Why I don't subscribe to Netflix

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Do you use Netflix? Did you ever use Netflix? I did and ended up cancelling after a few months. The problem was, I didn't want to dedicate 2 hours of my time to watching a movie. 200 hours/month or more of time surfing the net was OK but hey …

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Neat article on the importance of cash flow

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My Great Lesson in Cash Flow is a nice article on the importance of cash flow in a start up. No deep lessons but just emphasizing that you have to watch the cash, watch the cash, watch the cash ...

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Top 10 unintentionally worst URLs

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It's tough coming up with a decent domain name - all the good ones are taken. But you have to wonder what some people were thinking when they came up with these domain names:

  • Who Represents? - www.whorepresents.com
  • Pen Island - www.penisland.com

and 8 more worst company urls

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Jobster and its slightly ominous title for a jobs site

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Pete Cashmore of Mashable writes that Jobster has relaunched as a social networking site for job seeking. Theory is that you can connect with people and add faves. You can add tags to other users, which has interesting implications: who's going to be the first to be labeled "brown noser …

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Neat extension for revealing FireFox passwords

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I love how easy FireFox makes it to enter passwords and forget them. But sometimes it turns out to be a problem when I need to remember them. Like when I'm using a different computer or want to change my password.

Today, I found Unhide Passwords, a FF extension that …

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Rose Festival Time ... and people are being jerks.

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As a native Portlander, there's a little bit of a thrill every time the Rose Festival starts. Every June, it's a celebration of living in Portland.

There are 3 parades but the Grand Floral Parade is the big one. It's a Portland tradition that people tape out space on the …

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Great post on web design - Yahoo vs Google

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Really liked the article Is Google Badly Designed? on Google Blogoscoped. He talks about the design considerations with Yahoo and Google and their home pages.

I thought it was interesting that Google was viewed as "friendly" because of its simplicity. Clearly Yahoo puts a lot of information on its page …

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Changes in home pages for Google & Yahoo

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Just ran across two articles showing the graphical changes to the home pages - www.yahoo.com for Yahoo and www.google.com for Google - over the past few years.
It's neat to see this. One of the things that I find personally frustrating about the real world is driving past …

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Mozy - great free online backup for XP

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Found a reference to Mozy in PC Magazine. If you are looking to backup a small amount of files - 2GB or less - it's absolutely free. Even at 20GB, it's only $40/year. That's much cheaper than the competition.

They do require you to get a weekly newsletter that I bet …

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Complicated government? Some business interests want it.

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Lawrence Lessig has a fascinating article on how the State of California tried to simplify preparing taxes. It used payroll information to do a "ReadyReturn" that could be just signed and returned. Or they could use the info on it to make their own return.

Of course, the tax preparation …

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