Amazon Prices J.K. Rowling's New Book Sky High

Checked out J.K. Rowling's new book The Casual Vacancy on Amazon today. Just wanted to see what the reader ratings were, and what the price would be. And to my surprise, the Amazon Kindle version at the time of this writing was $17.99. What the? I guess you can no longer justify the cost of an e-reader as a way to buy cheaper books. Publishers have...

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WordPress App For Android Sports Snazzy Stats

WordPress for Android (and iOS) has a pretty snazzy stats module. The UI is simpe but has great graphs. You must log into your Wordpress.com account, and it's possible you will also need JetPack. My stats suck so thanks for helping a brother ou...

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I'm Refusing To Talk About The iPhone 5 Or Samsung Galaxy S III... Today

It's not going to happen. There is no way I'm going to link bait you here to talk about those two products, the iPhone 5 and the Samsung Galaxy S III. Wouldn't you rather discuss things like solving first, second and third world problems? My next post for sure.   Photo by zigazou76 &nbs...

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At The Mercy Of Cloud Storage

I'm a big cloud services user. I have cloud storage accounts with a net of nearly 100GB of free space. I use a lot of the space for archives, but lately I've been using Google Drive to keep my school documents available no matter I am. And today that system failed. Early this morning, apparently before a major Google services outage, I...

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You Can Blame Or Act On Education Failure

Look at how many kids are forced into remedial courses at the college level. Our current #Education models are failing.— Laura(@GOPrincess) September 11, 2012 I'm in no way criticizing Laura for her statement. But it got me thinking about what the statement really means. I hope to start writing more on Educational issues, and especially education...

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