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  I received the Nokia N95 8GB North American Version yesterday from WOM World / Nokia.  For a pretty well used demo unit the phone was in pretty good condition.  There were a couple of pretty good scuffs on the screen, but other than that there was not any other visible damage to the phone.  [...]

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Hey all,  I just wanted to put out a plug for a seminar session I am going to be doing on Monday night . (7pm CST I believe) at the Mount Prospect Public Library, Mt. Prospect, IL.  As you can see from the title, the sessions will be about upgrading to Windows Vista (through [...]

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You ever watch the toaster waiting for your Eggo waffle to popup? It always seems to happen when you look away right? FOR ME TOO! Well here was something else that popped up when I looked away.  NewsGator partnered with “ReadBurner” to enable NewsGator users to RSS the sites and stories that we feel [...]

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Now, I like to think that I am a high falut’n VIP every now and then … well at least until I get home… family is such a humbling experience… Recently, I must have attracted someone’s attention because I received the following email back in late May:
Hi Scott,
As a quick introduction I’m from [...]

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Ok, I am really think that I should be asking what did you learn this week… but my brain is having time issues right now.  Let me give you a bit of background.  About 3 months ago, a colleague of my and I decided to offer a summer in-district course on Web 2.0… after [...]

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Well, here I am at a crossroads. While on one hand I want to start podcasting, on the other I would like for my efforts to have some semblance of quality… I think that I achieve a podcast here. I apologize in advance for the audio quality as I am providing this caveat: [...]

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Greg Noack just posted his first blog post and he relates a great story of efficiency and the utilization and experimentation of new tools specifically Google Docs and Zoho Writer. 
I left a long comment and it got me thinking about my use of Zoho’s myriad of applications and how they might be better [...]

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I am ill today so my creativity and mental capacities are being quite challenged just continuing to breath and stay awake, so I am using Robin’s post format to provide some structure to my ramblings. [bowing to Robin Ellis]
I saw Robin Ellis’ blog post and was moved to continue to build this “Passion [...]

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In this post I will be expanding on the category of RSS I started in this post. Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a tremendous way to simplify your processes in searching and gathering information. I know that I could hunt for words to describe an RSS Aggregator but Lee Lefever from Common Craft really sums [...]

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While I was off on a different tangent a few weeks back, I had a chance to spend a couple of minutes talking with David Jakes about a couple of different subjects, but one thing that he said that really resonated with me was that teachers needed time to internalize technology before they begin [...]

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