Archive for ‘2009’

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Nov21

Tweets on 2009-11-21

by Michael Ridley on November 21st, 2009 at 2:59 am
Posted In: twitter

Google Scholar now includes legal opions (http://bit.ly/1hLU35) including favorite ever : http://bit.ly/8tqHa0 #

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Nov20

Tweets on 2009-11-20

by Michael Ridley on November 20th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Posted In: twitter

Kindle for Windows app launched – http://bit.ly/HQaYf #

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Nov14

Tweets on 2009-11-14

by Michael Ridley on November 14th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Posted In: twitter

Singing in the rain is playing at Starbucks. How appropriate. Except for the singing part. #

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Nov13

Tweets on 2009-11-13

by Michael Ridley on November 13th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Posted In: twitter

Does Ingrid Michaelson's sound remind anyone else of Ani Difranco? #

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Oct09

Tweets on 2009-10-09

by Michael Ridley on October 9th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Posted In: twitter

#Obama won the #Nobel Peace Prize? Anyone else find that a bit…puzzling? Non-sequitor? #

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Oct01

Open Source Backups with Bacula

by Michael Ridley on October 1st, 2009 at 4:15 am
Posted In: tech

We are waiting for funding at work to buy licenses of Veritas NetBackup but in the mean time I was charged with finding a reasonable free open source backup solution.  Our environment is fairly typical with a mix of Linux and Windows clients with an LTO tape library attached to a Linux server. From my […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Sep28

Tweets on 2009-09-28

by Michael Ridley on September 28th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Posted In: twitter

Checking out the Hulu desktop app. So far seems pretty cool. #

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Jun05

Tweets on 2009-06-05

by Michael Ridley on June 5th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Posted In: twitter

Thought I was getting laid off yesterday but apparently safe until the 12th – maybe longer. Stressful. #

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May17

Kindle DX is the Kindle I’ve Been Waiting For

by Michael Ridley on May 17th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Posted In: life, tech

I have been excited about the prospect of eInk readers for a long time.  Back in January of 2006 I wrote about looking forward to the Sony Reader but expressed that a tabloid sized version that would allow me to read periodicals is what I really want.  It looks like Amazon’s upcoming Kindle DX will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May16

Playing Around with FriendFeed

by Michael Ridley on May 16th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Posted In: tech

I’ve been playing around with FriendFeed for the past week or two.  It does a lot of things better than Twitter.  Notably I am not limited to the 140 characters and it allows a conversation around a post.  The conversation piece is pretty key. On the other hand, it doesn’t have quite as mature an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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