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Archive for October, 2004

Wired News: Dems, GOP: Who’s Got the Brains? I usually like wired.com as a news source, but do the brains of ten republicans and ten democrats really provide a good focus group to determine how someone from a political party is “wired?” Craziness, I tell you craziness.

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Hail to the Chiefs

Monday, October 25th, 2004

Only my team could have such a huge victory and still screw me over I had Trent Green starting QB in my fantasy league… and they set an NFL record for RUSHING touchdowns without a single passing TD for the game! If just two of those were in the air, I would’ve won my game… [...]

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Curse Microsoft Internet Explorer

Saturday, October 23rd, 2004

I just found out… finally… that the banner ad describing civilian deaths was not working properly in Internet Explorer on PC. So, my apologies go out to all of you who have had to labor through it… or just abandoned my posts all together. I was wondering why the only person posting comments ever was [...]

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RSS Feeds

Friday, October 22nd, 2004

I’ve stepped into the world of RSS now, and I love it. Time to syndicate my own blog, here you go for all of you RSS’ers our there: http://www.alanhartung.com/theblog/xml-rss2.php And, I want to share after a few days of using Sage, which I posted about previously, I am convinced I should use NetNewsWire Lite even [...]

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Wired News: Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

Wired News: Inventor Rejoices as TVs Go Dark Wow. That’s all I have to say. I also detest the intrusion of advertising in the craziest of places, but this… this has to be treading the line of legality. Don’t you think?

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mozdev.org – sage: index

Wednesday, October 20th, 2004

mozdev.org – sage: index You should be using FireFox any way, so… If you are on a Mac and using FireFox, you might be interested in this RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension. I’ve been using NetNewsWire Lite, but I’ve been unhappy that I have to use Safari with it. I’ll probably use both for [...]

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They say it’s your birthday…

Tuesday, October 19th, 2004

It’s my birthday, too, yeah!

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Googlet

Monday, October 18th, 2004

Googlet Mac OS X users should enjoy this little piece of free software. Search many different engines without first opening up a browser to go to your favorite search engine’s page.

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RENOVARE – Readings – Perspective [October 2004] Richard Foster gives a few insights to assist Christians for the upcoming election. Refreshingly, he doesn’t say who to vote for, he just provides a few principles to guide us. And, astonishingly, the points are so straightforward and honest that I truly feel it doesn’t lend towards either [...]

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Nader factor still looms

Saturday, October 16th, 2004

Yesterday, I saw a headline that read, “Nader factor still looms.” After I promised myself I would avoid any more political posts… this just pissed me off too bad. I’ll say this very clearly: A vote for Ralph Nader is not a vote for George W. Bush. It’s a vote for Ralph Nader. A vote [...]

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