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Clearly the stock market has a negative reaction t…
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Clearly the stock market has a negative reaction to the Greek government trying to do what its people voted for. How dare they?
http://t.co/Qp1xt38Rzo Loved cartoon this morning…
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Loved cartoon this morning: “It’s one thing for the Greeks to invent democracy and quite another to make use of it.”
OK, that’s better: iCloud music somehow hot turned…
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OK, that’s better: iCloud music somehow hot turned off. With it on my playlists came back.
Apple Music, it was not nice of you to delete all…
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Apple Music, it was not nice of you to delete all 63 of my playlists from my iPhone. I hope I can get them back from my phone backups.
Solution to wildly varying ping times on my home W…
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Solution to wildly varying ping times on my home WiFi network: disabling Airdrop with “sudo ifconfig awdl0 down”. WiFi now much better.
Recently switch our home network and routers from…
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Recently switch our home network and routers from Google DNS to OpenDNS. I’m amazed how much faster OpenDNS is.
Today we are declaring independence from the bamb…
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Today we are declaring independence from the bamboo in our garden—same as we did last weekend.
http://t.co/Znm4xTTRYC Did flawed technology kill…
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goo.gl/7iafWL Did flawed technology kill smooth jazz? Non-random sampling runs rampant in market research; this is just 1 instance.
In honor of Canada Day, I think we in the US shoul…
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In honor of Canada Day, I think we in the US should all try to be polite today. Come on, it’s just 1 day; we can go back to normal tomorrow.