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Why Apple Rejected Google Voice

Seems there’s some hatred on Apple because they bounced Google Voice from the app store (cite). What surprises me is that this is pissing off people now: seems to be spreading throughout the internet, but let me highlight this particular article, and especially this quote: I haven’t heard a single explanation for the rejection of [...]

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Online Groovy and Grails Training

One project I’ve been working on — although not the super exciting one I can’t talk about — is online training on Groovy and Grails. The idea is to offer affordable, web-based training spread out as a series of 2-hour classes. This structure should work a lot better given our economic crisis: people don’t have [...]

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Presbyterian Church (USA) Podcast

An interesting podcast, for those either within our without the PC(USA): Decently and in Order. Engaging and entertaining with deep and thoughtful analysis. It’s like the “Car Talk” of PC(USA) polity. Even those outside of the PC(USA) and outside of the church could have a lot to gain from the podcast — the issues and [...]

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Taxing Email

AOL, Yahoo To Impose Private Tax on Email This is a stupid, anti-customer plan, and I can only hope that they aren’t powerful enough to subvert the natural market economics that will teach them how stupid a plan it is to treat your customers like criminals.

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Today’s idle speculation

I’ve been watching Carl Sagan again

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