Archive for September, 2006
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Indeed.com’s Salary Search just got dugg because Walt Mossberg mentioned it.
I didn’t learn anything that I didn’t know back in April. But that’s because this feature has been available through SimplyHired for a while now (and I suspect SimplyHired’s may be a bit more accurate).
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
PhotographyBlog tells me that Epson has updated their amazing photobank line with the P5000 and P3000. The main difference (besides the price) are 80GB vs. 40GB internal hard drive.
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
“A civility that considers torture a negotiable virtue is a civility long past redemption.
I will take my values real but rough, and leave ‘values’ of a David Broder or David Brooks where they lie — abandoned in the name of centrist balance, hollowed from disuse, weakened so as not to offend or provoke.
I would rather [...]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
“Ned Lamont is an unlikely vehicle. It’s always unlikely people who turn history. It must be God has a funny sense of humor. In my imagination, I see the meeting in heaven when they say it’s time to really deal with this war: ‘We need a messenger to send to the Democratic Party.’ And an [...]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
“This is about honest government. This is about preserving our civil liberties. This is about separation of church and state. This is about competence. Anyone that doesn’t have grave doubts about this administration after these past six years is not interested in anything but power.
This is a defining moment in American history. Which way are [...]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
ProductDose lists my laptop bag as the 8th coolest laptop case. It was their “pick for the ‘normal’ laptop bag of the lot.”
Nice to know I’m normal.
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
(Views expressed are my own, not Plaxo’s.)
Stuart, the head of HR, is leaving Plaxo. One interesting aspect is that he mentions that you should go to his public LinkedIn Profile for his contact information.
That’s a little weird as Plaxo has a much more useful add me to your address book.
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
A recent Balloon Juice posting reminded me of one of my favorite Cartman quotes:
“Respect Mah Authoritah!”
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Monday, September 25th, 2006
glennuendo
noun
Trying to insert revisionist nuance into your thesis or the act of drawing a darkly ominous inference from an opponent’s failure to discuss a political issue.
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Thursday, September 21st, 2006
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”
—Mahatma Gandhi in reply to a query by Missionary E. Stanley Jones who asked why Gandhi why he quoted Christ so often.
capelza brings up a great point on this thread on George Allen: “Oh and while we are on [...]
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