Micahville

Some of you might have heard about Google’s move to place ads on YouTube. Although reports about mandatory pre roll advertisements have been discredited, I am still opposed to any mandatory ads on my internet TV “network”. This revenue model just alienates viewers like me, and hence many of us disenfranchised viewers might be searching for some additional sites.

You are in luck, as I have foreseen this problem, and decided to compile a selection of alternative, relatively unscathed video sites.

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I just received my beta invite to GrandCentral, a company bought back in July by Google. Read more about it here and here. More importantly, I have some invites if any of you would like one; if so, then leave your full name and email by commenting this post. First come, first serve!

For months, I had been searching for an adequate solution to my social networking disconnect. In the last couple of days, I believe that I have discovered a solution to this problem. I received an invite to a new service called Mugshot, which aims at rectifying Web 2.0 detachment. It does so by providing a streamlined system for numerous social sites.

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After reading this, don’t forget to check out my other post

While at my favorite independent bookstore, Kepler’s in Menlo Park, I discovered a jewel of geekiness. The book in question was Core Memory: A History of Vintage Computers, and I thought it would be interesting to query my parents about some of the computing relics detailed in the tome. I was quite surprised to learn that not only were some of the computers used by my parents, both of whom had been living in Silicon Valley at its inception, but that some of this tech might be stashed in our attic.

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My iPod is broken. The once golden and revered iPod is dead after 3 years. So what you may ask?

Here’s what: my iPod did not die in one fell stroke. It died laboring under the ever more mature iPod battery that it ran on. Right now, it is probably on its way off to lithium heaven (or hell, depending on the way you look at it).

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