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sporadic commentary in 3000 words or less...
2000
January 2000
Jan 29 Slow
Jan 26 Robot Wisdom
Jan 25 Underoos
Jan 24 Soopa
Jan 22 Super Bowl Coming
Jan 21 Crusoe
Jan 19 SXSW?
Jan 18 1 Billion
Jan 18 Still not smoking
Jan 10 AOL Merger
Jan 7 Woz Interview
Jan 5 Matrix Spoof
Jan 4 MacWorld Incoming
Jan 3 Parcells Retires
Jan 2 Under the Weather
Jan 1 We made it
February 2000
Feb 29 End of February
Feb 28 RIP Don Crabb
Feb 25 Off to the Keys
Feb 24 Wrong Way
Feb 23 Aqua
Feb 22 I'm not a rat
Feb 21 104 Links
Feb 20 YAPI
Feb 19 New Beetle
Feb 18 Key West
Feb 17 Dropshadow
Feb 16 Macs for Sale
Feb 15 Incase Bag Arrives
Feb 14 20 Mb?
Feb 13 RIP Snoopy
Feb 12 I'm buying Weblogs
Feb 11 Welcome to Friday
Feb 10 Whole Lotta Links
Feb 8 SXSW Awards
Feb 7 Evhead Redesign
Feb 3 Monkeyfist
Feb 2 RIP Willie B
Feb 1 Digital Camera!
March 2000
Mar 28 I apologize for this, but I will be taking some time off from this site for at …
Mar 26 Internet Explorer 5.02 for the Macintosh is due to be released Monday, but you …
Mar 25 I tried out Userland’s new Pike product this afternoon. The idea of a …
Mar 25 I think I could spend about a month just working on my personal projects and all …
Mar 24 Silverscreen is a theme manager for Palm OS 3 or higher.
Mar 24 This Industry Standard metrics report includes recent statistics on a number of …
Mar 24 Brad points me to this press release which proves that Freewheelz.com is indeed …
Mar 23 I went out to lunch with Doug today and he told me about FreeWheelz.com. I still …
Mar 22 This Salon article confirms what I think most of us that subscribe to Fast …
Mar 22 Work on the site continues. I’m struggling with some of the sub-page …
Mar 22 An exciting day. Too bad I can’t talk about what happened here yet.
Mar 21 I apologize profusely for the lack of a working site beyond this page. I had …
Mar 21 It’s going to be a really light day for posts. I’ve got tons of …
Mar 20 You knew it was going to happen sooner or later: Wetlog’s SXSW album.
Mar 20 ROTORtype has some fantastic fonts for Web use. For free that is.(via …
Mar 20 Apparently, redesigns are rampant again. iBoy has redesigned, Keith Brown has …
Mar 20 For the record, and since it’s been the number one source of feedback, …
Mar 20 The reviews are starting to come in. riothero says, “Bump’s new …
Mar 20 Brad and Derek have both posted their SXSW photos and memoirs. Brad’s had …
Mar 20 I absolutely respect Lane. Great site, great writing, and he seemed like a …
Mar 20 Comments on the new design?
Mar 20 Okay, its early Monday morning. I’m far from finished with this site, but …
Mar 19 A powerful rain and thunder storm will no doubt interrupt my work at any moment …
Mar 19 Thunder
Mar 18 Spring
Mar 17 Inspiration
Mar 16 Back in Atlanta
Mar 14 Wrapping SXSW
Mar 10 Day 1 from SXSW
Mar 9 Off to SXSW 2000
Mar 8 Weblog Nation
Mar 7 You Lika Da Link?
Mar 6 Web Apps
Mar 5 Drop Drawers
Mar 4 Geeks
Mar 3 Hacking Amazon
Mar 2 Rubber Duck
Mar 1 King Cakes
April 2000
Apr 28 How scary is this?
Apr 26 Jim points to this article about Palm moving to ARM processors. It’s a …
Apr 26 Did I mention that I like Dandot’s new design quite a bit?
Apr 26 Kudos to Waferbaby on the beautiful redesign.
Apr 26 I have lost 25 lbs since SXSW.
