Archives for: April 2008
The Shape of Things to Come

An advantage to the truncated season of Lost due to the writer’s strike is that each of the remaining episodes will likely be filled with a fast moving plotline. Last night’s episode proved that assumption and then some. Locke’s faction of Losties finally got attacked by the mercenaries from Michael’s boat and Jack had to deal with the [...]

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The Internet loves Obama

While I have always found American politics to be incredibly tiresome and out of touch with my interests, the internet’s collective latching onto Barack Obama’s campaign fascinates me from a social networking standpoint. It’s blatantly apparent on community-based news sites such as Digg, carries over financially to benevolent sites like DonorsChoose and grows exponentially faster on social networks like [...]

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Liberty City Removed

Seven days from the launch of a game that will probably hurt the box office receipts of Iron Man, I’m keeping myself in check over the deluge of information concerning GTA IV. It’s extremely tough to keep myself in the dark about one of the most anticipated titles in this generation of gaming, but a fresh entrance into [...]

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Where does my moola go?

For money management, I’ve used a site called Yodlee in the past. Yodlee is tightly spun into the majority of the financial world and works as a central hub for my bills / accounts. When I need to go pay my mobile phone bill or check the balance of my student loan, I can type my password into Yodlee once and they will auto-log me into those accounts rather than having to remember several user names / passwords. Yodlee is extremely useful in that respect, but doesn’t offer a user friendly study of my finances or interface for that matter. This is where Mint comes in…

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Juno Rewrite

Hilarious re-write of Juno from Rod Hilton, writer at The Editing Room: Link

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I dig Digsby!

I started searching for an all encompassing instant messaging program a few weeks ago. For those that are unfamiliar with the idea, it’s essentially a program that controls all my instant message accounts (AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, etc.) as well as email functions. I had used Trillian years ago, but I knew there had to be [...]

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30 Rock

I also watched 30 Rock last night, but didn’t laugh once. I’m not sure if the show is losing its luster or not.

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