Pixel Pete on September 29th, 2008

We all know there’s a lot of pretty lame content on youTube. It’s free after all and it’s the biggest portal for sharing video.

The video above is by Glenda Watson Hyatt–a blogger who uses Wordpress.
I’m excited that my proposal to teach this blogging platform has been accepted by UC Riverside’s Extension Center. More about [...]

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Pixel Pete on August 13th, 2008

I’m probably one of those who write more than I should in an email. I probably think I have more to say.
Number 1 on my list of pet peeves as it relates to email is the number of forwarded jokes where the sender hasn’t taken the trouble to delete the number of recipients. Now every [...]

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I couldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it with my own eyes. The Los Angeles Times actually ran a photograph on its A-1 cover from a dubious source.
And I thought only Malaysian newspapers were capable of such questionable standards in judgement.. So it appears newspapers in this country are not incapable of horrible [...]

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admin on July 17th, 2008

If you don’t think privacy as we know it is dead, guess again. When I worked at the newspaper, the editorial department’s library had a few volumes of a strange directory called the criss cross.
These directories were bound volumes of a huge database of addresses and phone numbers. They were arranged by addresses, residential and [...]

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