Apr 26 I went to Crate & Barrel yesterday to look at beds, and brought my digital …
Apr 26 I can’t ever remember feeling so drained physically, mentally, and …
Apr 24 I’m starting to really pack my stuff for the impending move. Lots of …
Apr 24 Crazy weekend. Still trying to recover. Good friends are hard to find, and …
Apr 20 Today is jack’s last day, which is a very sad one for me. I’ve …
Apr 20 I went with some friends to see Kids in the Hall last night. I thoroughly …
Apr 19 Almost everyone who sent me new apartment advice said I should shop at IKEA. …
Apr 19 Anger was a place to hide.
Apr 18 WebVan went preview in Atlanta today. Yeeha I say.
Apr 18 Enough with the meetings already.
Apr 17 Some interesting changes coming in my life these next few weeks. I’ve been …
Apr 17 Amount of money in loose change I exchanged for bills this weekend: $124.00
Apr 15 The people at MacSurfer have started a new site named TechNN which is a similar …
Apr 15 Jim is doing some interesting things with the data from Weblogs.com.
Apr 15 Small World post number 24: Paul goes to see Ani DiFranco last night, and Hamill …
Apr 15 More on Deep Leap from around the Web. First, their feature list, which is quite …
Apr 15 I always seem to feel better when I sing. I’m sitting in my office right …
Apr 15 Numerous people have pointed out the links at the top of the page are broken. …
Apr 14 mmmmmm Deep Leap. It’s a new Web app worth checking out. It manages your …
Apr 14 Kozmo.com hit with lawsuit. I find this very disturbing. I don’t think …
Apr 13 I would be remiss if I didn’t thank dlog for the nice comments about this …
Apr 13 You can now email me encouragement, or just plain bug me at my wireless device …
Apr 13 I’m pretty excited about UltraDev. It’s about time that someone …
Apr 13 I have to thank everyone who has been mailing me about my situation and …
Apr 13 I seem to be experiencing technical difficulties this morning. I can’t …
Apr 12 It’s always the little things.
Apr 12 I am officially addicted to kozmo.com. We’ve had for a few weeks here in …
Apr 11 Long time readers of this site know that I am a sucker for interface elements, …
Apr 10 I’ve been using Alphanumeric’s Sullivan skin running on my copy of …
Apr 10 Tuesdays with Morrie is an amazing book about the final year in the life of a …
Apr 9 They say that Spring is the time of changes. Well, they don’t kid around …
May 2000
May 31 People who are deprived(like those of us in Atlanta) can now purchase items from …
May 31 I can’t believe that Photoshop 6 is on the horizon already. I guess Adobe …
May 31 I got a great pair of shoes from this company in the half an hour that I got to …
May 31 TradeUps.com lets you trade in your old computer equipment for new equipment.
May 30 I’m listening to A Perfect Circle, Maynard from Tool’s new band. It …
May 30 I’m spending fewer and fewer hours in front of the computer right now, and …
May 30 I haven’t been answering email in a timely manner recently. If you are one …
May 30 I’m so tired of traveling. Thankfully, I won’t be doing any more in …
May 23 One neat thing we did with our very precious and tiny free time in California …
May 23 Where have I been? Traveling. Two red eyes in three days with a lot of meetings …
May 16 Kid Rock starves to death, MP3 piracy blamed
May 16 Ev mentioned this new Web service, OnePage which serves as a sort of content …
May 16 You know what I hate? When my computer crashes.
May 16 Meg’s post this morning about the sadness of losing her coffee guy made me …
May 16 Derek becomes the latest addition to the all-star Pyra team. It’s …
May 16 This article uses an interesting analogy between browser market share and the 50 …
May 15 Don’t forget that you can email me wherever I happen to be at the time at …
May 15 I should mention that I am constantly amazed by my brothers. They are, as a …
May 15 I read Who Moved My Cheese? on the plane on the way back from Rochester …
May 15 Jack launched a new, San Francisco style, saturn.org redesign today. In his new …
May 15 Of course, I’m sick now. That would be because I have pushed myself to the …
May 12 Don’t take this link the wrong way. I am not researching revenge …
May 11 3d.com is giving away Strata3D. Previously, it was a fairly expensive package.
May 11 This Village Voice article is an excellent explanantion of what is going on in …
May 11 Today’s installment of the Elian saga is happening a block from my office …
May 10 My youngest brother, David, is attending Hobart College, and is on their …
May 10 Apparently, the Internet can improve relations with family and friends, which is …
May 10 I went and played Walleyball with a group of people from work and some others …
May 10 I just discovered that Aimee Mann is playing in Atlanta in June. Our lucky San …
May 10 Strangely, when I log onto Napster now, there are still plenty of Metallica …
May 10 File under “not surprising to me”, my color is Black.
