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I’ve never been good enough at live poker to have a cash management problem.  But today, after several sessions where I bought in at the Big Game with hundreds and then got cashed out in twenties, I’m having a currency storage problem.   I went to the bank and asked to color up my bills and…

While cleaning out my inbox, I found this Washington Post article about how terrorist groups are doing their best to be careful about our surveillance. When terrorist groups learned that the National Security Agency could track electronic communication only when it was in transit — not when it was sitting in an inbox — users…

I love this campaign: Burger King was initially leery of Heavy’s proposal that it send masks of the king character to two dozen of the site’s regular contributors. And rather than permitting the company and its lawyers to approve each video, Mr. Assaad asked the company to keep its hands off. "We said, ‘Legal will…

Link: Forget Blogs, Print Needs Its Own IPod – New York Times.

The phone rang this morning.  My mom, dad, my wife Sarah, and I were all sitting around the table eating kolaches and making googly faces at the baby.  My dad looked at the caller id on the phone, didn’t recognise the phone number, and said, “We’ll let the machine get it.”  They get a lot of telemarketers.  My mom remarked at how this round of chemo wasn’t giving her diarhea, wasn’t really killing her appetite, and how she hadn’t thrown up yet.  Mostly it had just made her tired.

The answering machine clicked on.

“Have you planned for your funeral?” a voice asked.  “A funeral today costs thousands of dollars, and creates an additional burden upon your family while they’re already grieving for you.  Save your family the emotional and financial toll by planning and paying for your funeral today.  Call xxx-xxx-xxxx to learn more.”

I am not making this up.

Nobody laughed but me.  And I was laughing only on the inside.

I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet . It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com
“Computers are useless. They…

Listening to: Black Eyed Peas, “Elephunk” Here’s a pointer to the photos I took this year at Burning Man. I’m assembling an index now, so if you find random clicking inefficient, just check back in a few days and I’ll have it annotated.