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I fear RSI the way major league pitchers fear torn elbow ligaments. Paul Bissex has discovered a neat little application that monitors your keyboard and mouse usage and lets you know when you could use a break called AntiRSI. I’m going to give it a shot.

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BetaNews reports that Yahoo and MSN are going to announce plans to provide interopability between their instant messenger networks. It remains to be seen whether this is a step toward the one true goal of joining all of the major instant messaging networks. Hopefully this is the first step in an industry-wide move toward interoperability [...]

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The window for filing for assistance from FEMA after a disaster is 60 days, which certainly doesn’t seem like enough time for the residents of New Orleans who haven’t even been back to see their homes since they evacuated initially. The Center for American Progress has launched extendthedeadline.org to help people to petition FEMA to [...]

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Could this be the reason why Netflix has done so well and Blockbuster has done so poorly?

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I just read that at one time, Blockbuster could have bought out NetFlix for $50 million. They chose to do a deal with Enron to distribute video via broadband instead.

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Not sure what to post about the earthquake in south Asia over the weekend. Natural disasters are certainly fresh on my mind, as I just received pictures of fallen trees laying on top of the house where I grew up. As horrible as Katrina and Rita were, these earthquakes were worse. The papers are reporting [...]

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The Business 2.0 weblog has a recap of Sergey Brin’s talk at the Web 2.0 conference. Here’s my favorite quote:

The No. 1 factor that contributed to our success over the past seven years is luck.

One of the biggest mistakes people make in assessing their success or failure is discounting the effect of luck. [...]

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Jeremy Zawodny has a great post explaining why Oracle’s acquisition of Innobase Oy is a huge issue for MySQL and MySQL customers. Innobase provides the InnoDB storage engine for MySQL. It’s the one that supports foreign keys, transactions, and all that stuff that made MySQL a useful option for real applications. I use MySQL pretty [...]

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Tristal Louis has an interesting post looking at the flow Weblogs, Inc generates in relation to how much AOL paid for them, coming up with a dollar value for each inbound link. The analysis is fascinating and does nothing to disabuse me of the notion that hard cash is being spent on vapor already … [...]

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One interesting aspect of the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court is all of the reading of tea leaves going on to see where she stands with regard to various litmus tests. Right wingers want a pro-life judge who is opposed to gay rights. Liberals want someone who’s as liberal as possible given [...]

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