May 10 Some great Web, dreamweaver, and development tutorials on this site.
May 9 Steven Champeon takes Microsoft and Bill Gates to task for comments made in a …
May 8 The supermarket down the street from my house now has a self checkout system …
May 8 RIAA claims initial win against Napster.
May 8 What’s up with array?
May 8 Macromedia has posted more in-depth information about their upcoming Dreamweaver …
May 8 brig’s redesign is my favorite EatonWeb so far.
May 8 An excellent Salon interview with Eileen Richardson from Napster.
May 8 Matt, who seems to be full of great ideas, is working on this project as a part …
May 8 “The gem cannot be perfected without friction, nor man perfected without …
May 8 This weekend was a fantastic reminder of how much I dislike festival style music …
May 5 Aimme Mann’s new CD, Bachelor No.2 or the last remains of the dodo, is …
May 5 I finally got the March and April archive pages up. The legacy archives will …
May 5 I bought a new Television for my new apartment. It’s very very nice.
May 5 The annoying Javascript error messages that everyone was getting should be gone …
May 5 It’s going to be a fun weekend, my brother is coming into to town from New …
May 5 This whole I Love You virus thing has been really annoying for some people and …
May 2 Well I completed the majority of my move over the last two days. I should be …
June 2000
Jun 29 Macintouch has a PC Expo 2000: Palm, Handheld and Wireless Computing Special …
Jun 28 Sticking with the latest trends CNET launches a new Wireless section.
Jun 28 ‘HTTP on steroids’ headed our way. What is BXXP? I’m going to …
Jun 27 My Caffeine Sampler from ThinkGeek.com arrived this afternoon. It’s a …
Jun 27 MacWEEK: Sony to preview Palm handheld at PC Expo. It sounds more and more like …
Jun 26 Mac Internet Explorer 5.5: The Leaked Details
Jun 26 I’m playing beach volleyball in a league every Monday night, except …
Jun 26 There’s also a weblog to track the carbonization of Frontier.
Jun 26 Userland releases Frontier 6.2 and thanks me in the process! I don’t …
Jun 26 New to my daily visit list: K I I R O I
Jun 26 The Real World Blows does a good job of summing up my feelings about the show …
Jun 26 Project Cool’s XML Concepts article gives an excellent high level overview …
Jun 26 Today’s soundtrack courtesy of the Jurrasic 5. Their new cd, Quality …
Jun 25 I watched American Movie last night. Entertaining and brilliant. Depressing and …
Jun 25 This is my Web site. Where I can put stuff I want others to see online. You can …
Jun 25 Dave announced today that Userland is carbonizing Frontier. I’m so very …
Jun 23 How did I not know about the fact that there is a Final Fantasy movie coming out …
Jun 19 I want to elaborate on the comments below about the Bungie acquisition. This is …
Jun 19 As a long time user of great games like Marathon, Myth, and Myth II, I am …
Jun 18 I haven't written any magazine articles for over a year, and I'm realizing now …
Jun 18 WebReview: Introducing Dreamweaver Ultradev. Tools that do thinking for you are …
Jun 18 Dan points out Radio Shack’s ongoing annoying procedure of having to give …
Jun 18 Whenever I take my next road trip, I’ll certainly be using roadside …
Jun 18 From xml.com, The State of XML, a must read for anyone in the Web development …
Jun 18 Someone actually bought the FreeWheelz URL used in the Esquire April Fools …
Jun 18 A site that reminds me how much I wish I could draw is Loobylu.(via saturn.org)
Jun 18 I haven’t been updating as much recently because I’m making an …
Jun 16 I’m not missing in action. I was traveling for work again, and had fun …
Jun 10 My first post via my screaming new DSL Internet connection. Badass.
Jun 9 I should have done this this morning, but a happy 30th birthday to my brother …
Jun 9 Man, I just have to relax a little.
Jun 9 You can add this to the list of things I lust after but cannot afford.
Jun 9 Attempt number one to get my new DSL connection installed this morning failed. …
Jun 8 The Sony Palm based device is approaching.
