Wha? iPhone Doesn’t Display Pictures in Text Messages?

Posted by Brent under Gee Whiz Tech

I don’t need, nor do I want, to hack my iPhone: I don’t need a book reader, a graphing calculator or a wi-fi detector (uh, the iPhone is already is a wi-fi detector). This does not mean that I don’t want other things, such as Gmail instant messaging. But I am patient, patient as any […]

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Man Conference (You Need One, Too)

Posted by Brent under Boys v. Girls

Notes from Tuesday nights’ Man Conference (as taken on Twitter), where men convened to lend man strength to another member of the XY-chromosome set whose heart had been torn out of his chest by his at-the-moment-it-happened girlfriend…
We’ve all been there. And while much good and bad advice was proffered by all, somethings had to be […]

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All the Maps of Indiana Anyone Needs

Posted by Brent under The Whatever

After I posted the marketer’s map of Idaho, my pal created an “all anyone needs to know” map of Indiana (and yeah, I’m dropping the “marketer” part).

I’m charmed… yes, charmed is the word… that about a tenth of the state is “normal mostly.” And dig that you can split the state between “soybeans” and “corn.” […]

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Barista for the MDs (Or, My First Job Out of College)

Posted by Brent under The Whatever

(This was about to be a response to my friend at A Traveling Mom, who blogged about coffee. Then I realized I could feed my own blog!)
My first job out of school (besides the part-time stringing I was doing for San Diego County’s second-largest newspaper, The North County Times) was coffee jockey at an independent […]

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