Some Flickr users are pretty upset over the Yahoo! requirement that all Flickr users migrate to Yahoo! accounts, some threatening to leave the service once the final deadline approaches.
Author Archives: Ron Bieber
Mr T. to reprise Clubber Lang role in Rocky 6?
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The Movie Blog reports that Mr. T. has confirmed he will be starring as Clubber Lang in the new Rocky 6 movie. Apparently, he will be a commentator. I agree with the author, that Rocky 6 is a “one too many trips to the well” movie. I think I’ll wait for video for this one.
Windows is weak: wheres the alternative?
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According to this CNET article, now is the perfect time for a Windows alternative to strike, as Longhorn is descoped and it is getting harder and harder to find a reason to actually upgrade from XP.
A Trip to the Milwaukee Zoo
Jonna’s company sponsored a trip for their employees and families to the Milwaukee Zoo. I haven’t been there since the eighth grade and enjoyed it quite a bit.
We took over 100 pictures, but all of them didn’t turn out. Unless the lighting is perfect, our camera tends to blur easy. Either the camera sucks or the photographers (which consist mostly of Kelsi, Jonna, and myself) suck out loud.
Anyway, you can see the pictures that did turn out over at the Flickr album. All in all, we had a lot of fun and got some pretty decent pictures, my favorite aside from the ones of the kids being the one shown below.
At first glance all I saw was the red type. When seen like that, it strikes one as being a little extreme.
Scientists discover possible new way to transform ordinary cells into copies of stem cells
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FlickrBar Plugin breaks Flickr in FireFox
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I saw a reference to FlickrBar on GeekNewsCentral, and I thought it looked interesting. Then I saw that the download had been removed at the request of Flickr. After some investigation, I found this thread in FlickrBugs talking about the effects the plugin had on Flickr users.
PayPal co-founder readies photo-sharing service
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How Far Would You Go To Have Your Own Business?
I found this article this morning on Yahoo! News about John Darrigo, owner and operator of the Dog-Gone-It Pet Waste Removal Service in New Hampshire.
Doing a search on Google you find a ton of businesses just like this with names like DoGPiLe Patrol, PoopButler, and MineSweepers.
I’m not sure this is a business that I would want to be in (my solution would be to not have a dog if I had the voting power), but after thinking about it for a bit, I see two big strengths about this line of business. The first is that it is definitely a job that not many people enjoy doing, and therefore if you find customers like me, you could make a killing. Secondly, there doesn’t seem to be a shortage of clever names you could come up with for a company which performs these activities.
Luckily, I’ve found this article so that I can point our kids over to it. Now we can just say that picking up the yard is prep for their future rather than just having to throw out a “because I said so”.
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Has Google Peaked?
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Has Google Peaked? – Robert Cringley discusses whether Google is as big a threat to Microsoft as everyone has been saying they are.
Cell Phone Finder – A Whole New Way to Look at Cell Phones
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Tom the Architect pointed me to the Cell Phone Finder. This is a really cool way of visualizing the selection of a cell phone!
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