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    Forced change to my writing timeline

    So I take a gander at Futurismic, and somebody out there has already started down the road to building an application I dreamt up to use as a plot device in a science fiction story. The State...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 17, 2005, 10:27 AM PDT

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    Some important genius agrees with me

    For going on four years now, I've been telling anyone who'll listen that the future of consumer computing is utility computing, and that once that hits the home market, corporate adoption won't...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 17, 2005, 7:26 AM PDT

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    IM as career tool

    Wired has an article about how Hollywood pros--and I don't mean the actors--are using custom away messages on their Instant Messenger apps to display their work availability. Basically,...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 16, 2005, 8:06 AM PDT

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    Deep beneath the surface of the blogosphere...!

    Yesterday, as I counted the weeks, days, hours and minutes until my expected rejection letter from Asimov's, I stumbled across a cleverly buried section of their site: A tiny archive of blogs from...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 16, 2005, 7:58 AM PDT

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    Picked my next story

    I dug out an old "space vampire" story from Oct. 2003. I've played with it a couple times between now and then, but it wasn't until I read a CNN/Science story a few months ago that the whole...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 14, 2005, 7:29 PM PDT | Latest comment by Tony Hopkinson

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    Getting new windows today

    No, I'm not upgrading my operating system (though Ted, our IT guy, did get me a really sleek new work PC, which led to all my browser preferences being lost, so I finally switched to Firefox full...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 14, 2005, 7:36 AM PDT

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    Why everyone should be late on Monday

    I got into work a little late today, since the wife and I threw a double birthday party for a couple of friends last night, which didn't end until about 1:00 am. As I drive up, I notice the side...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 13, 2005, 10:13 AM PDT

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    Wow, I'm famous (by Web standards, anyway)

    Just when I was despairing that I was the worst writer ever to belly up to a keyboard, life throws me a bone. When I show up this morning, sMoRTy71 has a little message waiting in my inbox (CC'd...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 9, 2005, 6:40 AM PDT

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    Took the plunge

    Well, I actually mailed the aforementioned short story manuscript this morning on my way to work. Suddenly, everything I hated about the ms. is all I can think about, and I feel nauseous at the...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 8, 2005, 8:26 AM PDT

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    Getting back on the fictional horse

    So I decided to give the fiction writing thing a try again last night. Going about it slowly. I pulled out an old SF short story I wrote about a year and half ago and starting polishing it. I'll...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 7, 2005, 10:03 AM PDT

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    Sci-fi tech will kill TV science fiction

    So today, Wired magazine tells us something most of us already know, that DVRs are going to destroy the entire notion of television commercials in the very near future (damn consumer empowerment)...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 3, 2005, 7:38 AM PDT | Latest comment by Deadly Ernest

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    Happy birthday, Superman!

    Seventy-seven years ago today, Action Comics #1 introduced the world to Superman, the character who all but defined the superhero genre and launched comic books headlong into their Golden Age of...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | June 1, 2005, 8:22 AM PDT

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    Maybe we should stage a TechRepubliCon

    After seeing how chummy many of our faithful community members have become in the Discussion forums, I'll air out a harebrained scheme I thought of during our experiment with Community Roadshow...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | May 31, 2005, 12:25 PM PDT

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    Never mention crap culture in the presence of sMoRTy71

    Okay, file this under Bizarre Life Lessons You'll Almost Certainly Never Need. For reasons not really worth getting into, I threw out a quote from Kevin Smith's Dogma today, the one where Bartleby...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | May 31, 2005, 11:31 AM PDT

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    Quick thoughts on the Member Rating Meter

    We're mulling over longterm improvements to the Site Activity Meter you see on your profile page, in discussion threads, and in Technical Q&A. We'd like to evolve it into a more meaningful...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | May 27, 2005, 1:08 PM PDT

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    Should we build a WikiManual?

    Yet another crazy feature idea from yours truly. This one was inspired by a Tech Q&A "thank you" from sgt_schultz (see Answer 7). The Sarge is one of our most prolific and well respected Q&A...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | May 26, 2005, 7:11 AM PDT | Latest comment by giftedwon@...

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    The ultimate trivia Web site

    File this entry under "prior art" in case anyone ever gets the idea of infringing the copyright of my half-baked schemes. People (and by "people," I mean the voices in my head) have occasionally...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | May 25, 2005, 8:30 AM PDT

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    TV is good for you? Duh!

    In case you hadn't noticed, the latest "it" book from pop academia is Steven Johnson's Everything Bad is Good For You. I haven't read it, but it's been paraphrased by so many sources--from Wired...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | May 24, 2005, 10:48 AM PDT

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    I guess we need a military IT forum

    Last week, I went and scouted a local user group, both to keep current on some tech issues and to start thinking about what TechRepublic can do to help user groups operate more effectively. After...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | May 23, 2005, 11:08 AM PDT

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    When does a "commercial" blog cross the line?

    As this very post stands as evidence, TechRepublic has rushed headlong into blogging--with surprising success. In less than a week, more than 150 blogs have been started by TR members, many of...

    Posted by Jay Garmon | May 20, 2005, 8:17 AM PDT

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