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The 2010 Social Networking Map (via tor.com, with OP credit to xkcd)

11 August 2010, 9:32 am  « Viewed 8 times

Check out this awesome thing (click for larger in new):

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Killing Tynt’s “Read More:” Clipboard Copy Hijacker With The Adblock Plus Plug-In For Firefox

19 July 2010, 7:07 pm  « Viewed 93 times

I love Firefox. It’s pretty much the only Web browser I use. I hate Tynt. If you’ve ever copied text from a Web page, then pasted it, only to find a mysterious “Read More:” link inserted at the end of the text you copied, you just ran headfirst into Tynt. Each time a user pastes [...]

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On Facebook’s New Features, Privacy And The Near Future Of The Web

26 April 2010, 2:46 am  « Viewed 8 times

Quite a bit has been made recently of the changes to Facebook’s default settings, an extensive expansion of how Facebook shares data with other Web sites, and how all that works within the traditional expectation — if not the fundamental understanding — most people have about privacy. Facebook’s recent change to, by default, share public [...]

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How I Maintain A High “Best Answers” Percentage On Yahoo! Answers

6 June 2008, 8:43 am  « Viewed 10 times

Asked recently in an e-mail message: Hi Doug, I was just wondering since my ratio is a lot less due to abandoned questions Do you have some kind of special method you want to share to get the best answer like only answering the very difficult questions with such a complete answer that they just [...]

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About Me / Contact Me

6 October 2006, 8:34 pm  « Viewed 425 times

I am a free-lance computer programmer and business consultant based in Augusta, Maine. I was raised in Augusta from age 3. I attended Cony High School from 1981-1985 and the University of Maine in Orono from 1986-1991, where I majored in broadcast journalism. I earned a bachelor of science degree in broadcast journalism from UMaine [...]

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