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LJ -> Buzz

clayfoot Feb 10, 2010 15:19

If everything works right, this public entry will be propagated to Google Buzz. I got directions from here:

http://brad.livejournal.com/2408782.html

google buzz

The financial crisis. Let me show you it

clayfoot Sep 30, 2008 09:40

This American Life did a marvelous job of explaining the subprime mortgage meltdown, and they're working on a followup to explain the current crisis. I think that followup airs at the end of this week.

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Elliott Spitzer: Latest victim of the Mann Act

clayfoot Mar 11, 2008 10:44

Of course, it's all very embarrassing and sad that Elliott Spitzer's name was leaked to the press, along with an affidavit alleging his involvement in prostitution. Now, will someone please explain why this case was prosecuted by the Public Integrity Section under the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910? Also known as The Mann Act, this law has been ( Read more... )

Script to detect who has banned you

clayfoot Mar 03, 2008 09:53

LiveJournal gives you a method to ban users from commenting on your journal, without removing them from your friends list. There's no indication to the banned user, until they try to post a comment. Then, and only then, LJ indicates the user has been banned by disabling the check box to comment with your own id: ( Read more... )

scripting, greasemonkey

XM & Sirus: Please merge now

clayfoot Feb 28, 2008 20:13

My local public radio station has been off the air for a week, while they've been upgrading the antenna to digital. They promised to do it without disrupting listeners, so I can only assume they believe we weren't listening, anyway. ( Read more... )

"This Christmas" has magic, but not that kind

clayfoot Dec 03, 2007 08:37

My daughter persuaded me to take her and a friend to This Christmas on Friday. Despite a few good performances by fine actors, most of it was written to be predictable and clichéd. The final 10 minutes consist of the cast, out of character, dancing for the camera. If you end up seeing it anyway, look for this funny blooper: Shortly after Michael ' ( Read more... )

Step 1: Check for operator error

clayfoot Nov 15, 2007 08:17

I've been without a printer for a couple of weeks, now. The Epson 1280 wide format ink jet printer stopped feeding paper properly. It would drag the left side of the paper inside before the right. This crumpled the paper and ruined the print out pretty reliably. I would just replace it with a new printer, but good wide format printers are kinda ( Read more... )

In my ongoing effort to get every last one of you playing Halo 3 with me on Xbox Live, I offer up the following:

fye - Halo 3 $44.99 after rebate & pay w/Paypal
Microsoft Xbox 360 Headset for $8
Refurbished Xbox 360 Platinum 20GB System $278 at Geeks

Halo 3 is great, though I'm having trouble fun learning how all the new weapons and controls work ( Read more... )