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Posting to Twitter from Feedburner

August 15, 2011
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Feedburner is great, if only because you get to watch your subscriber numbers. I dare say if it wasn’t for that number (and that chart), the service would have significantly fewer users. Not because FB is bad in any way, mind you, but the best thing Microsoft ever did for Xbox Live was give...

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Review: Rango

March 21, 2011
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Rango will leave a bad taste in your mouth if you brought children to the theater. What could have been a great children’s movie ended up an average drama-comedy for western lovers. Though you should blame the advertising department, not the movie.

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Review: Megamind

March 19, 2011
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On the surface, Megamind is about a super-villain, upon losing his super-hero, must become the hero to save the town and the woman he loves. But peel that away and you realize it’s about a deformed kid learning he can be anything he wants…...

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Review: The Cape — Bad. Really Bad. Extremely Not Good.

January 18, 2011
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Seriously. This is an awful show with zero plus zero redeeming qualities. It belongs in the after-school slot before the evening news. It reminds me of the show Mutant X. Not in terms of plot, but in quality and writing. That is: both suck...

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Review: Harry’s Law — Paltry, but enjoyable

January 18, 2011
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Harry’s Law finds a veteran patent lawyer at her wit’s end with the suffocatingly dull world of patent law. On the same day she’s fired, Harry becomes the mattress of a suicide jumper and lands on a mattress after being hit by a car...

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Does you like Sudoku like I do?

January 16, 2011
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What? Sometimes bad grammar is dirty fun to a writer. Like sex in the shower. Don’t judge me. I saw you take two pieces of candy when the lady said you could only take one. You know what I’m talking about. We were eight....

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Relax, it’s just a naming scheme

January 15, 2011
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Programming naming schemes are as uniform as a fashion parade. The farther from the the source of your programming hobby/career, the most personalized your scheme becomes. Mine varies with each project, but tends to follow suit with the language I’m using. ECMAScripts, as in...

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