From the monthly archives:

May 2007

I was just signing up for a Weather Underground account to deal with my compulsion to know how much it has rained and when it will rain again (gotta keep that lawn green!). Wunderground’s privacy policy had a link to the Network Advertising Initiative, where I opted out from several online advertisers at once. [...]

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Listen up,
Mint.com is now the official domain of Mint Free Personal Finance Software and the Mint guys are throwing a Comment Party to celebrate this domain acquisition. Leave a comment about what mint means to you and you could win 20 lbs. of mint.
I entered my comment and while I would like to win [...]

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“Good Lord, if someone had told me when I graduated from college that someday I would be a text monkey dependent on a search engine’s approval, I would have been stunned.” (I graduated from college before Al Gore invented the Internet)
–Me, in an email conversation with a coworker at Suite101, where I write about [...]

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I received an invite to LinkedIn a couple of weeks ago, and gladly snapped it up. I still need to take some time to finesse my profile and learn how to use LinkedIn effectively, but I found some nifty features this afternoon while taking a few minutes to putter around with it. And [...]

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I canceled Netflix. The DVDs I was getting were damaged where parts of movies would be skipped over. I know how to clean a DVD, and cleaning didn’t help. I missed a big chunk of “The Lake House” and this weekend, my daughter and I went without seeing the ending of “Barnyard”. [...]

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Gretchen at The Happiness Project reflects on the question, “would I speak to my child the same way if I had an audience?“. Her short essay really made me think.

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