30 […]

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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 - The Problem with Filters

Last night I decided to walk away from Microsoft Outlook roots and move over to Mozilla Thunderbird to handle my e-mail. I don’t use Internet Explorer anymore so why use Outlook.
I like Mozilla Thunderbird. It’s simple and to the point. However, I have one problem with it.
I have a lot of e-mail […]

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XP SP2 Slows You Down

slashdot is covering a story from MobilePC:
News outlets have been getting carried away in the flood of stories about Microsoft’s release of Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP, but no one has addressed the issue of performance with the new update. Well, we happen to have a few notebooks lying around the office, so […]

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GAIM 1.0 Is Out

The best instant messenger ever turned 1.0 last night.
GAIM combines most popular instant messengers into one program. I’ve been using it for years and it’s truly awesome.
Download version 1.0 when you get a chance and tell me what you think.

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Tampa Bay Blogger Fest - First Meeting is Today

Today is the day of the first meeting of the Tampa Bay Blogger Fest.
A group of bloggers from the Tampa Bay area will be getting together at Splitsville down in Channelside around 1830 today.
Scott Serewicz and I intend to go and at the very least eat something and have a few drinks.

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SlapYoFaceOff on Yahoo! Picks

SlapYoFaceOff received a huge influx of traffic yesterday from Yahoo! After the smallest bit of research (reviewing log files) I noticed that SlapYoFaceOff was featured on Yahoo! Picks on 15 Sep 2004.
Brian and I are quite happy about this and welcome everyone on the face of the planet to a good laugh over at […]