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I'm Michael Koby, and I love technology. I'm also a programmer, currently doing Ruby on Rails development for a small Houston startup. Here I talk about technology, programming, politics, movies, music, and anything else I feel I need to talk about. If you would like to know more, you can check out the About page.Popular Series
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
iTunes/iPod Tips & Tricks: Other Cool Options
Last week, we went over some easy to configure options that allows you greater control over your tracks in iTunes. We learned about gapless albums and remembering playback positions for audiobooks. This week, we are going to look at Sorting options and lyrics. You might be wondering why lyrics are a cool option, we will get into that a little later. Continue reading
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New To Wine? 9 Videos That Teach You The Basics Some previous episodes of Wine Library TV have aimed to help beginners (and even more experienced wine drinkers) better understand specific topics from the vast wine world. Below, we’ve unearthed … Continue reading
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New Music Tuesdays 2007-08-28
This week, we have got some hot new albums coming out. Lets dive right in… 1) Afterwords by Collective Soul – If Youth was a sign of things to come, then bring it on. Collective Soul seems to continue their … Continue reading
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MozBackup – Backup tool for Firefox and Thunderbird (tags: application firefox mozilla tools freeware) In Pursuit of Paperless Personal Finance ? Get Rich Slowly (tags: finance money lifehacks) Bsams.net Everything you need….and a little you don’t – Front Page – … Continue reading
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Al Gore, Hypocrite
Recently I have had several discussions about Al Gore, his movie “An Inconveniant Truth”, and the issue of global warming in general. While I will not go into extreme detail on my opinions, simply pointing out that that one should look up Global Cooling and see how long that was being talked about before global warming, I do want to bring up something that was brought to my attention. I received the following in a email and it was verified via Snopes.com to be true. Continue reading
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Office Politics & Employee Relations
By the end of the day Friday I will have left my current employer and will have begun working for another company. I am leaving the steady world of real estate technology for the consulting world. Thanks to a good friend of mine I will now be allowed to play with other technologies, learn Business Intelligence (that new buzz word that’s going around), and improve my programming skills.
To say it is not a sad thing that I am leaving my current employer is an understatement. I have spent the last better part of 7 years (minus a forced 9 month sabbatical) of my professional career where I am at. That means something to me. However, I am not doing what I want to do and the pay is not as good as it could be. And there in lies the problem. Continue reading →