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GenderAnalyzer guesses if the blogger is male or femaleNovember 9

And I’ve almost completely got it fooled. I like that.

GenderAnalyzer is 70% certain that my content on FriendFeed is written by a male, 75% certain that this blog is written/neglected by a male, and is neutral (with a slight preference for female) when it comes to my non-tech blog at Live Spaces. Beeyootiful!

 

via Jess Lee at FriendFeed

 

 

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iPhone email ego battlesNovember 3

My second-hand iPhone whispers seductively in my ear. He feels incomplete without a service provider. “WiFi is great, but it isn’t enough,” he laments.

My co-worker told me today that we can’t get corporate discounts on anything iPhone from AT&T, cementing, bricking, mortaring and asphalting my decision to stay away. “You don’t understand!” the iPhone cries. “I’m simply not used to working offline!”

I smirked. “That, my dear boy, is painfully evident! Let’s have a little discussion about how cached email really should work when one isn’t connected. Better yet, why don’t you just read what Nadyne Mielke has to say.”

No, that was not me checking out basic phone/data plans at the T-Mobile site a few hours ago.

 

 

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How many times did I tell you I wouldn't be wasting my money on an iPhone?October 29

Thanks to electrical issues, I haven't beem able to ride the scootercycle's for twelve whole days. I was desperate for something to occupy my mind, you know, before the devil found more work for my hands. I ended up forking over a small wad of cash to get my hands on my co-worker's 1st-gen iPhone. That's the only way I could go, since I didn't want to be locked into a terribly expensive contract with a company that doesn't even consider allowing tethering, and, while I am out of contract with Sprint, I have little desire to leave them. Yes, my carrier-less iPhone is basically an iPod Touch, but it can become a phone, if I whack my head on something hard and change my mind. Now, what shall I get into? Oh, yeah, EverNote was the FIRST app I installed!

Based on prior observations, I should at least be able to get better photographs than my Mogul puts out. Sorry, HTC, I do love you, but that means I can kindly tell you that you could have done a better job. Perhaps the CDMA version of the Touch Pro will have the quality -- and that includes decent RAM -- to get me back into a commitment. With that said, I've got some playing to do.

Dropped Your Motorcycle? Here's How to Pick it Up!August 4

I wish I'd been told about this three days ago, when I got my motorcycle. I'm delighted that my co-worker told me to hunt for this info on YouTube today, though! I wonder if they'll mention it in the motorcycle safety class I'll be taking this weekend.

I Got My Life from the InternetJuly 25

Steve Spalding asked on FriendFeed what the best thing was that the web had ever done for us. Since my internet-enabled empowerment actually predated the web, I must answer that pre-web net gave me nearly all I have today.

Through my email account and subscriptions to way too many listservs, I learned about MUDs. From a fellow MUDder (well, MOOer, actually), I learned about an awesome game called Magic: the Gathering. When my friend headed back home, I played against him on the MUD, and we would type out what cards we pulled and our actions. [Note: In those days, it was possible to know what every card did, because it was 1994, when the poorly-named Unlimited Edition could still be found in stores, the second expansion set, Antiquities, was just being released; I don't think I'd ever want to try playing someone via text these days!]. When my friend wasn't available, I found some folks on IRC, so I could play the card game with them. Eventually, I got tired of the speed of the game being limited by how fast we could type, so I found some people at a college hangout and