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I bought my Canon 24-70/2.8L from Beach Camera years ago, they just sent me an email to tell me the great prices they got on Nikon equipments.

btw, check out FAIL Blog if you haven’t seen it.

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I think I’ve fixed the problems, it had to do with using a UL in the About widget block in the sidebar, I don’t have IE to test it now, but it looks better in Net Renderer now.

Monsieur Saint Laurent died today, he was truly an icon.

I’m a long time reader of Umair’s blogs, it was quite a surprise to see that he mentioned SuperFuture! Hell yeah! I wonder if he posts his fits!

My favorite example is the What Are You Wearing Today thread at Superfuture, a fashion microcommunity (sorry for the unwanted attention, guys). It’s literally thousands of pages of connected consumers posing, checking each other out, and telling each other if cool brands actually make them cool – or not.

Superfuture is the small tip of a very large iceberg: the massive defection to hundreds of thousands of social networks and microcommunities, where connected consumers endlessly discuss, debate, and validate brands and their promises.

[From The Shrinking Advantage of Brands - Harvard Business Online's Umair Haque]

If you view this blog with IE, the layout is messed up, I know this. It looks great in Firefox 2 and 3, Flock, and Safari3. So try one of those. When I get time I will try to fix it. This is weird coz I am using pretty much the standard skittlish theme as-in.

Facebook IM never worked right for me in Adium, I just built the latest from Subversion and now it’s working flawlessly, it’s really easy to build from their latest if you have Xcode installed. To save you some time I’ve uploaded my adium.app to MediaFire:

Updated 6/20/08: http://www.mediafire.com/?i3tngvzvtng

I don’t blog as often as I did, I think much of it has to do with other services I am using now, they kindda replace having to blog about stuff I find online. And I don’t really have time to publish original content. If you’re interested, you can subscribe to these:

• Twitter
• Google Reader shared items
• del.icio.us, already “burned” with this blog’s RSS feed with Feedburner
• FriendFeed,I linked my accounts there, but don’t really use it. It also gets redundant, like I included my Tumblr and Flickr there, but I already included my Flickr on my Tumblog, so you get repeated content at times. Also my Twitterrific updates my twitter statuses to Adium, and the Twitter Facebook app updates my status on Facebook, so most of the times my Facebook, GTalk, and Twitter statuses are the same.
• Too many others to list, so check my FriendFeed

If you look at my blog in your browser, you might notice subtle styling changes. I had the default stylesheet since I changed the theme, but some things never looked right, so I messed with it with Firebug and TextMate and now it’s a little bit better. Like now the code blocks get smaller font-size and they won’t overrun the div.

Facebook just confirmed that their chat uses Jabber/XMPP, a few days back Adium added support for Facebook chat, you can compile it from their source on SVN, someone did that and posted a nightly build so you can just install that too.

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I’m using it now but it seems to me that I have to keep myself login to the chat in my browser for it to work.