Daily Archives: April 15, 2005

Does Google Suck at RSS?

Dave doesn’t like the way Google handles RSS, compared to Yahoo and MSN. That may be true, but we remain muy impresionado with the new satelite photo map service. You can see your own house! (go to http://maps.google.com/ and click … Continue reading

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Reaching the Secret Settings in Firefox

How many of the rest of you Firefox users never knew about all of the ‘secret’ configurable controls you can access via the about:config URL? There’s all sorts of cool stuff you can do, just by typing about:config in the … Continue reading

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Supergeeks – Tiger OS Developer Trading Cards

Collect the Entire Set from CodeMonkeys

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Dowbrigade.com Returns

After a lapse of over two months, one it took me to become aware of the problem and another it took me to do something about it, our own personal domain, dowbrigade.com, is back up and running. As well as … Continue reading

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Gray Lady Stalls, Globe Takes a Seat

NEW YORK Many in the industry are dreading the upcoming Fas-Fax report, and early numbers are slowly starting to emerge. Today came word that The Boston Globe is expecting steep overall circulation declines for the six-month period ending March 2005 … Continue reading

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The Incredible Shrinking State

Suffolk County lost 1.5 percent of its residents between July 1, 2003, and July 1, 2004, the steepest decline of any county in southern New England and the third consecutive year the county’s population dropped, according to US Census Bureau … Continue reading

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