Stop whatever you're doing right now and spend the 15 minutes and watch this video. Gary drops the f-bomb a couple of times during the talk, but don't lose sight of the real message....

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I've been working on the server that's running this web site and a couple others and one thing high on the list was automating backups. If you bundle backups with hosting plans, they always seem to be fairly expensive, so I choose to use Amazon's S3 service with Jungle Disk . Jungle Disk's biggest shortcoming...

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I just installed the beta of Google Chrome and I'm checking out a couple sites in the new browser. I really like the clean look and feel and how fast the browser feels. I wonder how I'll like it in a week from now... Download Google Chrome...

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I've been thinking about building or buying a new development computer for home and have been torn between building, buying a Dell, or Mac Pro. All of those options present various pros and cons which is what kept me on the fence so long. Not any more, most of my parts have arrived, except the case,...

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Over the last couple of months I've been using Blueprint CSS framework with the web applications I'm working on. I looked at several CSS frameworks, but this one seems the best fit for my needs and the more I use it, the more I love it. Here are some of the resources that I've used when learning about...

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I quickly implemented Gravatars in GraffitiCMS today. The only issue I had was due to my migration from dasBlog. During the conversion, comments that were migrated didn't have the commenters IP Address migrated as well. In my post.view file for Graffiti, I added the following code: # if ($comment.IPAddress...

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Upgrading to iPhone's 2.0 Firmware Yesterday morning Steve Rubel asked on Twitter if anyone spotted the iPhone firmware in the wild . Roughly 20 minutes later, he posts a link on FriendFeed, iPhone 2.0 Firmware (5A347) Available Early - Mac Rumors . (Note: if you are into social media and you're not...

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Joanna purchased a new MacBook Air several weeks ago and she decided that instead of using Boot Camp to run Windows, she'd use VMware Fusion. At some point, I think right after installing Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Update stopped installing patches and would give an error message saying that...

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"Documentation is like sex. When it's good, that's great. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing. None at all though..." Written by Linda Eskin on Twitter .

While watching Wimbledon tonight, I saw the following commercial and knew I had to find it. Rhys Darby stars as Murray in the HBO comedy Flight of the Conchords . I can't wait for FotC season two later this year. I'll leave you with one of my clips from season one....

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