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  • Tons of Thoughts…no posts

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    Blogging is hard. Anytime I’m inspired to blog I’m not at my computer, which is discouraging. There are a lot of things I’m thinking of lately, a lot of things I want to share. But I never have the time to sit and do that. So, I’m gonna start jotting things in my journal that…

  • Gevangelist

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    Today, Google released the Themes feature to Gmail. While my Gmail account was not in the first batch of releases, as I learned from Tim this morning to my shegrin, I still love this sweet feature. I am a huge fan of Google, for several reasons. My main reason for being such a fan is…

  • Autonomous Loneliness

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    We live in a very exciting technological time. Ten years ago, the internet looked a lot different than it does now, almost everyone has a smart phone, and I don’t know if anyone had any clue how many different ways there would be to communicate. “I don’t know how many things about “me” are actually…

  • A few ideas for Netflix…pro bono

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    I’m always going on and on to my wife about how a company could be more effective at a, b and c. Probably too much. Anyway, since this is my blog where I share my thoughts, here are a few things I’d like to see netflix do with digital distribution. Create a viable tv/movie viewing…

  • 5 things I’d Like to see the iPhone Do

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    1. Wirelessly synch with my computer Why would that be so difficult? Zune does it. The Things app for the iPhone even does it, but the iPhone doesn’t natively do that? I just don’t understand why not. 2. Update my podcasts automatically Why not? 3. Pair to a bluetooth keyboard As much as I like…

  • All in Favor of Daylight Saving Time…

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    Get up an hour earlier. I mean really. I don’t care if it’s a little darker in the morning, it means my daughter will sleep longer. She went from normally getting up at around 7:30-8am, to now 6:30-7am. That’s a big difference in my body clock. As soon as I get home from work now…

  • Hey Xbox, how about a helpful feature?

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    Every year Xbox announces new features to the dashboard, and each year, there are several that are fairly useless. So this year they announced Project Natal (google it, I don’t feel like making a link) and Social Media integration. Project Natal, a motion sensing technology, is pretty cool. But social media on the Xbox? Really?…

  • What gets buried under the King of Pop?

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    I thought this someecards.com card summed it up nicely. This week we’ve had the following news items overshadowed by the king of pop’s death. Fights break out between two ethnic groups in China North Korea launches 4 short-range missiles in ‘provocative’ test Honduras Stages a Coup? Ok. I’m done looking up new stories…there’s something else…

  • You’ve gotta be kidding me…

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    I have a digital TV tuner box, but the problem with the DTV signal is that if it’s unclear, you can’t watch TV, and since my antenna is REALLY crappy, I sometimes watch TV in analog mode. Well, our local news station 13 really wants to encourage people to make the switch. The picture below…

  • If you believe in Freedom

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    For anyone who stumbled here and doesn’t know me, let me say right now that I am a Christian. I believe that Jesus’ teachings and the life he modeled for us are the key to the salvation of the world in every sense. I’m more of a conservative than a moderate, I didn’t vote for…