Jun 8 Shaq was just devastating last night. I don’t know what the Pacers can do …
Jun 8 I think I forgot to mention that I bought a new computer a couple of weeks ago …
Jun 7 A Young Person’s Guide to Simple Object Access Protocol cleared a bunch of …
Jun 7 I finally am getting high speed Internet access at home.
Jun 7 Mailstart lets you check any POP3 email account from a Web based interface. Very …
Jun 6 Metallica releases Napster proof album
Jun 5 “I never half step cause I not a half stepper.”
Jun 1 The new Kaliber 10000 episode is fantastic.
Jun 1 f**kedcompany.com - the dot-com deadpool Perhaps not the nicest domain and site …
Jun 1 You keep using that word? I do not think it means what you think it …
Jun 1 At home treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome
Jun 1 My brother’s band, Die Laughing, played two songs on yesterday’s …
Jun 1 If you’ve got some time to burn, this links page points to some of the …
Jun 1 extralucky.com is great. The splash screen is fun, and the actual content and …
Jun 1 I should qualify this by saying that I use both Internet Explorer and Netscape …
July 2000
Jul 29 Here’s a step in the right direction: eMusic has a new plan where you can …
Jul 28 I’m a huge music consumer. I mean really huge. I buy at least two …
Jul 28 I made some additions to the link box tonight, and I plan on actually doing some …
Jul 22 Lion meat is on the menu? I usually don’t use this site as a platform to …
Jul 21 Details on Kid A, the new Radiohead album from someone who has heard it. …
Jul 21 This BBC article, Stopping the cybersquatters, makes me nervous and happy at the …
Jul 21 MacWEEK: Inside the Cube confirms many things that I have thought since the …
Jul 17 CNN has an article on ego surfing. I’m amazed they thought this was worthy …
Jul 17 It’s about time one of the major record labels did this. I’ve …
Jul 17 A site that I am just loving is CaffeMocha.com. It might be the best entry in …
Jul 17 I really like what Kurt’s done with the new VersionTracker redesign. If …
Jul 17 Wow, I have quite the different opinion of the X-Men movie than Jim has. I also …
Jul 15 A very happy birthday to my good friends and co-workers Clint and Sara.
Jul 12 Well, I’ve got some big news today. We sold our company to a larger …
Jul 9 The Apache XML Project
Jul 9 I rented Sweet and Lowdown on DVD this week. I’m a pretty big Woody Allen …
Jul 9 PIX column :: Zeldman’s second site offers an interesting look into how …
Jul 9 I’m getting a lot done today on my apartment, which is slowly making the …
Jul 9 Joe Jackson: Live In New York: Summer in the City is the result of Joe Jackson …
Jul 4 A good Salon.com article covers how The Patriot skews history and ends up making …
Jul 4 I just saw In God We Trust on Cinemax. Unfortunately, the full movie isn’t …
Jul 3 What a great long weekend. I’m getting lots of stuff done, and spent three …
August 2000
Aug 26 The new Charlie Hunter CD is really really good stuff. I’m grooving to it …
Aug 26 Alien Skin has a free Eye Candy 4000 beta for ya.
Aug 15 Now some XSLT pointers and dialogue. I’ve got really mixed feelings about …
Aug 15 I’ve been through a lot of changes in the past six months, and spending a …
Aug 15 I’m now very tired of traveling. I’ve had lost luggage, and am now …
Aug 10 I’m in San Diego now, well actually Rancho Bernardo which is North of San …
Aug 4 This has got to be a joke right? A 1200 Mhz Mac? Would Apple even allow this to …
Aug 4 People who were reading a couple of months ago will remember my rant about …
Aug 4 Every day I wake up and hope that today will be the day I will stop being such …
Aug 4 Lots of travel on my horizon. In the next three weeks I’ll be seeing San …
Aug 4 A few people have pointed out that my Windows bug post from yesterday …
Aug 4 I really like my TIVO a lot, and now I can hack it to add more drive space.
Aug 3 This has got to be the strangest Windows bug ever.
