Year: 2006
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Why I’m Voting for Tony Peraica for Cook County Board President
Tonight I called up the Tom Roeser show (Political Shootout on WLS 890 AM) and got on the air as the last caller. Here’s basically what I said: Then Tom Roeser asked if I was Peraica’s brother-in-law. They laughed. Then I got cut off somewhere after I said that it was “time for a change”…
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Yahoo to Open Source Their Email
Holy crap.Yahoo allows outsiders to innovate on Yahoo e-mail – Sep. 30, 2006 Officials of the world’s largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based…
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eBay Gets More Social But Leaves Out Easy Linking
A while ago eBay launched blogs because, um, everyone else has them. They’re going even further now with eBay MyWorld, which is a MySpace-y page where you can put your listings, bio, feedback, blog, reviews, guidelines, etc. It’s a great idea, and definitely a valuable set of features. The first thing I thought of when…
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Weirdest ABCNews.com Breaking News Email Ever.
Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com: Congressman Mark Foley, Republican from Florida, resigned today just hours after ABC news questioned him about a series of sexually explicit instant messages involving current and former underage male Congressional pages. Foley used the login name Maf54. Maf54: Do I make you a little horny ? Teen: A little. Maf54: Cool.…
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Open Source Emergency Response Gone Wrong:
Here’s a post from Random Acts Of Reality, a blog based in London, England, written by an E.M.T working for the London Ambulance Service. In Health Copyright, he writes of getting some training and being bulloxed by a less-than-OSER attitude: However there is a problem – the Guidelines book we should be getting is version…