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I’ve made probably a half-dozen purchases from Audible.com. In the past, I’d often buy some This American Life episodes or an audio book before a long car trip, since they really help the hours and miles go by. I was never enthralled with the service. The downloading mechanisms were clunky, the DRM‘ed audio was annoying, […]

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I finished The Search, and can’t recommend it highly enough. Battelle manages to combine an entertaining history of search, complete with Stanford anecdotes about the nascence of Yahoo and Google, with insightful analysis of the possibilities and perils facing users and developers of search technologies. All of it is written at a level that won’t overwhelm […]

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I’ve recently picked up my copy of O’Reilly’s Learning UNIX for Mac OS X Panther again, and have been messing around a little bit with the command line.
Refreshing myself on a few basics left me feeling confident enough to try using Tynsoe.org’s GeekTool, an OS X system preference pane that allows you to display the […]

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