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I don’t normally post about Austin (the city I live in) but I had to point to this article in the Sunday Statesman (registration required):
Quarterly economic scorecard: Region is uniquely poised to take advantage of recovery, experts say.
A few choice quotes:
…Austin looks like a hot spot to the editors of Business 2.0 magazine, which recently [...]

Six Apart just released MovableType 3.0 (about time) and I have to say that I think it’s worth paying for for 90% of the audience that it’s aimed at (hackers and developers and people that want to ‘own’ their blogging service).
I have to applaud Six Apart for charging for MT 3.0, but the pricing structure [...]

I’m sick to my stomach. Yes, I just watched the Nick Berg video. I now feel sick to my stomach and terribly dirty. My small apologies to the Berg family.
I can’t describe the feeling.
I have several friends in the military that are in Iraq right now. I wanted us to get out [...]

I’ve had a Gmail account for about a week now (thanks to Jeremy for the invite). I haven’t received a bit of spam yet, but I also haven’t published the address until today.
That being said, I also signed up for a new hotmail account last week on the same day that I set up [...]

This is the coolest web page header design on a ‘news’ website I’ve seen in a long time.
On this page, and doubtless on the rest of the International Herald Tribune web pages, they have this really cool header that is the whole header at the top of the page, but becomes just the useful part [...]

I’m researching digital video cameras. I’m in the market for one for the wife and I, and I’m finding that figuring out which one to buy is tough. The big publisher’s guides to camcorders are useless to me, either not providing enough information, or not providing enough facts on which they base their [...]

Following the footsteps of Jeremy Zawodny, Jason Kottke, Mark Pilgrim and others, I’ve established my very own linkblog.
On it, I’ll post links that I think are interesting enough to read, but either don’t have the time or energy, or need, to write anything in depth about them.
An RSS feed is here, and the templates are [...]