As I often do, I spent my lunch sifting through various news sites. One of the front-page stories from Wired caught my eye because it had no description or author information associated with it (click the thumbnails above for screenshots). The short blurb itself didn't adhere to standard journalistic grammar; at least insofar [...]
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Between a morning and afternoon of meetings to pitch a new product idea, I snuck in a rather surreal lunchtime trip to an auction preview of assets from a bankrupted optical networking company.
I knew a lot of people that worked for the place. It had a reputation of severely overpaying employees and burning venture [...]
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Do you hate being forced to look at ads while you putter around the web? Me too. For that reason I've been blocking advertising servers with my own compilation of ad server filters for quite some time. The fantastic Firefox (formerly Firebird) browser/AdBlock combination makes this method seem redundant for browsing with [...]
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