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    Help Desk Radio

    Speaking of the drive down to Cincinnati, while scanning the dial this morning, I caught a few minutes of a show called “HelpDesk”, on WMUB, a college radio/NPR station in Oxford, OH. Turns out that the call-in show is broadcast on-line on Tuesday mornings, and is also available as a podcast. Could be an interesting…

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    SmartSetr

    Kevin Devin has a nice screencast over at Friends in Tech showing off a little tool he found from Eric Appel called SmartSetr that lets you create dynamic sets on Flickr by tag or date, etc. I’ll definitely be taking a look at that one soon. Another tool that I might take a look at…

  • I want, I want

    So far they are only rumors, or planned products with no pricing, but can I just say the idea of a Windows Home Server and a 1-Terabyte hard drive gets me excited? Or maybe it’s just been a long day and I’m easily excited? It was a very long day, the first day of maternity…

  • Who do you trust?

    Marc Orchant trusted Google, at least until he heard about a small number of folks who seem to have lost their Gmail accounts, now he’s madly using Google’s POP3 access to grab a copy of all the email he has stored in Gmail. I use Gmail, I also use Outlook to access Gmail and make…

  • The new smokers?

    I had to laugh when reading this column comparing blackberry users to smokers, in terms of the annoyance caused. As a blackberry user myself, it got my attention, but as I read it I realized that this was basically the same column I’ve read about cell phone users, and the bottom line was the same….

  • Question about Google Reader

    Actually, it’s a question about the shared items RSS feed. I subscribed to Scoble’s Shared items in Bloglines the other day and discovered something odd. Instead of the title of each post showing as the title, the title of the original blog shows as the post title. That makes scanning the feed a lot harder…