Author: DXO
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Backpackit Golden Ticket
So anyway today I got a Golden Ticket to preview Backpackit. Basically, it provides just the right amount of structure to normally unstructured (notes in your email account; somewhere) or overly structured (things in your company’s sales/ CRM tool, after drilling through nine screens to get a phone number) information. Brilliant. More review to come.
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A Crucial Window for Iraq: 15 Weeks to Pull Together
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: April 29, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 28 – It was a moment for which Iraqis had yearned for generations: parliamentary approval of a government with a mandate won at the ballot box. For Shiites, especially, Thursday’s vote was a moment in history: for generations, going back to Ottoman imperial rule…
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Video Appears to Show Insurgents Kill a Downed Pilot
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: April 23, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 22 – The man in the dark blue flight suit lay face-up in the tall scrub grass looking up nervously at the video camera. Above him stood men with Kalashnikov rifles who had tracked him down to the only cover near where his helicopter…
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Seen From Afar on the Blue Line
Circa 5:40 PM, Wednesday, April 13, 2005 He moved through the train like a mouse doused in Tabasco might travel through a snake—-the skin of the train-people bulged and parted for him, with scrunched faces. He had the floppy style of a late-middle aged businessmanwho had gotten drunk all afternoon and was now trying to…
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Papal Choice SMS Notification Signup
It’s been widely reported that the Vatican used SMS to notify journalists of the Pope’s death. But what about the rest of us? It’s just not that interesting that the Vatican sent a message out to the people they were going to tell anyway just a few minutes later. The interesting thing would be if…