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Posted by John on 18th September 2009

http://jleveron.mp/ powered by http://chi.mp/ – free domain name for social networking; nifty idea to aggregate.

http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/01b7c8dbb4dbb60a05b31d74c4cea9e6?s=200 Gravatars, or globally recognized avatars. Change the number on the end, and it will resize my Gravatar to that “size”, in a square form.

http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/02/how_to_be_a_men.html How to be a Mensch – good general read, not just for IT folks – which dovetails nicely with Desiderata

http://www.daveramsey.com/ Financial advice from Dave Ramsey can assist any IT entrepreneur.

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Posted by John on 14th August 2009

http://bit.ly/ sure is popular, and has some tracking built in to see roughly how many folks have clicked on what you thought was nifty.  Not as heavily into the Twitter thing, but brevity is important there, too.

While I’ve made no secret that I enjoy the Desiderata, I have to say that even Les Crane was right – his popular early 70′s song version is hard to listen to.  There’s only so much sunshine there, sunshine ;)

sunshine, maximus

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