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General
2006-06-26 :: mark

Get ready. I’m about to prove to the world that I have no idea how to run a multi-billion-dollar company, especially one that relies so heavily on advertising. I’m no Gilette CEO, but I think this idea has legs. So here goes. You listening, Coke?
Do you like Coke? Or are you a Pepsi person? Well, [...]

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General
2006-06-21 :: mark

Let’s me just get this out there: I’m a Dallas Mavericks fan.
Why, you ask?
Well, I wasn’t really much of a Heat or Dallas fan to begin with. But when it came time to pick one to root for in the finals, I had to go Dallas because they don’t have Shaq. I enjoy rooting for [...]

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Internet + Software
2006-06-16 :: mark

The new Picasa Web Albums is here, and with it, a new beta version of Picasa. The coolest thing that I didn’t hear about is that this thing supports geo-tagging your pictures, of course, with the help of Google Earth.
So cool.
Cross-hair overlay on Google Earth maps, easy point and click tagging, and pop-out place (KML) [...]

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Travel
2006-06-08 :: mark

May 24 started out in a way that a typical day for me never starts — at 7AM. Thanks to jet lag, I got to sleep around 1AM and could no longer sleep around 5AM. I finally stumbled out of bed and made my way to the communal bathroom.
At this time I’d like to give [...]

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Internet
2006-06-07 :: mark

Two quickies before I get back to posting about Europe.
If you ever needed a reason to say to someone, “Hey, Finland totally rocks”, well, here it is:

And if that wasn’t your cup ‘o tea, how about something geekier? Way geekier. Hitachi Research has proven, once and for all, that if you don’t let engineers out [...]

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