This isn’t the first time this has happened to me, just the most recent. 
My wife likes to visit qvc.com.  Their site is broken.   More specifically, I think something is wrong with their DNS.  I can’t really prove much of anything, other than DIGging from both my home in Raleigh and my servers in Dallas [...]

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Just read this at Yahoo:
“Financial stocks led Wall Street higher Wednesday on investor hopes the Obama administration will create banks to absorb the bad assets weighing down the financial system.”
Moderately good news short term, and a move I think will help us over the long haul. IF IT’S TRUE. I want to believe [...]

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I’ve added a subscription process to GroovyMag.com, so anyone wishing to advanced purchase GroovyMag for the next year can do so. A number of people had inquired about this, but I was a little reluctant to add that functionality early on (mostly cause there was so much else to do at that point). [...]

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Awesome presentations by people, and of course great conversations with people in the halls and such. I’m probably going to hit an open spaces or two tomorrow. Also, for webdevradio, going to catch up with some people I spoke to last year and see how they’ve progressed over the last year with all [...]

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Not much to say other that I had the best end to end taxi experience ever, using http://www.allamericanlimousinetransp.com/
Very long domain name, but great service. The owner (I think) asked me to email in specifics so he’d have them. No one has ever asked that before. I had some weird stuff – needed [...]

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My wife is still in Australia – it’s already Jan 1 there, but we’ve still got another 15ish hours to go before 2009.
Not sure if I’ll go ‘do’ anything this year or not. Generally we (wife and I) don’t do much on NYE anyway, so doing anything without her might feel ‘wrong’ [...]

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Yeah, that’s about all this post will be. I read an article from IBM developerworks on the upcoming 5.3 features, and something got my dander up: closures.
I first got acquainted with closures in Groovy last year, and love them. They make sense. The syntax is pretty easy, and feels natural in the [...]

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Tivo should license their player/interface/tech to developers to create Flash/Silverlight/JavaFX implementations of Tivo-style playback and record.
I was discussing this with Wayne Sutton the other day, in anticipation of the Youtube Live event.  I was watching Wayne speak on a webcam, and there were a group of us text chatting with him, and he was pontificating [...]

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I got to know iMovie a little this afternoon, and put together a ‘groovy’ promo video for GroovyMag.  Have a look!

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I was meaning to write this a couple weeks ago, but I’ll do it now.  I think this presidential race may end up being far closer than anyone suspected.  So many polls have Obama up, but I think this will end up being much tighter than people were thinking even a few days ago.  Not [...]

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