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Picnik which has been a great web service for doing some quick photo editing has gone ad supported and now all of those features which have been reserved to the paying pro users are available to the general public! One of my favorite features is the Polaroid frame that they include in the editing [...]

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Last week I upgraded to “semi-fancy” permalinks with the help of Dean’s Permalink Migration Tool for Wordpress.  This tool in theory sends visitors to old web addresses to the new ones via a 301 redirect.
Thus far I have had good luck though Alex King’s 404 Notifier has been picking up some explainable and some odd [...]

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Ragamuffin, Tobias Buckell’s killer follow up to Crystal Rain is on the final ballot for the Nebula award! I really enjoyed Ragamuffin and found it built really well on the universe laid out in Crystal Rain. The fact that Pepper was back and kicking ass was another huge bonus. As John Scalzi [...]

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Scanning the local police reports is something which always brings me joy. The following report was in The Findlay Courier today and is too funny to withhold from you any longer.
Police responded to a Frazer Street residence Wednesday morning on a domestic complaint after a man became upset that his girlfriend kept waking [...]

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Engadget broke the story on HP’s rumoured UMPC given a very minimalist name, the UMPC 2133, which is supposed to be entering the market during Spring 08 for a yet to be determined low price.  I think this laptop looks gorgeous and if it comes in with even decent specs for ~$600-800 It will likely [...]

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I received the above error message last nite upon logging in, which complements the random beeps and USB issues my current laptop is experiencing.  Such a great, blunt and too the point message.  Who wouldn’t want to see this.
I’ll share the choices I currently have for my next laptop in a post later this week.

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Talk about a “Major” diss, last week Trixie put together a list of the Top 10 Cute boys in gaming journalism and left good ol’ Major Nelson off the list!  I don’t know if Larry Hyrb is technically a gaming journalist but he does manage to sneak into the shot above with Geoff Keighley.  I [...]

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In the continuing Bender Ball coverage here I wanted to share this video with you as a warning regarding ordering the Bender Ball.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylIpJhZsGI4

From the video description:
Very cheap simple Abdominal Exercise ball early AM TV infomercial. Call to buy is fully automated. The quantity question is ambiguous/confusing & you end up with two units. They dont [...]

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I just got a Samsung SC-D363 camera and I was bummed to find that Samsung used a non standard codec to record the video to the SD card!  This means in Windows XP you can open up a video file in Windows Media player and you will only get the audio portion of your family [...]

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In part of what may be an ongoing search for a new laptop I am trying to get some hands on time with an EEE PC and so far haven’t found any in a store to try.  So my next ploy is searching for a reader or random Googler who would want to meet up [...]

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