Archive for the ‘Serendipity’ Category

T-Mobile Ge 1

Today’s lesson is a look into phonetic spelling, and the ramifications of including those in your posts! You may notice that the title of this post, “T-Mobile Ge 1″ is meant to refer to the HTC T-Mobile G1 (Android) phone, but the “G” is spelled phonetically. I decided to do this upon a discovery using [...]

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Zune 30GB Frozen at Midnight, December 31, 2008

Welcome to the Zunicide.

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Gas – Cash + Receipt = Less Hungry

Jack in the Box is giving you two free tacos on Thursday, June 26th, 2008 when you bring in any gas receipt.

The fine print says “2 Free Tacos with valid gas receipt.” Not much to say what’s valid, though. Does it have to be a receipt dated June 26? Dunno.
Go get a gallon and go [...]

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SPAM Clogs the Tubes [Akismet Stats]

There’s a lot of controversy going on all over the Internet and the real world over the massive use of peer-to-peer technology (P2P), and it’s legitimate and illegitimate implications. Namely, the massive amount of bandwidth P2P communications consume. Frankly, I believe the ISPs are blaming P2P users for using the available bandwidth on the network [...]

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Flickr Will Soon Host Videos

I’m not sure how this caught my eye, but somehow I ended up on the Flickr blog on a post announcing that Flickr will be adding a video hosting service to their arsenal. Immediately, I thought “Well, there goes the neighborhood,” as Flickr would only join the ranks of every other video sharing service [...]

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I Must Give Credit Where It’s Due [Hat Tip]

I’d like to tell you that idea for the domain name and title of this blog was entirely the result of my own creativity and brain power, but, as I’m sure you’ve assumed from the title of this post, it was not.
Actually, to confess, I’m not very creative. This isn’t to say that I steal [...]

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The Meaning of Serendipity [And Discovery]

The best thing about my discovery of the meaning of the word “Serendipity” is that is was serendipitous in nature. While looking for the full dictionary / encyclopedic meaning of “discovery” to provide more description for this site, I found that discovery is very similar to serendipity but their meanings differ in how the thing [...]

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