The wollaston car wash sign says 'happy birthday america' ... Today. Awesome.
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Tweets: July 2008 Archives
I can't believe how long that took. I mean, really. Link
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Do you think Red Sox GM Theo Epstein thinks Overstock.com's slogan "It's all about The O" is a reference to him? OK, back to Blue Manny Day.
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Artest says he's "still ghetto", won't change Link
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Thanks to everyone who already wished me a happy birthday. FYI, I am postponing No. 35 for a few more weeks. I apologize for any confusion.
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Random rant: The CDN / streaming provider that can de-mystify pricing issues associated with their product has much gain in the marketplace.
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In a Missing Manuals planning meeting. What book would you buy a Missing Manual for? Careers, Going Green, Longevity, Daycare, Bail Bonds?
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And to the AH who slashed our @BarakObama bumper sticker in Falmouth MA, thanks for CONFIRMING that we will be volunteering on Election Day.
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And to the AH who slashed our @BarakObama bumper sticker in Falmouth MA, thanks for conforming that we will be volunteering on Election Day.
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to my Facebook friends who also play Scrabulous ... here's the company your misery might love Link
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I just unfollowed @bostonupdate partly because it only follows 6 people. What a missed opportunity to keep tabs on your coverage area. Sigh.
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"McCain's answer to 'Yes, we can,' seems to be 'HEY YOU KIDS. GET THE HELL OFF MY LAWN!' Link
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haha @rcherny ... "I took a CSS book on vacation once. My wife has never let me live it down..."
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OK I'm bringing Website Optimization Link
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I just imagined a world where tv stations had set-compatibility issues like many sites have with browsers ... Then I laughed an evil laugh.
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After many recent reports claim commercially viable rappers are not trying to "Fight the Power" anymore, Nas represents! Link
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A funny email from the Obama campaign starts "As you may have heard, Barack has been in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia this week."
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My friend Mike: "These damn GUIs. If I was using command line I could go into my history and see what I just did." hehe
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@donford74 wow you just blew my mind. I never thought I could be an optimist and a pessimist at. the. same. time.
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@spampy I think many have had their followers list trimmed. Mine dropped, and I didn't even venture into that dangerous @wegmans territory!
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If I have the twitter fail whale as my desktop background, does that in and of itself make me a pessimist?
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Sending tornado alerts from Link
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Can someone please put something new where the old Ground Round is in Fresh Pond in Cambridge?
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I couldn't help but feel a sense of irony skipping over the advertisements while watching Mad Men on my DVR last night
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Just found vyew.com while to helping another Terp figure out next steps for an online math tutoring business. Impressive at first glance.
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If your Wordpress xml file is too big (< 8MB) to import, try removing all comments with<wp:comment_approved>spam</wp:comment ...
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My first trip to roxies in quincy ... Erin is strangely excited about this
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George W. Bush: "Wall Street got drunk" Link
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hehe @spampy ... dramatic tarsier Link
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This is a list of 699 (and counting) instances where John McCain gets a free pass Link
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My HuffPo account got created. Like a couple weeks after I hit submit. These are the mysteries of the Internet that continue to perplex me.
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If i had eaten a fortune cookie today i am sure the fortune would have had the letters p h and another p in it
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From Talking Points Memo Blog: It's also worth noting that the difference between Maliki and McCain's plan is 1200 months. Link
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Fun ESPYs show tonight, but the lack of A-Rod jokes seemed a bit suspect considering Justin Timberlake's friendship with Madonna. Hrmmmm....
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I used to think Molly Shannon's Superstar character was too over the top to exist in real life. But that was before yesterday. Oh. My. God.
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bwahahah ... Link
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As summer dates go it is tough to beat the T boat into town for dinner in the north end and a nightcap on the ride home.
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Does anyone know if former weekly dig editor Joe Keohane is on twitter? @baratunde ... anyone? I feel a MeatNormous need to read his tweets.
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My boss just said "I'm not in the mood to be rude today." Me likey.
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Sitting on opposite sides of my computer are Javascript: The Missing Manual Link
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Congrats to Erin on her new gig ... Hoping she was kidding about thinking of new nicknames for me during her two week break between jobs.
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OK so if they add extra players to the All-Star Game lineup just in case of extra innings, shouldn't it then be called the Mostly-Star Game?
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McCain explained skipping NAACP last year as 'a bit distracted' by GOP campaign ... So it's now ok for him to pander to black people? B.S.
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CTRL+F isn't too helpful when your spelling is off. Or if you assume the author of the file knew how to spell when they wrote it.
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It's tough to top an unsolicited call from a slightly illiterate recruiter who gets your name wrong for quality mid-afternoon entertainment
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@robpegoraro if this is for a story, you should check with @tempo, a.k.a Thor from Link
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My random recollections from O'Reilly's Foo Camp and/or #foocamp Link
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Ten years with my wife and I just discovered a new facial expression from her: The "so you think you're funny with your status, huh?" look.
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My wife thinks Josh Groban's jeans are too close of a blue to his All-Star Game shirt. I have no such concerns.
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"appearance of conflict of interest is too damaging to ESPN to let logistics trump news credibility in event programming." Link
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Seriously, if you were a recruiter and you saw this Link
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@emileifrem I echo your foo camp sentiments. Only regret is not adding chadrem to my badge.
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Anyone and everyone ... feel free to ask me anything about foo camp ... The exercise would be a fun way for me to remember a great time
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Want a ride from foo camp to san fran? Meet me at the big tarsier @ 4
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Thanks to all who came to our cms foo camp session ... Even the movable type haters :)
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Wow, Stephan Spencer and Vanessa Fox confirmed for me that I in fact did all I could do for SEO on the susanmernit.com blogger migration.
