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Selling a new Canon Pixma MP470

Comes free as part of a bundle with Apple, but I don’t have a use for it myself. Update: Sold, a lot faster than I expected! :) Let me add a little content to this post so it doesn’t just read like an advertisement. We’ve been using a number of printers quite happily here at…Continue Reading…

Quagmire of options

Life is a quagmire of options. I’m reading an article titled 10 Tips for College Students. I’m feeling pretty good about myself because I really understand what the author is saying. Yet this kind of focus is hard to maintain, and keeping these ideas in mind is definitely going to be helpful. Every single day,…Continue Reading…

Keeping your passwords in one place

When I read that the owner of My Money Blog keeps his passwords aggregated on one website, I was shocked. That’s putting all your eggs in one basket, I thought. If a hacker breaks into Yodlee, the service he uses to keep all his financial passwords, he’s toast! But then I read his rationalization. He…Continue Reading…

Trading a paperclip for a house

I was reading the comments on the Slashdot article about the guy who traded an unlocked iPhone for a car, and I followed a link to this Wikipedia article about one red paperclip. Kyle MacDonald, a Canadian blogger, traded his way from a single red paperclip to a house in a series of trades spanning…Continue Reading…

Grab the Latest Post from Multiple WordPress Blogs

I searched for a solution to this for hours, and ended up adapting some older code I’ve been using on my own website for years. Sometimes the best solution is the simplest one. If you use WordPress and you want to put some of your posts on your homepage, this is one way to do…Continue Reading…

CNN, please don’t turn into my mother

Laura Reeve, Daily Trojan: CNN, please don’t turn into my mother