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So I recently decided to upgrade to Wordpress 2.1 (was running Wordpress 1.5.1.3). I was able to do it rather painlessly, so I figured I’d share just in case others wanted to know.
1. Go grab the Wordpress XML Export . Follow the instructions to put wp-xmlmigrate.php into your wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Open up wp-xmlmigrate.php and head […]

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I had the ah-ha moment today about how/where news and information delivery is going finally.
I know. It’s probably late, but better late than never right?
Here’s how it played out.
I woke up this morning, got a beverage and sat down on the couch. Cracked open the powerbook, and fired up bloglines. […]

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They reasoned that extra-terrestrial intelligence should be common by now. Fermi listened patiently, then asked, simply, “So, where is everybody?” That is, if extra-terrestrial intelligence is common, why haven’t we met any bright aliens yet? This conundrum became known as Fermi’s Paradox.
– Full article

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If you live in Seattle or San Francisco, you can get street level views at http://preview.local.live.com
We had a brainstorm that could help flesh this out. What if you paid people on a per image basis to drive/walk/bike/bus around taking images every 10 seconds or whatever.
Microsoft, what if you paid people 10 […]

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Is search done yet? Quick, find a list of 100 bloggers. Now, quick, tell me what their email addresses are.
You can find mine pretty easily. Just go to Google or MSN or Yahoo and type:
Scoble email
And you’ll find it within the first few links. Why? Cause I put my email on my home page. It’s […]

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Even the famous Tanjung Puting national park in Kalimantan is being ripped apart by oil planters. The orangutan is likely to become extinct in the wild. Sumatran rhinos, tigers, gibbons, tapirs, proboscis monkeys and thousands of other species could go the same way. Thousands of indigenous people have been evicted from their lands, and some […]

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I suppose I’m gloating a bit here, but I’ve determined that I have quite a nice work setup going on.
What you’ll see there is 2 20″ LCD monitors, the 40gb iPod, a pair of Shure E2c’s (which you’ll just have to trust that one of those cords is indeed that).
What you can’t see are […]

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Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Hardware - Natural® Ergonomic Keyboard 4000
Picked up this gem last week. I’ve had about 50hrs on it now and I totally love it. The selling point for me was the reverse tilt on it (so the back tilts up a bit), much like my beloved Logitech New Touch. […]

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The invention is a battery comprised of an electrical current collector constructed of carbon or lightweight graphite foam. This foam exhibits a sizeable increase in surface area for chemical reactions to take place and eliminates the need for heavy lead plates found in traditional batteries. The graphite material resists corrosion and sulfation build-up, thus contributing […]

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So… this is *super* lame.
I signed up for Skype back in February. I haven’t really had much need to use it, but I may here in the near future.
Back in Feb, I decided to buy $10 of credit just so i could do SkypeOut and such.
Well, upon finding my credit balance at $0.00 […]

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