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Stolen bike – Reward Offered
Update: my bike was found at a pawn shop this weekend. I’m currently working with the police department to recover the bike.
Yesterday my bike went missing downtown; if you can find it, there’s a cash reward.
The bike was taken from the racks on the east side of the UP building in downtown Omaha. Here’s a [...]
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I’m a billionaire
It’s all about the benjamins.
And by benjamins, I mean Mugabea-ns.
A coworker’s pastor was able to acquire a couple of these Zimbabwean bank notes and has been distributing them like wallpaper. Wait, I can’t use that metaphor anymore because it’s actually happening.
It’s a depressing story, but you can find cocktail chatter here. Like how the same [...]
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You’ve probably heard about (or signed up with) Mint, the startup which promises to liberate us all from the Quickens of the world and revolutionize personal finance. It’s gotten quite a few high-profile positive reviews.
Mint has an incredibly hard sell. Before handing over all of your financial information to a startup run by [...]
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Tags: mint, security
So Scott Adams has decided to cut down on his blogging, because he doesn’t like losing money being misunderstood:
Every blog post reduced my income, even if 90% of the readers loved it. And a startling number of readers couldn’t tell when I was serious or kidding, so most of the negative reactions were based on [...]
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Let’s say you had a wealth of information in a Google spreadsheet that you wanted to access using Javascript. And let’s say you also forgot you could export the doc as a .csv file (or in my case, wanted to try your hand at javascript screen scraping). What’s a super-simple way you could [...]
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Tags: javascript, prototype
Emerging
DSC_0044.JPG, originally uploaded by orphum.
I’m emerging out from the ethereal and starting up a blog for several reasons, most of which will only be important if you have interests similar to mine, or happen to know me.
Using my frighteningly accurate predictive faculties, I know you probably wouldn’t be coming here unless one these [...]
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