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Sitting in a "fix your Wikipedia page party" with some cool folks at foo camp ... Wikipedia is starting to dominate my life these days
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at foo camp Robert Stevens time saver: If biz dev person wants to talk, they must donate $500 to his charity for a 15 minute phone call.
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at foo camp, @merci said there's a difference between listening to your users and letting them know you're listening to them
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Information is not the problem. Process is the problem. People don't know how to learn.- Scott Gray Dir. O'Reilly School of tech @ foo camp
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"Any time you have the beginning of a massive social change, you're going to have clampdowns" ... Jimmy Wales at foo camp
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at foo camp I'm feeling similarities btwn the move to the web for journalism and open education platforms. Tools and user experience are key
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Fyi foo campers, a small off-white child's sweater was found and is at the registration desk
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Apture.com demo in foo camp future of news session brought order and awe to a room that was getting pretty animated and argumentative. Whew!
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At Foo Camp, the elephant in the room is an actual literal elephant in a room. Interesting ...
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Room filling up for Foo Camp news session I'm chipping in on. Hope the video loads over the wireless in time ;-)
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Counting down to a future of news session. Revising in my brain what I think I want to try to contribute. You know, kinda like breaking news
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Chatting with the author of puppet and the founder of geek squad at foo camp ... So surreal
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Leading a foo camp session beyond content: managing expectatrions with a new cms ... and one on online journalism
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Foo camp is feeling like field of dreams ... Except that it's geeks instead of ball players ... And they're not dead ... And not in Iowa
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Hmm i apparently have the largest tent at foo camp ... Oy
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Great time mingling w/ O'Reilly folks in Sebastopol including Laura, Laura, Laura, Linda, Laurel, Mark, and Marsee. Now to mingle at Foocamp
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Just saw the new Link
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A little ditty from a pre-Foo Camp virtual conversation about newspaper companies and the web. Link
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My new standard answer to "have a safe flight" is "I'll do what I can" ... now, onward to Foo Camp etc. for 8 days of stuff crammed into 4.
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Is it too early to start making new year's resolutions for 2009? I mean we're in the second half of 2008 now, right?
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@spampy put me down for $10 for that kid who got shot playing kickball last week. Lemme know how else I can help.
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wow, if i wasn't allowed to type " ;-) " a lot of people would be annoyed after taking what I IM the wrong way
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WaPo's Security Fix blog reader finds data breach with LimeWire that affected Supreme Court justice Breyer, among others Link
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Looks like I'll be checking this Fios map frequently Link
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Looking for some good in the world? Try asking someone to help you gather photos of a baseball player to make a six-year-old happy.
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Wow, how does Wilbon not even mention Sharapova? I mean, she was the ONLY female player in TV ads during the ladies final Link
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Putting finishing touches on the Missing Manuals monthly newsletter. Are you a subscriber? Link
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Re-watching the fifth set of the Federer Nadal Wimbledon final ... this time in HD. I'm actually anxious watching it.
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I feel your pain @fling ... if pain is an appropriate description Link
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HGTV has got nothing on my wife. Came home to an Extreme Home Office Makeover - and I love it, despite the guilt I feel for making that mess
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Foo Camp seems much, much closer after getting the 8-person tent I'm borrowing (that fits into the cooler I'm bringing) Thanks Catherine N.!
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Maybe the environmentalists and the free m n m ice cream guy at the foggy bottom station could join forces ... And give green mnm ice cream
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Saying bye to your folks for an undetermined amount of time is never easy - but getting a seat on the train and a connection helps a little.
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My new explanation of Twitter to newbies (from Princess Bride): Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. Thanks Inigo Montoya!
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@damienstolarz "I thought that fear mongering was the new leadership. Just kidding." Awesome.
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Having fun and frustrations trying to transfer files from my Samsung u740 to my Mac running Tiger ... via Bluetooth. Any suggestions welcome
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Wow how great would it be if everyone's voices from the 80s held up as well as howard jones? This is a really good show.
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That last quote is followed by a Big Rock n Roll ending ... Three times :)
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Thats the nice thing about electronic music it doesnt have big rock n roll endings and i like that ... Howard jones at state theatre
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Going to see an electric Howard Jones show tonight!! Thanks Dana Eve!! Link
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Thriller is now playing over the first fight scene of karate kid ... Brilliant
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Take these broken wings is playing in chi cha lounge whilst top gun is on ... They shoulda used that song instead of take my breath away
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OMG who do I pull for? Venus or Serena? I guess I just hope for 9-7 in the third.
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Agent Zero: I want to have a parade that goes right past the White House. Me and Barack Obama. How cool would that be? Link
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AP: Our bad. Leona more evil than originally reported Link
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Just sent in yet another request to be notified by Verizon when FiOS will finally come to the classy part of Quincy known as Wollaston.
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I am having an awesome conversation about converting docbook xml to mediawiki xml with wikipedia: the missing manual's author John Broughton
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If you get TV through the air, on an analog set ... and you're on Twitter ... I'd really like to meet you.
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From Bank of America's web site "Online Banking in Spanish is here" ... Pero no es en Español. ¿Por qué?
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retweeting @anildash Gotta give props to the 13-year-old in the Mars Blackmon t-shirt. He was clearly raised right.
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You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you just might find ... Oh crap, why was I looking for that anyway?
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on Makezine.com - 3D failwhale Link
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good thing this is a ProJo ripoff and not AP, and that it's Boston.com and not a random, lawyerless blogger Link
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