Posts Tagged ‘ News ’

Thoughts on EULAs (amidst the iBook controversy)

January 20, 2012
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My writers group has been passing emails back and forth today re: Apple’s new iBook EULA.  I know this is also a hot topic across the ‘Net today, so I wanted to share with everyone what I sent to the writers group. – I would put forth that EULA’s are, for the most part,...

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News 1-12-2010

January 12, 2010
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Actually spent a little time this evening going through my Google Reader and looking for interesting things to share. Technology / Science News Google’s Nexus One phone sparks flood of complaints. Just eight days after Google opened its online store to sell the new Nexus One smartphone directly to customers, its support forums have...

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Interesting things from the web

October 13, 2009
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Another quick round up of stuff I found interesting on the web today. Galactic Hookup Spawns Celestial Offspring comes from Wired (but it’s all over the web). Basically, Hubble caught a photo of galaxies colliding.  I wonder what happens to the stars and planets when galaxies collide and merge?  Man. Wouldn’t that be a...

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Roundup of interesting things

October 12, 2009
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I find these things interesting, and thought I would share em by compiling a list here today.  The names were NOT changed to protect the innocent. Ars Technica Ars Technica has a lot of interesting articles each week. Sometimes I link em on Twitter, sometimes I don’t.  Last week, they talked about advertising and...

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My Writing Projects

September 1, 2009
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I decided an update was in order on my various writing projects.  Woot, right?  I know you were really curious what’s been going on so here it is. #1 Sam Kane Synopsis: Sam Kane is a detective with the Denver PD – it’s her first week as a Detective and she’s already screwed up....

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News roundup 08-12-09

August 12, 2009
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Here’s the stuff I checked out at lunch today. Technology Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word (patent infringement) Apple insider CNet News Facebook launching Twitter-version of site? CNet News Apple Stuff iPhone share of Smartphone market continues to increase Apple releases Safari 4.0.0 Music labels to offer enhanced album format to compete with...

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Podcast: Episode 5

July 19, 2009
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Episode #5: All Things from My Brain In the fifth episode of the All Things From My Brain podcast, I talk about the Palm Pre losing it’s iTunes sync functionality, how India plans to issue biometric ID cards to its 1.2 BILLION citizens, how the Kindle and Amazon are once again in the news...

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New thing I did – A Podcast

June 21, 2009
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So. Guess what I did this weekend? I created a podcast!! I decided that I have a face fit for radio… Or Podcasting… Anyway, spent the weekend working on this – hoping that I’ve worked the kinks out and it’ll be much much easier to do these moving forward.  We’ll have to see about...

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Would you pay for news?

March 17, 2009
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Some former staffers from the Rocky Mountain News think you might. The Associated Press is reporting that these staffers are getting together to launch a new site for news: InDenverTimes.com. Now – I wanna say right off the bat that I think this is great and I wish them well.  The closing of an...

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Monday News Bites

January 5, 2009
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Just a few things that caught my eye today over lunch… Never Defend Yourself Israel continues to pound the Gaza Strip.  All I can say is: It’s about damned time.  Sheesh!  Everyone is making this out to be a bad thing, that Israel is the bad guy, that there needs to be a cease...

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