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gordon.dewis.ca | Bounty offered for a location-based profile manager for the BlackBerry Curve
Democratic convention: A stage and a performance fit for a president | World news | The Guardian - view from abroad.
Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 9.0 Release Notes - some really great stuff in here, Michael has a good write-up as well.
The Palin Pick - Geof has some thoughtful words here.
YouTube - Dobson crony prays for rain on Obama’s Speech in Denver - it’s almost funny, if it wasn’t so… so… words fail me.
Value of starting versus closing - I’ve historically been in the “starting is more important camp” but I’m starting to come around to the “importance of the innings” camp a bit.
Palin has security experience b/c Alaska is close to Russia - *sigh*
WP Super Cache 0.7 - the dupe content killer - time to upgrade.
Optimizing Yahoo! Search for the iPhone
Internet Explorer 8 Search Suggestions
AT&T BlackBerry Bold To Launch September 12th? - the “let’s make it look like an iPhone and see if people don’t notice the lack of a touch screen” model.
French doctors use laser to destroy brain tumor in conscious patient - not that i trust Engadget as a source for breaking medical news, but whoa.
McCain Hires GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000 (thanks John)
Matt Mullenweg & Joseph Scott Discuss The WordPress Themes Directory
Absolutely the easiest exercise program ever devised - I’ve generally had success with a similar plan, though I’ve been backsliding a bit of late due to travel and a wrist injury. Time to buckle down again.
My Relationship With Apple Is Like My Relationship With The Republican Party - and a great response from Andrew
Coda 1.5 - yes, I have licenses for just about every Mac text editor out there.
The Overlooked Organizational Issue - if the bloggers can see it, certainly someone in the front office can as well. Right?
CodeIgniter session changes when using a database - I’ll be updating some apps to use this.
Inspecting and Hacking HTTP - I’ve used LiveHTTPHeaders quite a bit, started during FeedLounge development back in the day on a tip from Scott.
Top Websites That Aren’t (Yet) Mainstream - there’s definitely “tech mainstream” and “real mainstream”. A good reminder to step outside the monkey house for some perspective every once in a while.

Posted September 1st, 2008 @ 10:42 PM

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Geof F. Morris adds this Comment:

Thank you, Alex.

September 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 pm

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