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Google Translate beats Altavista Babelfish

I wanted to read Marcello’s blog, but I don’t read Italian. He’s a fellow Eclipse on Mac developer who lives in Milan. So… I tried the good old Babelfish, by Altavista. I entered in Marcello’s blog and chose Italian->English and … Continue reading

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My Nerd Score: 94

I searched my NetNewsWire feeds and only found one other score: James Robertson with a right down the center 50. [Via Simon Phipps, whose score is also 94.]

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Free To Do Lists – well actually, Ta-Da Lists

From the makers of Basecamp, 37 Signals, is a new free web app that lets you create To Do lists. It’s named Ta-da List and is available at http://www.tadalist.com. You’re allowed to have unlimited items on a list, with a … Continue reading

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I’d like a Mac… Mini size it, please.

Steve Jobs gave his annual keynote at MacWorld today and announced several new products from Apple. Of course, I’ll be loving Tiger and iLife 5, but the thing that I’ll be buying really soon is a Mac mini. It’s kind … Continue reading

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Why blogs succeeded where homepages didn’t

I was in the doctor’s office the other day and a cover caught my eye: Fortune magazine had a “Brady Bunch”-reminiscent picture square of famous bloggers. Don Box almost got prediction #10 of his come true, but Fortune decided not … Continue reading

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Manchurian Candidate

Just finished watching the remake of the Manchurian Candidate (2004). Do yourself a favor and don’t watch this one. The only thing it has in its favor is that its in color. Otherwise, it is more graphic, more disturbing, with … Continue reading

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Book page meme

Merry Christmas everyone! I was combing through my NetNewsWire backlog and trying to get to 0 items waiting to be read before the New Year and ran across Erik’s book page meme entry. I’ve never done one of these before, … Continue reading

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Eclipse 3.1 M4 – an early Christmas gift from the Eclipse team

Eclipse 3.1 M4 is out. It was released right on time, last Friday, December 17th. This is a nice early Christmas gift from the Eclipse team. As always, since this is a beta release, expect some bugs especially with the … Continue reading

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I’ll be playing football video games again in 2010

The very first blog that I wrote was part of a website for a video game that I was passionate about: NFL 2K on the Sega Dreamcast. That game was so superior to all the competitors at the time that … Continue reading

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ActionSomnia

A new sniglet, to describe my current condition. Definition: This is what happens when you either a) watch an action/adventure movie or b) play a video game late at night. Your mind gets revved up because you feel like you’re … Continue reading

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