ThinkFree Viewer For WordPress

April 6, 2007

Okay, this is pretty nifty. ThinkFree is a free, web-based alternative to Microsoft Office. So you can create documents compatible with Microsoft’s Powerpoint, Word, Excel. And now, thanks to the collaboration between ThinkFree and WordPress, bloggers like me can embed these type of documents in their blog via a plugin — for free! With this [...]

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MyBlogLoggers: Know It, Embrace It

April 5, 2007

If MyBlogLog were a coffee shop, then MyBlogLoggers.com would be the favorite table you’d sit at each time you visit. This hangout is where the MyBlogLog community can gather round to be a little more interactive than posting messages to each other via the “Leave a message” feature MyBlogLog offers. Nothing wrong with that, just [...]

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Foreign Spam Still Stinks As Bad As Domestic

April 4, 2007

Okay, what is it about this latest round of spam attacks? The ones with all the Chinese characters? Gmail is known for doing a pretty good job at isolating spam before it rests in your inbox, but I’m getting this stuff by the droves everyday. (Note to Gmail: I don’t speak Chinese, so I’m fine [...]

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30,000 Blogs Will Speak As One

April 2, 2007

Queue the music; queue the movie-trailer guy. Take 1 in 3-2-1: “One day, in a world where 30,000 bloggers reign over their kingdoms, they will stand united as one voice. They will rise up and shout their voices like trumpets across the land, delivering news to ears that once knew simpler times…” Okay, cut! That [...]

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Google Has Done It Again

April 1, 2007

It started with GooglePaper. I thought that was an interesting direction for them to take, but Google is known for making advancements in so many things anyway. I figured I read up on it later. And then this morning I saw their new free (in beta) release of wireless broadband access, Google TiSp. At first [...]

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How Have We Allowed Ourselves To Come To This?

April 1, 2007

PARIS, TEXAS – Perhaps you’ve already heard about the 14-year-old black student, Shaquanda Cotton, who pushed a 58-year-old hall monitor out of the way. She received a 7-year sentence in prison for the act. Seven years! Apparently, such upside-down justice is commonplace for the city of Paris. A 19-year-old white teenager was convicted of killing [...]

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