Posts from May, 2005
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May0Comments Off
Comment spam is a problem I can’t seem to solve, so I’ve turned comments off for the time being. A headache to bloggers everywhere, comment spam is a technique used by shady online poker sites (and others), to increase their site rankings. To make matters worse, if you checked the “notify me when someone responds” [...]
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May0To-Do Done Right
I love 37 Signals philosophy: “We believe software is too complex. Too many features, too many buttons, too much to learn. We build products that do less, work smarter, feel better, let you do things your way, and are easier to use.” This is demonstrated by the Chicago shop’s simple, but surprisingly useful web-based [...]
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May0Wear Your Helmet
When I was young, my mom gave me two commandments: 1) Never go outside in a thunderstorm 2) Never, ever ride a motorcycle. OK, so maybe there were a few others, but these two really stuck with me. I think I’ve been on the back of a motorcycle only once or twice. I still get [...]
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May0Quote of the Day
America has to do with 60 percent of my brain and all things I experience in my life, and I’m not happy about that… I’d say 60 percent of my life is American so I am in fact an ‘American’ too. But I can’t go there and vote or change anything there. That [...]
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May0Fearleading
Imagine, after serving your church as a deacon for twelve years, you’re shown the door because you refused to sign forms supporting the Republican political views of your pastor. You ask yourself, Does God really want us to use the pulpit this way? From a pragmatic standpoint, how can the church ask the state [...]
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