Reason #3,939,467 as to why you shouldn't look for love on Craig's List:

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I'm finally getting the hang of this Twitter thing, though it's taken me a while, and of course I've picked the exact moment that the system starts having technical difficulties to do it.

Still, if you're on Twitter, feel free to add me (bgluckman) and I'll do the same in return.

Well, the saga's ended, "The Claw" (as the thief is now known) has been arrested, and the car returned to its rightful owner, albeit with a lot of extra mud on the back. Best part? Roughly 20 guys from the Beyond.CA forum were there to videotape it all and post it to YouTube.

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In case you really didn't want to work today, I offer you this:

• Last night, a super-rare (as in, one of nine such cars in all of North America) Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R got stolen in Calgary from a dealership by an amatuer auto thief using false ID; the dealership then posted information about the car on a local car enthusiast forum.
  
  
• A forum member ( Read more... )

Since Friday, I've apparently received a little over 400 messages to my work account. Of those, all but roughly 10 are spam. I've been here since 8:20, and have done nothing except download email, and that's still going. Is it so hard to get a spam filter on our corporate email server?

In response to urbanbohemian's announced plan to only post content over at his regular blog from now on, I decided it was time to set up a blog feed reader. Being as I generally read blogs at the office (I mean, c'mon, you do too--and besides, some are work-related), I decided to use Outlook and intraVnews, which seems to be popular with the kids these days ( Read more... )

The iPhone isn't even out yet, but it's already so last week. Reports now indicate Google is working on its own phone, which will surely cost less, work better, and not eat batteries once a year at a cost of $99 a pop. Most importantly, it won't require buying into the evil Apple empire, which is looking a lot more like what people said the evil ( Read more... )

I had installed MySpace IM last week in order to chat with a friend in Chicago who isn't always on AIM. While it was good to connect with him, everything else about it turned out to be a disaster. At least, I think that was the reason my computer slowed down to a crawl--it's always so hard to be sure ( Read more... )