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by colinplamondon 18y ago
Really cool, love how it formatted everything- looks phenomenal. Email registration is really awkward, though- I get redirected to Gmail to send a post, then from there to the site to set a account name and password, which I would have done
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
Terrorism has always been around, from the anarchists around the turn of the century . 40,000 people die every year from car accidents, only 3,000 died on 9/11. The fact is, terrorism isn't that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things.
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
There's a difference between invading a country and using surgical strikes to decapitate the senior leadership of a terrorist group that has bombed places from Istanbul to London to Jakarta. I don't think most of Europe would be against a l
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A Brief Guide to World Domination - Chris Guillebeau on Changing the World(chrisguillebeau.com)
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
Most people don't care, the privacy implications are only worried about by people who know enough to worry about the privacy implications. Despite the Facebook Beacon blowup in the blog echo chamber, very few users cared: http://www.sawick
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
Firefox 3- it's more stable, Del.icio.us integration is better on it, the awesome bar is awesome, and Greasemonkey works with it. A lot of Greasemonkey plugins are pretty useless, but GoogleAutoPager is fantastic. It makes it so that Google
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
Yes, I'm sure harsher punishments is what's necessary to change the behavior of 20% of the country. Can't possibly be that the laws need changing.
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
Check out the book "Accelerando" by Charles Stross, he has a great section about sentient corporations. Free to download, even: http://www.accelerando.org On topic, this is really great news, the current regulations for this stuff is real
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
The whole having a motor... "thing" is rather nice, though.
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
Someone else emailed me asking as well, I'm thinking I'll have to write a blog article on heading out here... But yeah! Email sent. Short answer for those interested: Internet access is... acceptable. I brought an Airport Express and upon a
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
You might have missed the "going diving in a tropical paradise every morning" part of my post :)
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
Most days I wake up around 6am and go for a couple of dives, as I'm working on my Divemaster certification in the mornings. Great deal, if anyone's interested- you pay $700 for the course and get unlimited dives for as long as you're workin
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie- there's an unmistakably personal feel to it, as if Carnegie is sitting right there imparting the lessons and stories of his life to you and you alone. He's an incredible writer and it shines through in
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
I don't run into the issue, honestly. The thing I like about Twitter is that it's largely passive- I have Twitterific running in the background with Growl notifications. When the newest Tweets load, whenever that may be, they pop up in the
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by colinplamondon 18y ago
While that's definitely a great way to get icons for sites don't specifically support the iTouch devices it's not exactly an elegant solution. At least for my site, I'd rather users not have to go to that much trouble to see a nice looking
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by colinplamondon 19y ago
I have a folder on my desktop called buckets with individual plain text files called: Blog Topic Bucket Books to Get Bucket Business Todo Bucket Daily Task Bucket Domain Bucket Idea Bucket Link Bucket Music bucket Personal Todo Bucket Quot
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by colinplamondon 19y ago
The idea sounds interesting when you write about it, but when I load the page my first impression is that it looks like every other music streaming site on the planet- it looks like a more crowded version of HypeMachine. If I hadn't read ab
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by colinplamondon 19y ago
Profit maximization.
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by colinplamondon 19y ago
I might be misinterpreting your comment, and if that's so, my apologies, but that would seem to assume that they're dipping into savings to pay month to month expenses and will be buying houses on top of it. Which is completely possible, I
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by colinplamondon 19y ago
You've got mail.
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by colinplamondon 19y ago
You don't have to travel and just look around, shouting 'Hey! I'm traveling!"... though, that's an incredibly fun thing to do, and you meet a lot of smart, amazing, and ambitious people in a very short time by doing it. You can work abroad,
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by colinplamondon 19y ago
That's assuming that breakthrough research will continue to come out of the United States and Europe, as opposed to China, where human rights purposefully lag without repercussion from other nations. The major advances over the fifty years
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by colinplamondon 19y ago
For throwing up a Wordpress blog and uploading files, it's perfect- you have effectively unlimited space, and the Grid server will scale no problem if you get onto Digg or Reddit. Speed is fine, the admin user interface is excellent, and it