Category: Off-topic
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A Little Extra Busy Today
Reading Time: < 1 minute My wife and I had some things to do this afternoon that pulled me away from watching Steve Jobs’ Keynote at WWDC 2008 where the iPhone 3G was announced. I plan to be back tomorrow with some thoughts on the new iPhone and Apple’s related service offerings.
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Hockey Night in Canada Theme May Not Be Used by The CBC Next Season
Reading Time: < 1 minute Back in April, I wrote How to Create iPhone Ringtones from TV Show Soundtracks Using Audio Hijack Pro and GarageBand ’08 and created a The Hockey Night in Canada Theme ringtone for my iPhone as an example. For those U.S.-based hockey junkies in our readership who haven’t heard, several Canadian…
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What’s It Like to Officiate the Stanley Cup Finals?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Many of you know that I officiate college ice hockey, so you probably won’t be surprised at my interest in a few video clips taken from interviews with four NHL Officials selected to officiate the Stanley Cup Finals: These interviews were made available by ESPN on a website called ESPN…
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Happy Birthday Jimmy!
Reading Time: < 1 minute Happy Birthday Jimmy!: My son Jimmy Aiello turns the big “2” today. Here’s a photo of the two of us when we were riding the new carousel at Sesame Place a couple of weeks ago. [ Photo: Kathleen Aiello via Flickr ] I’ve been insanely busy this week, but I wanted to…
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Is This a Music Video or an Ad for Leopard?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s a music video that’s making the rounds of web sites I read: The movement away from Windows and toward the Mac is still in it’s early stages, so lots of people haven’t seen all of these Mac applications before. My question is, does it make more sense as a…
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Backlog at Dealers Indicates That We’ll See a Lot More Smarts on the Road Soon
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s a follow up to last week’s article about Smart cars on the road in the Philadelphia area. The Boston Globe published an article on Tuesday that indicates that many owners of SUVs and pickup trucks in New England are trying to sell their vehicles because of fuel costs. Near…
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Smart ForTwos on the Road in the Philadelphia Area
Reading Time: 2 minutes Yesterday on my way to the Philadelphia Airport to drop off Kathleen, Jimmy, and a couple of other relatives for a weekend trip to Atlanta, I saw two Smart ForTwos on the road in less than an hour. Smart ForTwos like this one that was seen by fleur-design in Louisville, KY…
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Seeking Followers on Twitter Who Are Real Human Beings
Reading Time: < 1 minute I’ve noticed that the first stage of attracting followers on Twitter (beyond your actual friends) is that accounts that act like bots start to follow you. Not to name any names, but one of my followers is just reporting random things from Google News, another one is just throwing out…
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What If Google Reader Supported Regular Expressions?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Merlin Mann came up with a great idea a few minutes ago on Twitter: Craving some kind of existential regular expression that could give me one week without hearing a single syllable about the primary race. I’d love it if this concept was embraced by Google Reader. Imagine if you…