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September 2006
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General
Guy’s Boxy Car(s)
Guy used to drive a Scion Xb and recently sold it. At first he thought it was soooo cool, but eventually caved in and realized it wasn’t very practical. All of the gang has given him a hard time about the car since he bought it. Now we kid him because he replaced the Scion [...]
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Technology
A Yahoo! Anti Phishing Technique
A few days ago I discovered a new technique that Yahoo! is using to stem phishing attempts on their network. Definition of phishing from Wikipedia: In computing, phishing is a criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy [...]
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General
HTC Launches the Cingular 3125 Phone
HTC is one of our (Extractable‘s) newest and hippest clients. Today they launched a new smartphone. Since we maintain their web site, we worked with the client for the last few weeks to develop content and a strategy for the launch online. As expected, the launch was picked up by all of the gadget blogs. [...]
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Cycling
Added a MotionBased feed
Last night I found that MotionBased offers a feed to my recent activity. The RSS is linked into the sidebar. MotionBased is a web application that translates GPS data into functional analysis and online mapping for endurance and outdoor athletes. Using data collected from GPS devices, MotionBased empowers its customers with online data and mapping [...]
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Technology
Using RelayHealth to talk with my doctor
Today I went in for some minor outpatient surgery, and I’m not going to go into the details. My doctor is pretty tech savvy and during visits to his office he regularly consults a laptop on his desk to lab results, echeduling, etc. My doctor communicates with me online using RelayHealth. It’s a site that [...]
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