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ARGH. Teh innertubes, they do nothing!
- I can't use PayPal at Amazon.
- I can use PayPal at Barnes and Nobles.
- Barnes and Nobels has only private wishlists.
- Amazon has public wishlists.
- Back to step one.
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You can't run a country like a business.
Of course you can:
And if you say to me, “But you killed all those jobs!” - well, that’s just not true. The government stopped employing people in those jobs, but the need for the jobs didn’t disappear. I visited some of the forestry workers some months after they’d lost their government jobs, and they were quite happy. They told me that they were ( Read more... ) -
Ruby Community: Ninjas, COGS, Crack, oh my.
Several new frameworks to make life easier were announced today:
The Rails killer has been announced: Ruby on Crack makes it even easier to bring web apps online.
SQL on Rails aims to simplify the common Model-View-Controller pattern, and place the developer safely into the controller's seat again. An O'Reilly book has already been published ( Read more... ) -
Gotta love ATi's sense of humor.
Because that my video drivers decided to quit today has to be a joke, right? Right? -
The irony is killing me..
Upto 47% of software used by Sony BMG could be pirated.
Well, not really, but they got cought in the act of pirating software.
How did they get caught in that act? Well, stupidity, really: They called the support, and supplied a fake license key.
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Draw your own conclusions:
A StarNow ad:
A national newspaper wants your story and will pay hundreds of pounds to the right person.
Write a few lines about how computer games turned you to crime and if it's something we like, we'll call you straight back.
Payment details: paid role
Created: 27 March 2008
Applications accepted for at least another month
Application ( Read more... ) -
Amazon lost a lot of possible sales.
Thanks to their retarded widgets on teh European side of the operation (behold the abomination that Amazon widgets are), I won't be able to put DVDs on my wish list, since I'll have to use amazon.com's Wish list to have it conveniently available ( Read more... ) -
Something I don't understand..
Why, in God's name, do I have to maintain two wish lists on Amazon? One for .com and one for .de, even though I can log in with my amazon.de credentials on amazon.com ( Read more... ) -
T minus 21 hours
No, not the Space Shuttle flight; mine ( Read more... )