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Making It In A Technologically Frustrated World

January 14th, 2010 · 5 Comments

I’m working on getting rid of the clutter in my life. It’s a hard process but the first step is to be utterly ruthless with throwing things away that you aren’t going to use or haven’t used in a year. In an electronic world, this is getting harder to do because it’s just [...]

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Twitter, Facebook, and Who Really Cares

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I started twittering this week. I caved in to peer pressure, I guess. The good news – I linked up my facebook and my twitter accounts so when I update one, the other one gets updated as well.
The bigger question is who really cares and has time for this? I [...]

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Facebook To Own Stuff Forever…What To Do?

February 17th, 2009 · 6 Comments

With the new user agreement at Facebook, my attention was drawn to this line…

You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works [...]

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The Greatest Facebook Status Comment

December 19th, 2008 · No Comments

My good friend David Baumgartner’s status: David is getting ready to head to Cub Scouts.
Grant’s response: I never made it past there either but I quit when I reached high school.

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Tags: humor

New Plug-in For Facebook users of Wordpress

November 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Or Wordpress users of Facebook…however you want to roll.
Here’s the plugin page: Status-Press Widget – this is the widget version.
This is the non-widget version.
I’m using the widget version over there on the right.
Basically it rips the status off an RSS feed from Facebook and let’s you display it on your website. [...]

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Aim and Facebook

November 13th, 2008 · 13 Comments

Aim has an annoying habit of correcting my grammar when it comes to my status on Facebook. She’s obsessive compulsive about it. In fact, whenever anybody messes up their status line – I hear it from Amy.
Alright, maybe not every time but it does bug her when people don’t erase the “is” on [...]

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Tags: humor

Cool New Feature

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve been trying to figure out how in the world to get the comments from Facebook to my blog. Anytime I post something here – I’ve got it automatically going to Facebook.
Some of my friends comment on Facebook, some here. How to bring the two together?
This plugin by James Low. [...]

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