Had a decent amount of driving again in the last couple weeks:
419.6 miles - 12.33 gallons to fill up (@ $3.929 - not over the $4 some of you are paying, but still painful!)
That’s 34.03 mpg for the last fill up.  I had some highway driving, which seems to really help kick it up past [...]

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ReadWriteWeb had a thought-provoking article up today about what the future IT worker would look like.  More specifically, what sorts of skills this person would need to have to be successful.  Not surprisingly, the recommendation was, in a nutshell, the ability to communicate with other members of the business on their terms.  I don’t think [...]

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I currently don’t drive much, so when I do I tend to be more aware of others’ driving habits than I used to be.  Maybe it’s the speeding tickets I’ve had over the years, or maybe I’m just getting old, but I don’t tend to drive very fast anymore.  If anything my wife thinks I [...]

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TechCrunch has a story on a recently funded Facebook app which, frankly, seems stupid.  Buying and selling ‘friends’ as ‘pets’.  People have already sold me somehow on Facebook, and I just ignore it.  I don’t get it.  I thought MySpace was the place for stupid/flitty ideas, but it seems Facebook is moving in that direction, [...]

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Not too much to say on this, but I filled up last night and calculated I’d managed 32mpg in the car.  Mind you, I had only gone through half the tank (but with gas prices continually going up, I figured I’d refill now) - 6.4 gallons took me 205 miles.  I had usually had anywhere [...]

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I just read a comment over on a blog at BusinessWeek and it got me to thinking about the car industry. Being from Detroi, I still have some friends there involved in the car industry at the Big Three - Ford, GM and Chrysler.  The Big Three are having their lunch eaten by foreign companies [...]

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Just had an interesting conversation with Morgan from SaysMe.tv, and newly launched… um… service.  I paused there cause I’m not really sure what to call it.  Advertising ASP?  Are ASPs fashionable anymore?  In any event, the service looks very interesting, though limited right now to political fodder due to the primaries and election season.  I [...]

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Michael Arrington posted a fresh lament about the state of his inbox. He’s got 2400+ emails in his inbox right now, and he will likely nuke them all and start over (yet again) shortly. This got me to thinking (yet again!) about email/spam/inboxes. The article rightly pointed out that right now we [...]

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There’s an article on TechCrunch about Yahoo offering support for a number of microformat standards.
They are saying that they will support a number of microformats at the start: hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN. They will support vocabulary components from Dublin Core, Creative Commons, FOAF, GeoRSS, MediaRSS, and others. They will support RDFa and eRDF [...]

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I’ve put up a first pass at visualizing the data from the survey I put up last month about computer language use and religion.  This was an attempt to see if there are any correlations between languages people *prefer* to use and religious identity.  The results are available to be viewed at http://www.kimsal.com/reldevsurvey/results.php.
There’s a few [...]

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