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Erase it all

I sometimes wish I could just delete everything I’ve posted here and make a better effort at providing interesting content.

I also wish Tumblr would let me have a home screen that I could manage apart from my “content” with links to my articles and pages…then of course they’d be turning Tumblr into a CMS rather than a tumble log service. I guess I’ll have to continue to keep my landing pages at SpiteShow.com.

Still though…

Marco.org: A Verizon reality check »

It’s easy to glorify Verizon as an iPhone owner, because AT&T is so awful. But Verizon sucks, too — just in different ways, for the most part.

I’ve been a Verizon Wireless customer since 2004: phones for the first 4 years, and data via tethering and EVDO modems for the entire time. I recently…

Most things are great so far. The reward we’ve reaped as a society for shoving greenbacks into Apple’s bank account for the last decade is that we have much better stuff now. It’s the exact opposite effect we got from making Microsoft big.

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—	Mike Industries: A good problem to have (via marco)

Really?

I seriously can’t find Senior PHP developers. I’ve never taken more than four weeks to find a new developer, but for some reason we just can’t find someone we like for the position.

If by some magical chance I get on the Tumblr radar and you see this and you are or know a PHP developer local to Northern Jersey (10minute train ride out of NY Penn) get in touch.

eFashionSolutions.com is an ecommerce company with a relaxed environment and some cool projects about to start. You just need to bring to the table: PHP5, MySQL, MVC, OOP, JavaScript and some ecommerce experience is a major plus.

Help!

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

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—	Sexus, Henry Miller. 1949. via Airwalker. (via tlvx, rememo)

Someone has it backwards — it is HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and H.264 (all supported by the iPhone and iPad) that are open and standard, while Adobe’s Flash is closed and proprietary.

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—	Trudy Miller, Apple spokeswoman (via davidkaneda) (via david)

Organizers said Thursday’s rallies were more numerous and generally larger than last year’s. But the gatherings also illustrated the conflicting aims and strategies that have sprung up within the movement, which is now made up of hundreds of local groups working under a dizzying array of names.

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—	WSJ I’m all for people voicing their opinions - no matter how stupid - but I love how some of these ‘tea party’ folk are allowing their vision to be taken from them and turned into political forums for Politicians running for office. That and how they can’t keep their shit together.

Computers

maniacalrage:

Someone at a bar last weekend said to me, after asking for software advice, “I refuse to use a crApple.”

I asked why—ignoring the “crApple” bit—which I shouldn’t have done, because when someone says something that ridiculous it isn’t worth talking more about their computer habits. But I’m a glutton for punishment. He said, “Because it only has one mouse button.”

I laughed hard for about 15 seconds and then said something along the lines of “go fuck yourself.”