I think I got stung by a wasp yesterday. You're probably thinking that's not how people usually describe the experience, so let me explain.

My brother in law brought some fireworks over yesterday including a few of the kind that shoot out parachutes. The two big ones were amazing -- there's wasn't that much of...
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Ever wonder just how much of a problem spam email is? To give you an idea, here in no particular order are the 1,231 IP addresses from which my email server received at least 3 messages sent to invalid addresses within a single 5 minute period over the course of 4 hours.

That sentence may...
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A few days ago, John Reese posted the following on Twitter:

"i used to think libertarians were a bit wacky but now I'm really starting to see that a lot of what they believe makes sense / 'grant me the freedom to do whatever I want unless it infringes on the freedom of others.' it's...
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AWeber is a great service, and for the most part I'm very happy with it. But it does have a few irritating problems. Here's my list of the worst. Have any pet peeves that aren't listed? Share them in the comments.

Just Plain Wrong

There's one feature where my complaint isn't just a matter of...
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I'm running a one week only special on CaRP Evolution and YesTube to raise money to pay our greedy hospital. I'll get to the deal in just a minute, but first a little background.

A few months ago, my baby boy, Lincoln, got RSV. He spent 3 days in the hospital just in case things...
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My experience with taxes this year was mixed (ain't it always!)

The bad: The IRS sent my tax return back to me asking me to attach a W-2. All of my income is from self-employment (through my LLC), so I have no W-2 wages. My tax return said "0" on the W-2 line. My only...
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Every once in a while, I remember this movie I saw on TV a few times when I was a kid, but I can never remember what it was called. LazyWeb, help! And while you're at it, I've got another one.

Here's what I can remember about the first movie:

* The main characters ar...
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I've just posted a new page on Chordata called "Net Pulse News". It pulls the hottest search trends from Google Trends, and displays news, blog and video search results based on those keywords.

Google Trends identifies the hottest trends in search -- the keywords that massive numbers of people have recently started searching for. When...
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For years, I've occasionally thought about buying a telescope. A year or so ago, I did some reasearch online and chose $350 reflector, but didn't buy. Last week, I picked up my first telescope at a local auction for $14. It's one that used to sell at Walmart for $99, so it's obviously not fo...
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I've just released a new revision of the CaRP/WP WordPress plugin that integrates my RSS to HTML converter with WordPress. The new version adds support for the YouTube plugin that I just released for CaRP. Using it, you can display dynamically updating YouTube videos in your WordPress posts and pages.

The videos can be selected...
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