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For those of you who know me really well, you’ll know why I love this! 😀

I’ve had a few friends tell me that Gmail was inaccessible from where they were… it could be a network problem, or filtering, or a policy issue.

Here are some ways to get around the problem…

How to access Gmail when it is blocked at work or school

A buddy sent me this vdeo…and its really well done… it walks you down the path of how Web 2.0 came to be…

So you love Google Calendar, huh?

And you also love Outlook/Exchange, too?

And you also have your smartphone synced with your Outlook/Exchange all the time?

But you’d like to integreate Google Calendar with all of that as well?

Well – here ya go! (P.S. – its completely FREE)

Incorporate Google Calendar Into Outlook

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Ouch!

In Texas, 14,728 new foreclosure filings were reported over the course of January — the highest number of new foreclosures posted by any state in the United States, according to RealtyTrac.

Texas takes a top spot in January foreclosure report

All about the iWorld!

The last time I was at the gym with my usual group of friends, someone spoke of a tiny “apartment” that was for sale in London that was the size of a closet…

Look what £170,000 can buy you
A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for £170,000 in London’s upmarket Chelsea.

‘Table-sized flat’ for £170,000

During the conversation it was unclear how anyone could possibly live in something so small… but it seems that its actually possible!

Simple Simon used SketchUp to draw up plans for a renovation of the place that would render it habitable. His ideas are pretty clever

Plan for a an 11′ x 7′ flat

I love datacenter’s… 😀

CNET’s Veronica Belmont toured the cutting-edge data center at Lucasfilm in San Francisco. From Web sites to e-mail to graphic rendering, all the bytes pass through here at this high-tech movie production company.

When a dozen petabytes is not enough

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I’m sure lots of you out there love NPR and PBS…. 🙂

President Bush just proposed drastic cuts to NPR and PBS. We’ve stopped similar cuts in the past, but enough is enough: With the new Congress, we can make sure this never happens again. Sign this petition to Congress

Save NPR and PBS once and for all

Fascinating math trick!

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Bad habits? nah…. 🙂

Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX command line efficiency — and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up.

Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits

Surprisingly funny interview of Bill Gates on the Daily Show…

Update: This video is no longer available due to this:

Entertainment conglomerate Viacom has demanded that YouTube and Google Video remove more than 100,000 unauthorized clips of its video content, the company said in a statement Friday.

Viacom demands Google, YouTube to pull 100,000 clips

Google Maps for PocketPC has finally been released!

Visit www.google.com/gmm on your mobile web browser to download it!

Whats amazing is how fast it is… Clearly, MSFT’s Virtual Earth Mobile isn’t as good.

It was a pretty easy set up and seems to work pretty well… now, phones that showed only 1 or 2 bars are now showing 3 or 4 bars… we’ll see if the call quality improves as we use it over time.

Thanks Rakesh! 😀

Maybe its time for a new desk…

Er… I mean… bed?

Ergopod 500

So you can eat less… or work-out… or do both! And it all works! 😀

Eating less and exercising more are equally good at helping take off the pounds, U.S. researchers said on Friday in a study that challenges many of the popular tenets of the multibillion dollar diet and fitness industry.

Diet, exercise take off equal pounds, study finds

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Newly built homes aren’t selling…

Sales of new homes plunged in 2006 by the largest amount in 16 years as the nation’s housing industry suffered through a sharp contraction after five boom years

Sales of new homes plummet in 2006

And the other side…

While speculators and flippers in places such as Boston and San Diego are running for cover, in other parts of the country they are basking in robust residential sales.

Homes are still hot in some places

Fascinating stuff…

The conventional wisdom is that we choose friends because of who they are. But it turns out that we actually love them because of the way they support who we are

Friendship: The Laws of Attraction

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One of the companies I’ve been helping with is a an awesome group out in Chicago called Inventables. We met a couple of years back at TED, and ever since we’ve been talking regularly, and I was invited to be on a board for them as well.

Everytime I see them and talk to them I get excited – they have some really great stuff over there. Even their customer list is impressive!

Here’s a short clip from NBC: Art Gets His Gadget On