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Update: I was burned by the April Fool’s Joke. If you can’t pull it on April 1, I don’t know if it counts… but oh well.
The acquisition of F**ckedCompany.com by TechCrunch makes some sense. Still, Mike Arrington might want to reconsider this quote.
That does not bode well for the future - there just isn’t anything [...]

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On Tuesday, when David announced 100 billion DNS queries for OpenDNS, the chart was enhanced with a dancing banana. Go ahead, click through and see.
Back yet?
Good. Now compare the dancing banana to Snappy, the dancing logo of the original Snap.com, shared here. (Thanks to David, Snappy loops continually now.)
This is before Snap became NBC [...]

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And another year has passed. Kids happily re-gifted some of their presents to me, and cupcakes were enjoyed by all.
I started the day in darkness with a mile run on the Kezar track, as I’ve done occasionally in past years. 5:23 left me convinced that I haven’t slowed down too much, although I can’t find [...]

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I got to take credit for something today that I didn’t do, thanks to the wife. How much longer before the boy reads the blog and asks me what I’m referring to?
(Yes, I owe you big time.)

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Last week, the boy wanted to make Inca masks. I told him we might find something on the Internet, so he typed away. Didn’t get a great response from the Safari address bar, but I think he’s starting to get the idea. Note: I never did find useful instructions for such a craft project, [...]

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I have not yet turned Growl back on, but Growl was not the problem. I took the iMac G5 into the Genius Bar last Saturday night (yes, I’m that much fun), for the second trip in three days.
Good news, though, was that I left the computer there that night, and had it back, free of [...]

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Norman Mailer’s best-known book The Naked and the Dead filled my nights over the last few weeks. I didn’t plow straight through, but I became more interested the further I went on.
My grandfather served on a destroyer in the Pacific during World War II. The island warfare depicted in this book, following an army platoon, [...]

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I’m putting all training details over on WeEndure, but a race is worth noting. Emerald Nuts Across the Bay 12k was this morning. I didn’t spend more than a few strides enjoying the morning view on the Golden Gate Bridge, but the weather was pretty nice and the race felt good: 47:39. I last ran [...]

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At times, the head gets racing, and despite myself, I can’t sleep. I’ve been up for a bit over two hours already. Been a productive time, actually, but it’s going to make the rest of this day pretty tough… the boy wakes up in probably 10 minutes, so not much point in trying to go [...]

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Update, March 17th The sleep problem reoccured, and now it’s gotten worse: the computer won’t start up. Heading back to the Genius Bar tonight.
I suppose the good news is that maybe after all this is solved, I can turn on Growl again, since it’s not longer clear that was the (only) problem.

It took [...]

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