Plastic Surgery

My Dell Latitude is nearly four years old, which is about 85 in Laptop-years. Sure, the glide pad has an unnatural sheen in the middle, buffeted by hundreds of hours of hackery; the bumps on the “F” and “J” keys wore off a long time ago; and the cooling fan groans whenever I do serious

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I’m Turning Patentese

I hope that, by 2006, I’ll have secured my place in innovation history, along side the Method of concealing partial baldness. Peabody, set the Way-back machine for December, 2002. The first round of my product was scheduled for launch in March. It was neat, but what I was really excited about was the vision, the

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Link Refererer spamming

Referer link spamming is when someone from Site A fakes out web servers on Site B into thinking someone was referred from Site A. The hope is that Site B is running one of those dynamic visitors lists and, by doing so, Site A appears on Site B’s list when Google’s indexing spider visits. Google

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Hallowe’en 2004

I made sure we got the bags of candy that included Skittles in case, you know, there’s leftover candy. I’m glad I siphoned off a few for my own continued research purposes because this was the first Hallowe’en since, like, forever, that we ran out of candy. My oldest was dressed in a cat costume,

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This just in…

The headline from CNN just graced my mailbox a few minutes ago: The Federal Reserve says rising energy costs are constraining consumer, business spending. My reaction: D-uhhhhhhhh! This obvious insight, broadcast to thousands of CNN users, might just be a symptom of a slow news day. I just checked CNN’s web site, and among the

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