Stephan Miller

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And to reiterate, yes!

A short post for the weekend, but with lists, you can usually leave them short. This is a list of feeds that I have gathered over the last few months. They are the rss feeds of the hot and upcoming story section of various bookmark and social news sites. And I choose a few new ones in last week out of the following sites:  Read more... (351 words, estimated 1:24 mins reading time)

There are times I have had pretty good luck with just taking off with a topic and coming out on the other side with a post. This morning was not one of those times. But I knew. I could feel it.

Even though that is my favorite way to right a post, it didn’t work. I didn’t feel my juices flowing and I tackled a subject I had been thinking about for a while, but not quite enough. When the post was around 750 words long and I wasn’t sure I was halfway done, I knew I was in over my head. But I still tried to force it.  Read more... (383 words, estimated 1:32 mins reading time)

I wrote HTML before they really made any good editors for it, back in the old days of 64 colors or however many there were back then. Tables were the only option. You could place something anywhere you wanted to in a page as long as it was in the center, on the right or on the left. And fonts. Forget fonts. A manual typewriter had better fonts.  Read more... (562 words, 1 image, estimated 2:15 mins reading time)

I decided to write a post about cloud computing, because I am using less and less of my own resources and more and more of what is freely and cheaply available on the internet. It saves time, money and space.

You may be using the cloud without knowing it. If you use webmail like Gmail, an App like Picnik, or host your blog at WordPress.com or Blogger, then you are using the lower levels of cloud computing. You are taking chores and storage and moving them from your computer to a place online where you can access them from any computer and as time goes on, from your phone also. I host my own blogs for the sake of control but I really on Gmail to hold all my database backups.  Read more... (587 words, estimated 2:21 mins reading time)

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I will have to send you to a couple of other blogs to get most of this story. I just happen to log on last night and catch it. I have been using Friendfeed lately and it is fast at catching new stories. I saw that Andy Beard had a new one and had to check it out.

But this is not a new story. It has been going on for a while.

It seems that ePerks and iHype didn’t like a review Vlad wrote. And took it to the extreme.  Read more... (119 words, 2 images, estimated 29 secs reading time)