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Entries from July 2006

WSOP: The short version

July 31st, 2006 · 5 Comments

I’m out.
I lasted about 11 1/2 hours, which was good enough to beat about 1/2 the field, but still nowhere close to the money. I’m certainly not happy about busting out, but it was otherwise an incredible experience.
I had the unfortunate pleasure of being two to the left of Daniel Negreanu for all but two [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

I have PageRank

July 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Mwhaha. Mwhahaha. Mwhahahaha. Mwhahahahaha. etc.
Now you know: my geek laughter sounds very much like evil villain laughter.
I’ve complained a lot about being stuck in the Google sandbox — the purgatory that Google places new sites for several months to a year until Google feels like a site is established enough to be properly inducted into [...]

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Tags: Business

Thank You, Senator Stevens

July 15th, 2006 · No Comments

A month ago I wrote about the debate in Congress over Net Neutrality. While I’m still disappointed that the House of Representatives failed to pass any legislation that was favorable to Net Neutrality, I’ve been hopeful that the Senate will act differently. Judging by how often the issue has come up in the [...]

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Tags: Miscellaneous

When it rains, it rains a lot

July 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Things have been busy around here. That’s definitely a good thing, but has taken my focus off other things like getting ready for my trip West and posting more here.
Instead of waiting for me to hit the “publish” button on one of the dozen partially completed entries I have saved up, go read why [...]

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Deal of the day

July 3rd, 2006 · 2 Comments

I saw this Eyeglass World promotion on 82nd St. in Castleton yesterday, and thought it was too good to keep to myself:

In case you can’t read the sign because of the poor picture quality (hey, it was taken with a camera phone while driving by at 45mph, give me a break), it reads “BUY ONE, [...]

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Tags: Business