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I guess I can add a story to the many out there about someone who tracks down a lost phone using a Find My Phone-type of service. In this case, it was my son’s. I tracked it down to the exact classroom where the kid who took it was sitting. My son calls when he [...]

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Boost Mobile is Sprint’s pay-as-you-go sister company. I kind of doubted they’d let me activate my Sprint Nexus S phone on the Boot network. After an hour of transfers with both Boost and Sprint, turns out that was sadly a correct assumption. I got my Nexus S earlier this year, purchased from Sprint so that [...]

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I’m drowning in Cyber Monday emails — mostly from merchants I’ve already done business with and so far, simply suggesting that my previous business with them isn’t that worthwhile. I’ll pick on TomTom and 24 Hour Fitness, in this post. TomTom emailed me this: Hmm. That Go Live Top Gear edition? Yeah, I just bought [...]

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Like many, I’ve been watching the terrible news in Japan closely. It especially strikes home because I live in an earthquake zone, a tsunami zone and have the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station 30 miles from my home. Checking up on the plant’s emergency plans was a less than reassuring experience today. San Onofre Can’t [...]

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Last October, I wanted to deal with duplicates within my iTunes library. I tried several options. Among them was the mistake of buying TidySongs. The software failed to work as advertised. Moreover, both TidySongs & Clickbank failed to refund the $39 I paid as promised. “Free” Download I really should have known better. The web [...]

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I vote by mail. This weekend, I started making my choices. I came to the decision over candidates for Orange County Treasurer, a race between Shari Freidenrich and Keith Rodenhuis. I thought I’d visit each candidate’s web sites, to learn more about that. I got a shock to discover that the Rodenhuis site was down [...]

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We’ve been hearing rumors that the Albertsons supermarket would be closing soon here on the Balboa Peninsula, as well as all the stores in the complex near it. Apparently this is true, not that there’s been any local press about it. I just heard back from my local city councilman, Michael Henn, who told me: [...]

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I decided to upgrade my iPhone 3G to iOS 4 today, despite worries that ultimately, it would just slow my phone down more. We’ll see. After an hour of waiting just for the phone to backup, I got a tip off Twitter that let me get through the upgrade process painlessly in 45 minutes flat. [...]

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Ahead of next week’s FTC workshop on journalism and the internet, I gave an informal briefing to several people from the FTC about the differences between how search engines, aggregators and news blogs all gather content automatically and through human editing. They seemed to find it useful, so I thought I’d share it more widely [...]

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