During the last summer olympics, NBC seemed to think we'd be more interested in watching their biographical vignettes than the athletes' performances. It was the low point in a string of olympics that made me really wish they didn't have the exclusive U.S. broadcasting rights. And I really didn't like Bob Costas.

Based on this...
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When a store goes above and beyond the call of duty, I always feel like giving them a shout out.

Today, I finally got around to exchanging my birthday present from back in June (or was it a fathers day present? The two are so close--sometimes the same day--that I forget). My wife had gotten...
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Twitter has a widget that you can use to display your latest update in your blog sidebar or elsewhere on your website. But it's...well, not perfect. I found that it was bigger than necessary for the text it contained, and the empty space didn't exactly enhance the look of my blog.

So I wrote my...
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Magpie and CaRP are two popular RSS parser scripts, both written in PHP, but which is better? I did a quick comparison, and this is what I came up with. Yes, I am the creator of CaRP, so read carefully and decide for yourself whether you can trust me! I'll try to be as objective...
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Every once in a while, I hear about another "National Something-Or-Other Day" or "National This-Or-That Month", and it makes me wonder. Who decides that August 5 will be "National Underwear Day"? (I'm not kidding about that one, by the way!)

Unless there's some Department of National Days and Months that I've never heard about, anybody...
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I have 95 extra copies of a CD I created for a conference I attended recently, which I'm making available to the public. The contents include full versions of my scroller script (Tetra), exit hover ad script (ExPop) and viral mailing list mailer (List Mailer GT Pro), along with limited edition versions of my RSS...
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"Evolution is like a box of baboons, you never design what your gonna implement." That almost sounds like it could mean something, doesn't it?

I've got a script running on my blog named "Wisdom of the Drunken Sages" (it's one of mine). It takes the structure of a familiar sentence (like the Forrest Gump quote...
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Yesterday I started a new blog on a domain I'd been using mostly to redirect traffic to other sites. The domain name is "ToSeeMore.info". The blog directory is "about". It's on a subdomain named "click". So the URLs to the blog posts and categories end up looking like this:

http://click.ToSeeMore.info/about/how-i-got-319713-organic-google-clicks-in-a-month/

http://click.ToSeeMore.info/about/-/getting-web-traffic/

I called it "uber-optimized",...
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I saw an ad for Saturn cars tonight that said "Rethink MPG". It bragged that one of their cars got 32 MPG highway, and another got 30. Back in 1994, when my SL-1 was built, they got made cars that got 40 MPG highway.

Guys, any possibility you could un-rethink MPG?

It's 1:30 am, and I just came in from checking out Jupiter and four of its moons in my little telescope. It was even cooler than when I first looked at Saturn just after getting the telescope a few months ago.

The moment it appeared in the eyepiece, before even focusing, I immediately recognized what...
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