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Tue
17
Oct '06

403 Forbidden: A Geek's Guide to Rejection

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Excerpt: I'm a geek.  Based on the content of this blog, many of my readers are too.  But some of you just may have seen a woman at some point.  If you have, you have likely been rejected, but don't understand what she means.  This handy guide will put rejection into terms we can ...
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Tue
26
Sep '06

Why I Still Have a Job in Computer Science

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Excerpt: This recent article cites that many universities are experiencing a sharp drop in computer science student enrollment.  Many attribute it to outsourcing scares and a final acknowledgement that the dot Com bubble did indeed pop.  It is no longer totally rad to be a computer scientist.  ...
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Mon
28
Aug '06

Deodorant Lockdown!

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Excerpt: This is totally off subject, but I promise another post today.  In the meantime, though -- I can't make this up.  I'm staying in Washington D.C., visiting a friend, and I forgot to bring deodorant.  Since I have mercy on the souls of others who stand near me in this heat, I de ...
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Thu
17
Aug '06

Microsoft the Most Standards-Compliant?

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Excerpt: Is the world upside down?  By way of Jake's post on blog.outer-court.com, Microsoft was the only search engine that passed the W3C Markup Validation Service test in flying colors -- no errors.  All the other search engines bit the dust.  Google came in fourth with 61 errors. Was i ...
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Wed
16
Aug '06

Even "The Axis of Evil" is Bloggin'

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Excerpt: Hurry up and start a blog if you haven't already, because even the fundamentalists are ahead of the curve.  Mahmood Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, announced his new blog over here.  In an unabashed display of self-importance, his first post is an autobiography:It starts with "In ...
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Wed
9
Aug '06

Stop googling for Hotties!

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Excerpt: You might get sued!  Expect Google to mail lots of legal letters as they make a desperate effort to protect their ailing trademark.  Google has become almost synonymous with search -- and if they aren't careful, they'll end up like "Band-aid," "Spam," and " ...
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Fri
28
Jul '06

SEO Contemplates Suicide When Google Update Occurs

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Excerpt: Apparently, he entered a deep bout of depression on June 27, and never acted quite the same since then. Matt Cutts stated something extremely vague in response here. "I believe any changes on the 27th were refreshing data used by an existing algorithm." Cryptic indeed. And many screame ...
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Tue
25
Jul '06

Why Google Chose AMD

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Excerpt: Recently, the performance gap between Intel and AMD has been closing -- first with AMD leading and gaining some much-earned credibility, then, more recently, with Intel making a comeback.  Intel also apparently leads in performance per watt now, too. But Google had to know about the "comeb ...
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