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A life decision

You ever come to one of those points in your life where you are at a fork in the road and you have to make a decision that can impact the way you live forever after? Unexpectedly, I came upon one of these moments this afternoon...
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Yahoo! got the mojo

I'm delighted to see that there are signs that people recognize that Yahoo! is winning back its technological street cred. And the great thing is that from some of the stuff I've seen and the overall attitude, I think this is...
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appcasting

I had the same idea espoused in Robin Good's post about appcasting. I experimented with the idea using this post on my blog. This was a lame example as my search sidebar extension is only 11KB, but it was a proof of concept -...
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next.yahoo.com

Want to see the latest stuff that Yahoo! is working on? http://next.yahoo.com/ Some highlights currently on there: Yahoo! Search Developer Network (YSDN) Yahoo! Toolbar Beta: Firefox Y!Q Beta My Yahoo! Ticker Beta My Yahoo! with...
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Know thyself

Yahoo! Personals is offering a free Personality Test. It's a fun little, Flash-based test that takes only about 10 minutes to complete and then you get a report which tells you aboout your personality type and what type of...
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Cygwin tips

Cygwin resources: http://www.mdsh.com/notes/cygwinOnWindowsNT.jsp http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html If you're attempting to ssh to a Cygwin box that is on a Windows domain and you get immediately logged out - e.g.:...
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Woodland Creek Apartments

We visited Woodland Creek Apartments in East Palo Alto today. They look nice (from the outside at least), but they're in a pretty awful neighborhood so we're probably not going to give them any further consideration. Bay Area...