coComment and an offical Firefox extension

Brand new Firefox Extension just released over at coComment. All of you are still using coComment, RIGHT??? If it was too much trouble to use the bookmarklet and you started slacking off now if you use Firefox (you are using Firefox, right?) then you can just install the official coComment Firefox extension and [...]

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SCI FI Announces Caprica

SCI FI Channel announced the development of Caprica, a spinoff prequel of its hit Battlestar Galactica, in presentations to advertisers in New York on April 26. Caprica would come from Galactica executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, writer Remi Aubuchon (24) and NBC Universal Television Studio.
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10 of my life’s simple pleasures

I saw this on David Golding’s weblog and liked it so much that I could not wait to be tagged.
1. Hugging my wife and bonus children.2. Walking in a Warm Rain downpour.3. Coming home and being greeted, at the door, by my Australian Shepherd, [...]

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Freedom Toaster

Wow, this is a great project that I need to add to my list of worthy causes, FreedomToaster.org
Billions of people live with restrictive telecommunications environments that make it difficult and costly to access digital products such as free software and educational content. The Freedom Toaster project was started in 2004 by the Shuttleworth Foundation as [...]

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Craftsmanship in Software development

I found a wonderful In Progress book and read the following section that really struck a chord within me.
Craftsmen could be considered experts at learning, identifying an area of ignorance and working to reduce it. Like bare patches in a garden, ignorance can be reduced by cultivating your seeds of knowledge. Water your [...]

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Your Name in Japanese

This is a fun time waster, Find out what your name looks like in Japanese.

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Quote of the Day – QOTD

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Confucius

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Bike Hippies

This looks like a very fun and informative blog to read.
Bike Hippies
Bike HippiesTwo bike hippies cycling around Europe in search of a nice place to live.

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The Daily Laugh Out Loud

I started reading this article and actually did what my title says, so I had to share it with my 5 dedicated readers.
Most companies have it all wrong. They don't have to motivate their employees. They have to stop demotivating them.
The great majority of employees are quite enthusiastic when they start a [...]

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Word of the Week = amphigory

amphigory (AM-fi-gor-ee) noun, also amphigouri
A nonsensical piece of writing, usually in verse form, typically composed as a parody.
[From French amphigouri, of obscure origin.]
Dewayne's blog is a great example of amphigory.

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What Ruby GEMS are installed on my computer?

Question: So I have been playing with learning Ruby and Rails and I just installed Instiki a cool Ruby Wiki on my computer. The Instiki docs are talking about a GEM called Red Cloth and I am trying to figure out if it is installed on the machine I am working on.
Answer: From [...]

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American Aristocracy

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to
prevent its ascendancy. -Thomas Jefferson, third US president, architect and author (1743-1826)

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Surfing Excitement

I am working away at a Ruby on Rails Tutorial this morning and I hit an error for Time.now because I am attempting (silly me) to use MS SQL Server on Windows XP instead of MySQL. I hop onto Google and search for Time.Now which leads me to Programming Ruby at the bottom [...]

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Where is My Government, “of, by and for the people”?

What can we do to get our government out of the hands of corporations and special interests?
Via Bill Moyers A Culture of Corruption
Money is choking our democracy to death. Our elections are bought out from under us and our public officials are doing the bidding of mercenaries. So powerful is the hold of wealth on [...]

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Testing Writely for blog posting

Trying out Writely as a blog posting tool per Peteremcc’s suggestion in my comments .
Update: Excellent, this post was from home next up a test from work tomorrow. And now for the real test, a post from work.

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Backup WordPress blog posts with Ruby

A very cool Ruby Hack to Download WordPress Posts.

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