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Antennagate Bottom Line – cell reception is a local issue. John has way better reception in Philly than I’ve seen in Denver and the Bay Area. I was dropping at least 1 in 10 calls when on AT&T (I think more like 1 in 5). Since moving to Verizon nearly a year ago, i have dropped a single call. One. That’s it.
Fred’s wrong (or quoted out of context) – agreed.
WordPress TextMate Bundle Updated – time to update.
Tweetage Wasteland : The Web’s Five Most Endangered Words -

We each take a few seconds to consider a one hundred forty character blurb and then hammer out our reactions by way of a Tweet or status update.

That model works for some incoming data. I only need a few seconds to come up with my official response to much of what is shared by way of the realtime web: Farmville update (hide), Foursquare Check-in (ignore), Mel Gibson tape (email link to Rabbi), Kid in a watermelon (retweet).

Other news and information doesn’t necessarily fit into the new instant-response model.
Emails – I can relate.
United Countries of Baseball – Very cool visualization (thanks Shawn).
How do you achieve laser focus and concentration? – edw519 – I can see this working – I just wish I had more coding time. (Thanks Ben)

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