September 2000
Sep 29 With Autumn basically here now, I’m contemplating the summer that just …
Sep 29 Graphic Designer’s Judgment Clouded By Desire To Use New Photoshop Plug-In
Sep 29 This springboard module makes your Handspring Visor into a cell phone. How about …
Sep 28 Well, I’ve spent quite a bit of time with Mac OS X this week, and I can …
Sep 25 Here’s an article on hacking the Mac OS X dock
Sep 24 The gallery for Behind the Curtain has been posted. Unfortunately, my attempt at …
Sep 22 Need a copy of Henry David Thoreau’s Walden for your Palm OS device?
Sep 22 My copy of the Mac OS X beta arrived yesterday. While I’m sure I’ll …
Sep 22 I’ve been ripping all of my CD’s to MP3 over the last few weeks. …
Sep 22 I’ve, of course, obtained a copy of the new Radiohead album, Kid A. …
Sep 22 A randomly generated Internet company
Sep 18 You should read Beyond the Browser on the newly redirected …
Sep 18 I finally sent Heather a picture which is now posted on Jezebel’s Mirror.
Sep 15 I’m taking part in Behind the Curtain
Sep 14 Ouch, just had a deep teeth cleaning done.
Sep 14 Dr. Dobb’s MacintoshDeveloper.com is a new Mac developer site with some …
Sep 13 I just spent some time downloading the entire new Smashing Pumpkins album from …
Sep 12 Today’s cool link stolen from Zeldman: fontomas*
Sep 12 Where Hobbits Live Virtually. They’re using Red Hat to render the effects …
Sep 11 waferbaby corners matt haughey and heather.
Sep 11 Salon has an interview with the head dude at TiVO.
Sep 11 BBEdit 6.0 was released this afternoon.
Sep 10 In an effort to get everything in my home hooked up to my high speed Internet …
Sep 10 I had a chance to check out the new Sony Palm OS handheld. I wasn’t all …
Sep 10 Somehow, I had forgotten about Everything.
Sep 10 From the “always taking it to the next level” category, the Beastie …
Sep 10 Davezilla is funny and well designed.
Sep 10 I’m re-reading Lord Foul’s Bane, which I hadn’t read since I …
Sep 10 I went shopping in Boston yesterday and bought some neat looking Gravis shoes. …
Sep 10 Damn, Kozmo is out of everything I want. Must have been a long weekend for them.
Sep 10 3 days to the Mac OS X beta.
Sep 10 Dave hangin out with Chuck D? So weird to me to have two people that have had so …
Sep 9 I’m watching BattleBots. They destroy each other. For some reason, I love …
Sep 9 /caffemocha put up a new version of their site while I was out of town.
Sep 9 Waiting for that new k10k to be launched tomorrow.
Sep 9 I did manage to get into the Red Sox/Yankees game last night, and got to see …
Sep 8 I’m still in Boston, and will be returning to Atlanta tomorrow. The XML …
Sep 8 Rebecca’s newest essay effort weblogs: a history and perspective is a …
Sep 4 Here’s a review of Compaq’s iPAQ PocketPC found via Scripting News. …
Sep 4 An Excellent Bookmarklets tutorial.
Sep 4 This is a demonstration post.
Sep 1 I should have pointed to this excellent article when I originally read it, but …
Sep 1 ::: caffemocha ::: continues to refine and redesign. It’s really good …
Sep 1 Simon St.Laurent has started an XML/XHTML tips mailing list.
Sep 1 I’m going to XML World 2000 in Boston next week. If you are going. or are …
Sep 1 IKEA has a preview of their 2001 catalog online
Sep 1 From the new set of articles up on WebReview XML Tutorial 3: XSL …
October 2000
Oct 31 Is there natural law of cell phones that states that the more important the …
Oct 23 I keep reading on Dave Winer’s site about how great the Mets are, how they …
Oct 23 I haven’t forgotten about this site or anything, I’m just doing some …
Oct 12 The newest issue of the Industry Standard’s newish magazine, Grok, is all …
Oct 12 This article from today’s New York Times pictures(without any sort of …
Oct 11 My Creative Nomad Jukebox arrived yesterday. I’ve really been looking …
Oct 11 Here’s part 3 of The Truth In Advertising. It’s absolutely …
Oct 11 This commercial has to be the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while.
Oct 5 AnywhereYouGo.com is a great wireless technology site for developers and people …
Oct 2 Tim Burton’s Stainboy(Shockwave required)
Oct 2 How-To Install Samba on Mac OS X.
