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Less than half an hour after I posted this item earlier today, I found that it was already scraped and republished in a splog. To prevent this in the future, I’ve installed the ©Feed plugin, which adds a copyright notice to each item in my RSS feeds that will appear in any scraped content saying [...]

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21 Ways to Shoot Better Photographs | 10e20 Blog
Composition tips
(tags: photography)

with comb & razor: Fela SHOUTS!!!
nice video clip & mp3 download
(tags: music)

Music Videos of Africa - Clips Africains
Huge collection of African music videos
(tags: music multimedia video)

BlueRope » Blog Archive » Source List View (Mail-like) controls
If you want to have add/remove/resize controls at the bottom of [...]

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Things I have learned during this campaign season (Via Daily Kos):

In a race that includes a former First Lady of the United States and a multimillionaire Republican senator rumored to share up to eight residences with his wife, the black guy from Chicago is unforgivably elitist.

Racism in America is caused primarily by black [...]

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I’ve written about this several times before, since I own both products. I keep giving VMware another chance because I really want to use it, but I keep going back to Parallels for several reasons.
The major reason I can’t use VMware is because it has problems with Visual Studio Team Server. I use VSTS for [...]

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These were the front page stories in today’s Sun-Sentinel:

Dancing with the stars

Miley Cyrus

the Dolphins’ personnel changes

None of which I care about in the least. The Dolphins’ hirings, firings, and trades was also the lead story on the evening news. I guess there’s nothing more important happening in the world. Nobody died in [...]

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With all of the concern about Obama’s association with Rev. Wright, almost nothing has been said about Rev. John Hagee’s endorsement of McCain.

Right-wing pastor John Hagee says vile, despicable things about patriotic Americans…the worst being that Catholics are part of a church that is a “great whore,” that “all Muslims have a mandate to kill [...]

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Today is the 5th birthday of the iTunes Music Store, which also means I’ve been living in this condo for exactly 5 years.
April 28, 2003 was a very hectic day for me as I sold my old condo, bought this one, and moved. I packed and moved everything from my old condo, went to one [...]

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Dean Allen writes about his experience of switching to a Nikon DSLR after using point & shoot cameras for a long time:
I feel like someone handed a slice of hot toast spread with cultured butter after a lifetime breakfasting on Skittles and government cheese.
I can definitely relate. Using a D40x changed the way I think [...]

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My FriendFeed cocoa classes are now fully functional except including media enclosures in posts. I ended up rewriting it to use NSXMLDocument rather than PSFeed, which doesn’t involve any more code and eliminates the dependence on PubSub.
Now that that’s done, I’m digging into the Pownce API. Pownce isn’t much more complemented, but it requires an [...]

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TypeRacer
An addictive time waster
(tags: game)

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I’ve upgraded this blog to WordPress 2.5.1, which adds several security fixes & performance improvements. This time I used WP Auto Upgrade, which was very quick but had one glitch. When it finished the update, it didn’t re-enable my plugins, so I had to re-enable them manually.

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I was sent an Artwizz SeeJacket to review at MacMegasite. I’ll probably write the review this weekend. So far it looks pretty nice, except it’s fairly thick at the top which makes it difficult to reach the power switch.

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Rands In Repose: Saving Seconds
The mouse, while incredibly useful as a casual means of interacting with a computer, is not a productivity tool, because when you use a mouse you sometimes miss and missing isn’t productive.
(tags: tips)

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Since I’m using FeedBurner for this blog’s feed, I’ve activated Photo Splicer, so my latest photos on Flickr will now appear in my feed.

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I’ve implemented posting in my Cocoa FriendFeed class, and I ended up rewriting the fetch methods to use a NSURLConnection rather than PubSub. I’m now using a temporary PSFeed object to parse the received data rather than maintaining PSFeed objects for all requested feeds. I could probably use a NSXMLDocument, but PSFeed seems cleaner.
Here’s [...]

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I’ve been playing with the FriendFeed API in Objective C, although I don’t have anything ready for public consumption yet.
Since the fetch methods basically work like RSS feeds, they can be handled easily using PubSub. Most of the code I had to write was to decode the entries returned into something more useful. The methods [...]

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Ten typographic mistakes everyone makes | Life, Tutorials | Receding Hairline
Ten mistakes that everyone makes, an explanation of why each is wrong, and details on how to fix them.
(tags: typography)

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Dwindling In Unbelief: The Passover Plot — God’s Intelligently Designed Mass Murder
Today is Passover, a religious festival celebrating the mass murder of every non-Jewish “firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast.” And the murderer is God himself.

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I haven’t done one of these for a while, but the dark clouds inspired me to make an HDR image.

I spent most of the weekend (when I wasn’t working around the house & garden) writing some Cocoa code for FriendFeed. So far I only support the features that don’t require authentication.

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I’ve never seen a caladium flower before, so I had to take a picture of it. I didn’t have my D40x with me, so I took this with my iPhone.

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