Can't buy a regular hamburger at McDonald's anymore?

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Super-Sizing Your Meal Costs More Than You Think talks about the hidden costs of super-sizing. "Once on the lips, forever on the hips" or something like that.

I stopped off at McDonald's to grab lunch for my daughter Charlie and myself as we drove out to Nana Sue's. To my …

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Fitness Hacks for Geeks

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Not quite sure how I ran across Fitness Hacks for Geeks but it's a very nice article about some of the options for making it easier to exercise.

I'm lucky enough to live a few blocks away from Mt. Tabor Park. It's notable for being the only extinct volcano within …

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Good summary of what Google Base means to vertical web sites

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Bill Burnham has a nice summary of what Google Base in general and the real estate section in particular might mean for vertical web sites like Trulia.

It's not a lot of fun competing in a section where Google is competing. I can vouch for that first hand.

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Photoshop Manipulation of Models

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David Pogue of the New York Times writes about how images are manipulated with Photoshop.

As a dad with 2 young daughters, I find this kind of thing appalling. The images in magazines are what some women (and men) compare themselves to. How in the world can they justify this …

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How City of Portland could have bought PGE

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The City Council of Portland was very interested in buying Portland General Electric from what was left of Enron. Rate cuts of 10% or more were talked about.

With amazing 20-20 hindsight, it's now obvious what the City should have done: Keep PGE's rates the same!

Keeping them the same …

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Nice summary of online music options

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TechCrunch has a nice summary of online music services.

I've been pretty happy with the Yahoo Music service. I've got boxes of CDs that I need to rip some day so I often find myself using the Yahoo service to listen to songs that I have already ... somewhere in a …

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Library use of Linux workstations

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Ran across a reference to libraries using Open Source programs like Linux and Open Office. Neat.

Useful, the program that the library uses, sounds neat but it has the lame "we won't tell you the price" approach typical of many companies. At least Fonality sort of tells you a price …

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Windows XP How to move your My Documents

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I've been looking at re-arranging the partitions on my Sony VAIO desktop. They gave me a 15GB C: and a 100GB D: and even with installing everything I could to D:, it was still getting tighter and tighter. Looked at some fairly scary Linux-based partition shrinking software. Problem is that …

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Bill Gross rips US economy

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Bill Gross is the legendary bond analyst/trader at PIMCO. He has strong words about the Economic Report of the President and the state of the US economy.

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anyone out there who's much interested in trying to solve the problem. We can't keep spending …

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Microsoft, I don't want macros

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I downloaded something written in Word for my wife, who's a Mac user, and printed it for her. Now, every time I open Microsoft Word, I get an unintelligble message about

"The function you are attempting to run contains macros or content that requires macro language support. When this software …

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