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Harrods Sale Ends Today
I read there are crazy deals at the end of the sales at Harrods. I guess Sherry and I will have to wait til Jan ‘06 to shop there again…

Google files for RSS ads patent

Apple recruiting Sony VAIO engineers to build the first Intel PowerBook?
Hmm… I worked on laptops at Dell, too bad Dell laptops suck… Designing PowerBooks would be a cool job.

This is a great guide, I ordered my list of feeds and it definitely helped.
Productivity Tips For Avid Blog Readers
How to get the most of your blog reading
• Group your feeds by order of importance. You know, like “Must Read”, “Not So Important”, etc. This helps so much. If you group things by topic, re-group them [...]

For no particular reason I took some pics of my office with my phone and posted them up at my snapshots gallery. It’s nice to have a real office with a real door.
Here’s one:

Why I Will Never Have A Girlfriend — nothingisreal.com
Another del.icio.us find.

Monster works pretty well, I must say. I updated my resume and made it active just for kicks ( ), after a week or so, I get more than 10 inquiries per day. I had to go in to disable my profile.

This is great, LOL!!!
Microsoft “Genuine Advantage” cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck=’all’:
Cory Doctorow:
AV sez, “This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called ‘Genuine Advantage.’ It was cracked within 24 hours.”
Before [...]

This pretty damn cool… Most of us won’t need the installing Ruby or MySQL on Windoze part, but the rest was interesting… ONLamp.com: Rolling with Ruby on Rails

When your execs start talking about “synergy” (or any other word in the Bullshit Bingo game), instead of actual profits in earning reports, it gets scary… and now a few mid to 1st line managers are talking about “synergy” for their ‘lil pet project… LOL…