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Cash 4 Gold Is A SCAM???

Posted on Mar 23, 2009 - 3:15 PM Comments (0)

Shocking right? As silly as their commercials are unfortunately there are a ton of people who fall for the gimmick and send in their jewelry, only to be totally disappointed when their check finally arrives.

I found this article today on ShoeMoney.com where someone claiming to be an ex-employee talks about the entire operation.

It didn't surprise me at all that they were burning people on the value of their jewelry, but what did surprise me is by how much. Pretty ballsy operation (assuming of course that the claims made are true).

I still find it strange that ...

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The White House: A New Blog To Add To Your RSS Reader

Posted on Jan 20, 2009 - 11:33 AM Comments (0)

Today at 12PM EST, our new president Barack Obama was sworn into office. Truly an amazing day.

President Obama has long been a champion of social media and internet technology (or just technology in general) and now the WhiteHouse website has a new feature... A blog!

There are already 5 entries in the blog (obviously prepared in advance) but that is a good start!

Be interesting to see how often this is updated and how transparent this administration will be. The promise of real transparency has been made along the campaign and so far it sure seems like that will ...

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The Deed Is Done

Posted on Nov 4, 2008 - 5:24 PM Comments (2)

Well, I went and voted about an hour ago. I was surprised by how quickly I was able to vote and go. I was a little worried actually about low turn out but the volunteers told me there was a huge rush for most of the morning.

Here is a goofy picture of me after the vote. My wife took it with an iPhone so..

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I hope you voted too (assuming you're American, of age, and eligible). Now I'll be glued to the news to watch the results.

Technorati Tags: election 2008, goofy, history, vote

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Oh The Politics...

Posted on Oct 15, 2008 - 3:16 PM Comments (4)

No doubt that this is an extremely sensitive presidential race in the US this time around. No, I'm not going to write a long post about who I'm endorsing and why. Normally it's not smart to talk politics and religion with friends because it always leads to arguments.

Today I actually was so pissed off at a post on a blog, which I won't mention here, that compared the 2 candidates that I simply unsubscribed and left a comment calling the author an idiot. Obviously the post disagreed with my feelings on the subject but that ...

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Sept. 11th, 7 Year Anniversary

Posted on Sep 11, 2008 - 12 PM Comments (0)

Today is the 7 year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. Obviously this is a day in history that everyone will remember forever. One day that brings back a lot of emotions in a lot of people. Especially the people of New York.

Over a year ago I wrote a post about a strange prediction I had on September 10th, 2001. Sort of eerie post and I give links to the actual prediction from 2001 on LiveJournal. Maybe it isn't a prediction, but more of a "feeling". Anyways, it's sort of strange.

My daughters will be attending a "Patriot ...

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Django 1.0 Released!!

Posted on Sep 4, 2008 - 9:46 AM Comments (0)

Wow, Django has finally released version 1.0 of it's framework. I've been using Django for around 18 months now and have written about it many times in the past. There have many so many improvements to the framework since I started using it. If you want to create a powerful website quickly, Django is such an awesome framework to build from. Since it's pure Python it makes writing fast code such a breeze.

Anyways, I just wanted to say congrats to the entire Django team and user base. This is a big milestone for all of ...

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Why Earthquakes Are Fun

Posted on Jul 29, 2008 - 1:10 PM Comments (1)

So we just had a decent earthquake (5.8 downgraded to 5.4) here in Los Angeles area. I've lived in So. Cal for most of my life and as a result, I've been through plenty of quakes. The scariest one I can remember is the Northridge quake of 1994.

Normally I would say there is nothing "fun" about an earthquake, but since so many people move to LA every year, when a quake hits it's usually the first they've experienced. Watching them freak out can be pretty entertaining. I wish I had a video camera ...

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JohnChow.com Reviews SmartJabber, Corrections Needed

Posted on Apr 16, 2008 - 12:12 PM Comments (0)

As you know, I recently announced the launch of of SmartJabber. This is one of the new companies I have been working on the last several months. To help spread the word we ordered a paid review from JohnChow.com. We weren't quite sure what to expect because the review would be an honest one, regardless of the fact that it is a paid review. I am totally cool with that and I wouldn't expect, or accept, anything less.

When we ordered the review we assumed we would be contacted for a free account so the reviewer would ...

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Groovr Got Fancy!

Posted on Feb 18, 2008 - 4:48 PM Comments (0)

For a while I worked at a new startup here in LA called Groovr. I resigned earlier this year from Groovr but still keep in touch with the guys & gals over there. Today they launched the latest version of the website. It's been about 5 months since the last release and the features they implemented are really cool!

So what's new?

New Design - As much as I loved the last design when we rolled it out 5 months back, this new one definitely takes the cake. It is very "cool" and flows very well for the type of ...

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Dealing With Business Emergencies

Posted on Feb 15, 2008 - 1:04 PM Comments (0)

Fun morning for me today. I use Amazon S3 service for storage of various files, including the static media for most of my websites. This morning there was a major outage across the AWS farm. After noticing the errors I began to scramble to figure out what was going on. Obviously the issue was on the remote side (Amazon) so I had to sit and wait it out.

The outage seemed to last about 3 hours (for me, others are still reporting issues.) While S3 is an awesome service and very affordable, this shows that nothing is fail proof. Even ...

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