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So, I started thinking…

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A hundred years ago, when I was a kid, I imagined myself my very own robot friend. This critter would do things for me like keep me on time to the next exciting adventure, remind me of relevant bits of minutiae concerning what makes the perfect throwing rock, as well as every page of every book that I ever read and could even make cross links between topics so that everything was always exciting and new and mattered to me.

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March 6th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

The Comcast Debacle for the Layperson

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Since the whole Comcast / Bit torrent has hit the news wires, confusions about what is really happening, and how it happens to be somewhat illegal abound. I'm writing this primer on the particulars on what happens and where things go really wrong.

This is a complex matter, so instead of griping about the dearth of information on what really happens, I'll try my best to document things as I see them.

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November 17th, 2007 at 11:24 am

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