Ra Ra Riot are a six-piece from Syracuse, NY. I recently got to see them at the Daytrotter Barnstormer III gig in Maquoketa. They are great live too.
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The Geek Lamp is lit. I had a loong evening a couple of weeks ago struggling to get my shiny new Motorola Droid (running Android 2.1) to synchronize Contacts, Calendar and Mail with my Microsoft Exchange 2007 server. Although I love the phone as a stand-alone phone, obviously for work purposes the ability to...
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Although I now proudly call Clinton home, I lived in Chicago for almost 11 years. It was the longest time I ever spent in one town in my life. (We moved around a bit when I was a kid.) And so, when people ask me where “I’m from” I ususally say, “I grew up...
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There has been and will be a lot of ink spilled (literal and virtual) regarding the meaning of the Deepwater Horizon disaster; especially what it says about our dependence on oil. But if you want to really understand it — and what it means for us — you can probably do no better than...
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Finally utterly disgusted with the sluggishness, low storage and poor application support for the BlackBerry, I bought a Motorola Droid today. I like having a real keyboard to type on and am revelling in the fact that apps are useful and easy to use. Now, must get our Exchange server patched to allow for...
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So, let’s say you run a largish corporation. You have a large workforce comprised mostly of highly-skilled people with offices all over the place. You expect to continue growing the business, but many of these people work on projects with a duration of a few months to a few years. How do you cut...
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So, can we make it official that Arizona has dethroned South Carolina as the epicenter of crazy-ass politicians in America? Director, Robert Rodriguez, (El Mariachi, Spy Kids, From Dusk Till Dawn, Sin City) pulls together an all-star cast to mess with Arizona’s new immigration law.
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Nichole Gelinas at The National Review makes a couple of good points about how markets can help price oil production externalities. But this is nowhere near a comprehensive solution, nor is it any argument against other policies designed to influence demand for oil. Full Post Gelinas makes a good point. But this is hardly...
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I’ll have some thoughts on this soon. But in the meantime, if you missed it on PBS, you should watch this. Ashford University is mentioned in here.
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Got World Cup Fever yet? Maybe this picture of a 20 foot tall Clint Dempsey will help. Dempsey plays for Fulham FC in the English Premiere League. Although they are just mid-table journeymen in what is probably the world’s toughest league, they have made an improbable run to the final of the Europa Cup....
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