Month: October 2008

  • Back up your data today – even in the cloud

    The cloud is wonderful. Google Apps, Twitter, Gmail, etc. It’s a great way of making sure everything you have is available wherever you are. That said, could there ever come a day when Google’s apps aren’t available to you? It’s possible. If you have stored anything of value in the cloud, make sure you have

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  • The war against despair is up to you, new media

    It has become depressingly apparent that no leadership, no guidance, no inspiration will be forthcoming from any of the traditional sources in our society. Our politicians are locked in partisan bickering with each other, fighting like junkyard dogs over scraps. Our financial leaders are in a tailspin. Our heroes are largely fictional now at best.

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  • Enduring darkness

    I’ve been watching our economy since starting the Financial Aid Podcast 3 1/2 years ago. In that time, I’ve seen the first cracks form in it, spreading and ultimately bringing us to where we are today. A few folks have used the labels visionary or seer, which is most kind of them. Here’s what I

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  • The never ending war

    “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this

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  • 11 years on the path, still going

    11 years on the path, still going Over the weekend, I had the opportunity and privilege to attend New England Warrior Camp (NEWC) 2008, the 11th year of the event. For those not involved in the martial arts, NEWC is a 3 day, 2 night seminar that gets together practitioners of the Bujinkan ninjutsu family

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  • Why Pixelated is brilliant and wrong

    Mitch Joel created a great meme over the weekend – Pixelated, the 100% virtual online conference, assembled from video footage of conferences past. Since then, lots of folks have created their own riffs on this idea. It’s brilliant and gets the idea of conferences wrong. Conferences aren’t about sessions, talking heads, and lecture format, which

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  • Shorting a stock, 2.0 style

    Early this morning, someone filed a CNN iReport (citizen generated content) saying that Apple (ticker: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs had a massive heart attack. Apple’s stock immediately dropped 5%. Apple PR responded to mainstream media inquiries denying the rumor, that Jobs was perfectly fine. (hat tip to the Unofficial Apple Weblog for breaking it on

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  • Epic Credit Card

    Yes, there’s a World of Warcraft Credit Card. With game time. Get it at StudentPlatinum.com/warcraft. Full Disclosure: It’s through work, which means I earn a very small amount of money for each new applicant. More important, I don’t get any mats or a zhevra, but it’s still neat, and I’d talk about it even if

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  • Fantastic movie trailer

    “It has been said, that in the end of all things, we would find a new beginning.” “But as the shadow once again crawls across our world, and the stench of terror drifts upon a bitter wind, the people prayed for strength and guidance-” “They should pray for the mercy of a swift death; For

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