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Work On Your Geek Cred – Geekipedia

Need to know what in the heck AJAX is? Wondering what all the talk is about DRM free music? Sometimes people “in the know” can drop some pretty intimidating buzz words, but there is no need for you to feel inferior. Wired Magazine has compiled a Geekipedia that covers a lot of the people, places …

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Black Friday Sales

Are you ready for the mad Black Friday Sales rush to get great bargains and get ahead on your Christmas shopping? Are you looking for some really cheap tech items (electronics, computers, software, etc)? Well, a friend of mine just emailed me a link to this online Google Spreadsheet containing a very nice listing of …

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Arbitrary Command-Line Arguments In Bash

Have you ever wanted to be able to process an arbitrary number of command-line arguments in your Bash scripts? Well, fear not! It is actually quite easy. All you need is one of the special built-in variables of the Bash shell. The “$@” variable gives you the parameters passed on without any expansion and seen …

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Will The Google Phone Overtake The iPhone?

The release of Apple’s iPhone has made tremendous waves in the cellphone industry. However, the honeymoon is over and the iPhone has been “cracked” in favor or more user customization and third party applications. Apple has announced an SDK (software developer kit) to be release for the iPhone coming in February 2008, but by then …

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franzone.com Has A New Theme!

I hope I haven’t shocked anyone, but this is still the home of Jonathan Franzone and my various technical ramblings. I have been working on a new theme for the site… from scratch. I have tweaked WordPress themes before and thought that there was really nothing to it. This was my first full-on theme though …

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Pumpkin Carving Video Madness

It’s that pumpkin time of year again and you should already see the carved pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns scattering the country. I just came across this Squid Lens, Pumpkin Carving Video Showcase. There are videos of some amazing carved pumpkins such as this one (click through to the site if you cannot see the video): There …

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Google Context Ads Is Off Its Rocker

I just posted an article (actually a link to another article) about Microsoft, Yahoo and Google in the online advertising arena. No surprises there; you can see it directly below. After publishing though I looked down at the AdSense block that follows each of my postings and… what!? Seriously, “Anti Monkey Butt Powder“? What the …

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