In the religion and language survey,first written about here, we’ve already got 2800 entries in less than 24 hours.  I’d like to leave this open for at least another week, but am also interested in working with some of you out there to parse the data and come up with some reports.  If you’ve got [...]

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Got an interesting reply from Mikeal Rogers on the subject of copyright, open source, contributor license agreements, and such.  His post was in reply to a recent podcast from codemash on these subjects.  It’s a bit much to reprint here, so I’ve linked to the forum post.  Lots to think about.
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I’ve put up a small survey which I’m hoping will help me get an idea of whether there’s any connection between computer language choice and religious identification.  Do Catholics gravitate towards Java?  Are Python users more likely to be Baptist?  It’s basically a ‘fun’ thing - I don’t claim it’ll be scientific, but I’m still [...]

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Are there Twitterclones that can be used internally on your own private network?  Either free or hosted services?  It’s probably not a new idea to many of you, but it struck me recently that Twitter-style messaging would be a handy addition to in-company communications.
Do such services or packages exist already?  If not, anyone know of [...]

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Was just discussing the idea of someone playing me in my life story.  The story would also involve me trying to be like that particular celebrity.  So, the celeb would be playing someone who was trying to be like them, but failing at it (for comedic effect).  Or perhaps succeeding.  I dunno.  I call the [...]

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Picked up from Reuters:
The more wine costs, the more people enjoy it, regardless of how it tastes, a study by California researchers has found.
Researchers at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the California Institute of Technology found that because people expect wines that cost more to be of higher quality, they trick themselves into [...]

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I was having an interesting conversation with Joe Brinkman from the DotNetNuke project this evening, and he got to talking about the ’social networking’ focus in the next DNN release.  I had a small brainwave and suggested something to him, but the implications might be larger than I originally considered.
He mentioned that they’d be looking [...]

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Seems mostly like a waste to me.  I’ve grocery shopped in 5 states in the past 3 years, and most of them have had the stupid plastic tack-on boards holding pictures of local ‘REALTOR(tm)’s who inevitably freak me out, staring at me while I’m sizing up my bananas.  Does anyone buy anything from these people?  [...]

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I’m testing putting together an embeddable link feature in the matchorclash.com system. Basically looking for something that can help spread this virally a bit more. I’ve had “make it a facebook app” suggested a few times, and it’s on the list of things to look in to, but I’d rather get something launched [...]

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I’ve had two frustrating phone calls with directv today which brought to the fore all the things I hate about dealing with phone services.  Every time I call up places that I regularly call, I’m forced to
1.  Press “dos” if I “desea espanol”.
2.  Tell the friendly attendant robot what my needs are, like “tell me [...]

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