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I hate having a cold in the summer. This is my second one in a month, and I’m sure it’s some sort of flu: Headaches, body aches, sore throat, fever, congestion, ugh…
One thing I’ve been able to learn while I’ve stayed home the past two days (I want to get better faster and make [...]

A buddy of mine is selling his silver iPod mini on eBay… bidding ends Monday afternoon. If you’ve been looking for one and want to score it at a great price, take a look.

Since everyone else has a published list of their favorite software for OS X, I figured I’d post mine:

BBEdit - A truly fantastic text-only editor. Extremely powerful and yet also very simple. (you can still download the old free “lite” version if you don’t want to pay for it, but if you find [...]

MacMinute has a picture of the new iPods from Newsweek, which they expect to be introduced this coming week.
update: Here’s a link to the actual cover story in Newsweek [hat tip to MacRumors.com's forums]. And here is an article covering the specs.

I’ve got a lot of RSS feeds (518) in NetNewsWire. I’ve got so many RSS feeds in NNW that it’s made reading RSS feeds unbearable lately… you see, I only open NNW once a day (usually around 10:00 at night) and try to read all of my feeds before I doze off at night… [...]

I hope this helps you get in the mood on Friday:
Its just one of those days When you don’t wanna wake up Everything is fucked Everybody sucks You don’t really know why But want to justify Rippin’ someone’s head off No human contact And if you interact Your life is on contract Your best bet [...]

I got this email today from a professional marketing group (emphasis mine):
Dear Marketer,
Please accept our invitation to participate in a short web survey for the American Marketing Association. As a valued member of the industry, we would like your opinions about ways to reach more marketers and increase our membership. Your answers will [...]

From wired.com:
Did you hear the one about the programmer who outsourced his own job? I read about it on Slashdot.org, the “news for nerds” Web site. A pseudonymous poster wrote, “About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12,000 to do the job I get paid [...]

Back when I was in the Army, I got a little blue book that was printed by the military for distribution at the U.S. Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia. I haven’t read the book in over a year, but, when I was reading it daily (generally when I was in the field), [...]