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I just updated this story.

I’m back! As much fun as it was to be away from everything, I’m happy to be back. It’s been almost two weeks since I touched a keyboard last. I’m afraid to launch my email and aggregator… I’ll try to update ASAP.

And here’s another postponed post, enjoy .

Information

Quality Attributes of Distributed Storage Systems.

Gaming

From sweatshops to stateside corporations, some people are profiting off of MMO gold.
Daily Sudoku.

Fun

Create text using dancing letters.
Miniclip - Free games.
How to make Google Earth movies.

I said I’m going to be away, and unless something happened I’m really away right now. So here’s a few things I left for later posting.

Hardware

Pinnacle Showcenter 200 Brings HD To The Living Room.
Six CPU comparison under Linux.

Gaming

Games distract children with cancer from pain, study suggests.
Are MMORPGs only for Hardcore Gamers?
World of Warcraft Professions Compendium.

Community

Silicon
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I’ll be away for a while starting today, but no worries, you won’t be left empty handed. For now, here’s Daily Friction # 20.

Software

I just found two firefox extensions that allow you to view the source as rendered by the browser. The first is View Rendered Source extension by Jennifer Madden. The second is
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Xbox365.com reports that the new Xbox 360 will be released November 4 2005.
No confirmation from any other source.

Being truthful and honest is very important for every company. Being caught by your target audience in a lie might be embarrassing, not to say harmful to the company’s bottom line. It seems like one of GoDaddy’s many press releases is not very “accurate”.
I lease many domains with GoDaddy, and I read Bob Parsons
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The new version of Movable Type seems to add a few nice features.
Among others you will in this new release the following features:

Feedback rating framework

Junk Folder

TrackBack moderation and editing

feedback settings

Trusted commenters

Commenter management

I would like to see some of those in the next release of WordPress

I found those on flickr and couldn’t resist the cutness.

In a way that I can’t recall now, I ended up on the web site of a company called PC On Point. Browsing through their site I found a design error in which a click on some of the buttons on the download page did not lead back to where it’s suppose to, but instead
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I’ve been sick for a few days, but now I’m back. It’s only a few days before I’ll be gone again, so hold on tight.

Hardware

Do-It-Yourself Wi-Fi antenna will help you to build a Wi-Fi antenna all on your own.

Software

PC OnPoint will help you get rid of PC bugs & errors scan your computer. I did
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Gmail is temporarily unavailable. Cross your fingers and try again in a few minutes. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.
Let’s how long before it’s back up.
11:55pm Update: The web interface is back up, POP3 and SMTP are still down.

While surfing it happens that I come across a buggy site. This might be a flaw in design, a mistake during update, or any other error that might wield the site unusable or looking strange. Most of the times I just pass through it and continue with what I intended to do there, if possible.
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Another days friction. Check out the clips in the Fun section - It will remind you some of the “good” old days of dial-up.

Hardware

It was already on slashdot, in case you missed it here’s the first wood cased ipod.

Software

Rojo is a free web-based service that lets you read RSS feeds.

Information

This is pretty old but if
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Jeremy Zawodny was gone for 9 days and now is wondering what he missed during this time.
When it comes to your RSS feed, how do you determine what you MUST read and what can be dismissed and “marked as read”? Do you have “important” categories vs. other categories?
Catching up on RSS can be very frustrating.
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Happy independence day!!!
On July 4, 1776, the United States claimed its independence from Britain and the world changed. The “land of the free and the home of the brave” was born as well as the American Dream.
Happy birthday America!!!

I’ve added a list of the most commented posts on this site (on the left sidebar). Check it out and see if you have something to add.

According to a new analysis the world is fast approaching a new dark age. That is the conclusion of Jonathan Huebner, a physicist working at the Pentagon’s Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California. He says the rate of technological innovation reached a peak a century ago and has been declining ever since. Huebner
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