Oct 2 Holy Shit. The new caffe mocha redesign and splash page by ABC is incredible …
Oct 2 A slideshow on AppleScript and Mac OS X from Apple.
November 2000
Nov 23 No Cable
Nov 17 Well, the third anniversary of this site came and went yesterday without a …
Nov 13 Bump Products
Nov 13 Bump: The Sneaky Numbers Game
Nov 13 Electoral College Sportswear
Nov 8 Well here we are the day after, and it looks like we won’t know until …
Nov 8 I’m still up watching. It’s very interesting that, at this point …
Nov 7 Exit Poll results posted on Inside.com seem to have things tight, but Gore ahead …
Nov 7 If you are in the United States, please get out and vote. Voter.com seems like a …
Nov 7 Customer service is dead. Three weeks ago, I purchased a Compaq iPaq Pocket PC. …
Nov 7 Up close and personal with Audrey, 3Com’s new Internet appliance. I was …
Nov 6 Nintendo Spaceworld 2000 is where you can find out more about Nintendo’s …
Nov 4 Had a great time today climbing at Atlanta Rocks Intown. It looks like rock …
Nov 4 As a result of watching the movie below, I’m listening to Three Ep’s …
Nov 4 I finally saw High Fidelity last night, I’ve been saving the DVD for a …
Nov 4 Grand Royal Magazine has moved to an online format.
Nov 1 So the protocol formerly known as 802.11 and Airport is now Wireless Ethernet or …
December 2000
Dec 31 Have a safe New Years Eve. I mean that. I’ll be back tomorrow with a year …
Dec 30 Via Zeldman, Mappa.Mundi Magazine is back online. A great site that has some …
Dec 29 Clemency for Leonard Peltier Petition
Dec 29 My copy of The Art of the Matrix arrived this morning. This is a must have book …
Dec 28 Meg and Ev make the New York Times with Invasion of the ‘Blog’: A …
Dec 27 For the head of the company, Jeff Bezos has a remarkably long Wish List. Maybe …
Dec 27 I’ve got some issues.
Dec 27 The Standards Process: Money Talks, Bullshit Walks is a great commentary on the …
Dec 26 All of the Pocket PCs Software List is the place to find Pocket PC software. If …
Dec 26 When Media One got bought by AT&T Broadband a few months ago, I had hoped …
Dec 26 I’m also currently entering the world of sushi chef experimentation with …
Dec 26 I’ve watched a bunch of movies over the last week that I’ve been …
Dec 26 I had a great holiday. I feel recharged. It’s not about gifts, or eating …
Dec 24 Here’s wishing you a happy holiday. Bumping will resume on Tuesday.
Dec 19 Apple launches an Internet Developer section of it’s developer site?
Dec 18 American Airlines | aa.com is generating a nice big fat error message. Gotta …
Dec 18 The New York Giants, my team of choice, managed to clinch the NFC East last …
Dec 18 Jake has a dotcom Screenshot graveyard going. Great idea.
Dec 18 Links2Go does a pretty solid job of relating other sites to mine. I’m …
Dec 18 My last Monday in the office this year. A good time for me to mull over the last …
Dec 17 I’ve spent most of my waking hours today, with the exception of a side …
Dec 17 Good Grief! The Highs and Lows of Usability Testing is an interesting look, not …
Dec 14 This page has video clips from the show. Apparently, there will be an American …
Dec 14 Junkyard Wars has to be the greatest television program that I have ever …
Dec 13 If you use BBEdit(If you use a Mac and do Web stuff you should.), here are some …
Dec 13 I’m going to the Atlanta Thrashers game tonight. It’s my first …
Dec 13 The Downfall of Internet Consultants takes a look at what went wrong with iXL, …
Dec 13 The Delicate Art of (Web) Design Critique is a great overview of this very …
Dec 12 The inevitable scooter bashing has begun on the Web.(via k10k)
Dec 12 Without Willliam Shakespeare, there would be no bump, and therefore no bump.net.
Dec 12 The Street has already been cancelled. Oddly, I liked the show quite a bit, and …
Dec 11 This new Nokia is probably the best looking PCS phone I’ve seen so far. …
Dec 11 You know you’ve been slacking a little too much on your weblog when you …
Dec 1 infoSync is another great mobile device site worth checking out. They have great …
Dec 1 After a great Thanksgiving trip to visit family in the NorthEast and a hectic …