I have been working in the web industry for over 10 years now. I was there when “Community” referred to functionality that allowed users to interact with a site. Today in the Web 2.0 era it’s more commonly referred to as “Social Networking”. My experience has been primarily based around managing web development. I’ve been [...]

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On Friday morning I was getting ready for work and about to leave my house when I realized that the first game of the world cup had just started between Germany and Costa Rica. I decided to turn on the TV and caught the game just as it was starting. I was able to catch [...]

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A few weeks ago a friend contacted me to share the misfortune of his house being robbed. They took several electronic items including his digital camera. My friend, and I suspect many other people, had a habit of leaving month�s worth of pictures on the memory card in his camera without downloading them to his [...]

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The most common use of an RSS feeds are to provide summaries of news posts from web sites. The RSS feeds usually provide a snippet of the story with a link to the full post. There are many more interesting and unique uses for rss feeds that have been created across the internet. I am [...]

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so i’ve been bitten a bit by the poker bug that has been sweeping by of late. I’m a pretty newcomer only having played for the last 2 years or so. A friend that worked for a poker dotcom got me start playing while beta testing their software. I have since played on several of [...]

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I am writing this post from a public terminal at the San Fernando courthouse (in LA County). They have 2 public terminals that you can rent time on to access the net. Prices are $4 for 60 minutes or $10 for a one day pass. Upon sitting down to use it I knew something was [...]

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So I recently built a RAID 5 system to be used primarily as a media file server. I transfer large home video files over my network to this machine on a continual basis. Since both my server and personal machine have gigabit nic cards in them I thought it might be a good idea to [...]

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[Note: DDR John footage is still on the cutting room floor but will appear soon...be sure to return, I promise it will be worth it!!!]
So I used to be in the videogame biz several years ago having been employed by gamefan.com as director of development. Basically I managed a great team of developers, html / [...]

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I have spent a good deal of time researching the domain name marketplace and have come across some really good resources that will be of help to anyone interested:

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Making purchases for electronic products or other technology has become a much more difficult task with the advent of the net. It generally used to be be a fairly simple process by comparing features and quality for a given pricepoint. Unfortunately it’s not that easy anymore. I usually start my hunt and narrow down to [...]

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