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  • Beating Beach Boredom

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    My latest entry (and it has been a while, thanks to other less geeky obligations) to the Geekdad blog is up. Check out Beating Beach Boredom if you’re trying to come up with easy ways to have fun in a gritty, hot, and salty strip of sand. Y’know. The beach?

  • Facebook Is Huge

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    How do I know? Because my mom is on Facebook. I got an email last night, which she sent out to everyone who was at our annual family vacation. Instead of attaching photos to her email, she just posted them to Facebook and sent out the link. My mom is on Facebook. Very cool. I…

  • Worthwhile Weekend

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    After about six weeks without their weekends, I’ve finally gotten a respite. Let’s tally up, shall we? First, Natania’s grandfather passes away. A weekend spent flying up to Massachusetts for that. Good to see everyone, of course, but not exactly a relaxing time. Plus, we drove back. Four people plus a baby on a fourteen…

  • Google Analytics and Exact Search Queries

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    Update: This data is now available by default within the Google Analytics interface. Just head on over to the Advertising > AdWords > Matched Search Queries report and knock yourself out. My advice? Don’t fiddle around with your GA code to get this data, because it’s built-in now! I just wanted to point out an article…

  • Photographs

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    My big project for the past couple of years has been indexing and scanning my family’s photographs. The progress that I’ve made has been relatively small. My goal is to take my Macbook to my parents’ house and scan in all the photos they have, and maybe take a few trips to various relatives, asking…

  • Does Your Wii Make You Sweat?

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    Okay, I guess that sounds a little obscene. I’ve been thinking about my lack of an active exercise regime and I think it boils down to one thing: exercise is boring. I was in much better shape during college, when I played organized sports with local leagues. Roller hockey and pick-up football and basketball were…

  • More Than Words Can Say

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    I guess I should start off by saying, yet again, that my negligence in contributing to this (hardly) self-enforced ritual of journal-writing is staggering, even to my sagging standards. I think that, given the events that have gone down since I was bemoaning the KeyArena’s fate way back in August, I’ve been fully entitled to…

  • Taxpayers and the Sports Teams They Bankroll

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    A really interesting post at the Supersonicsoul blog about the predicament with the ‘Sonics, specifically in reference to team being, more or less, extorted into renovating KeyArena. Pete Nussbaum writes: The argument these stadiums/teams produce economic benefits is provably false, so the only argument can be that we as fans want others to pay for…

  • Spammers Now Using Author Names for Recognition

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    I opened Gmail this morning and before purging my spam folder, I somehow noticed, amongst the fluff, a name that I recognized. Seems that Australian YA author Garth Nix is now in the spamming business… or spammers are using unique author names to get people to click on their crud. Click here for the full-size.