Monthly Archives: June 2009

ShortenURL Application

I just whipped up a new Windows application to allow a user to shorten a URL without having to go to a shortening service’s website.  This was something that annoyed me, because I do not like to have a ton … Continue reading

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Can You Be a Thought Leader Without a Blog?

First off look at blogging for what it is, at it’s deepest core, it’s writing. It’s conveying ideas using words. Before the internet this was done on paper, before that stone. People who have been thinkers always wrote down their thoughts and captured them using whatever medium was available to them at the time. In some cases that was just telling a person, who then told another person, who then to..you get the idea. Continue reading

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State of Wireless in Linux Distros

There in lies the problem. Wireless is now an important part of computing. While my main concern is my desktop, none of the CDs I tried had my wireless working without major hoops on my work provided laptop either (Dell Latitude D830). And wireless is pretty much standard on laptops these days. Wireless has to work and it has to be painless. Continue reading

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links for 2009-06-26

How to: Jailbreak/Unlock iPhone 3.0 – Windows PC redsn0w Edition | The iPhone Blog (tags: iphone jailbreak) Let's make the web faster – Google Code (tags: google optimization programming tutorial web performance)

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Will Crowdsourcing News Online Kill The Newspapers?

So if I can subscribe to the RSS feeds of these aggregaters main pages, I can essentially only see news items that a large number of people deem important. I’ve cut out the newspaper, CNN, BBC, almost completely (one would assume that links to these things would pop up on these aggregaters). This means that I get real news and avoid the fluff. Continue reading

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links for 2009-06-23

Video: Implementing Model View Presenter Using ASP.NET: ASP Alliance (tags: .net video)

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