Patrick Havens on June 13th, 2007

Gizmodo did a ROFL quality post today.
A new Digg policy here, out of respect for the Digg community.
-No badging of articles unless they have original content, new reporting, treatment, or photos.
It’s not fair when we get the Digg for someone else’s work. Let’s keep the signal-to-noise ratio high, dudes.
And btw, Digg user “Iwanttodiggthis,” can you [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 12th, 2007

I’m a ALICE 97.3 fan. I won’t say a huge one, since I’m sure they have fans that go to all their functions and parties they throw. But i do listen to it as my primary radio station. On the morning show they have a guy by the name of Hooman, who [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 12th, 2007

One thing that I’ve seen lately that I’ve really liked was the number of big players that have stood up and started up blogs… and also the great number who have turned to Wordpress.  Well I was sorta of impressed with the fact that Flickr switched their blog over to Wordpress… but that was an [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 7th, 2007

Matt Mullenweg may have wanted WordCamps organized all over the world, but Aaron and I would settle for the one actually being organized. A little more than a month away, and there’s R.S.V.P. list or agenda. As much as we appreciate Automattic organizing the conference, we’re voicing the concerns of a lot of people when [...]

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Patrick Havens on June 7th, 2007

The inaugural post to this here blog was not meant to be one so somber. Those of you who are in the Game Industry know that Development Closures and Lay-offs are all part of the everyday life you encompass out on the front lines. Lay-offs are usually do to the company needing to get rid [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 29th, 2007

Now I read a couple hundred feeds, rarely do I bring the post count down to zero. But this is amazing.
Every morning Robert Scoble starts his day by sifting through 622 RSS feeds. In this interview, he describes the tools and tricks that enable him to accomplish the immense task of personally aggregating the [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 25th, 2007

Who says Madonna can’t be deep. Here are some good truths I thought I’d pass on.
If you want happiness for an hour – take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day – go fishing.
If you want happiness for a month – get married.
If you want happiness for a year – inherit a fortune.
If [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 7th, 2007

…I know how hard it is to reach you so I am posting this here in case you come by. I’m just worried about you, because your at an age– that is hard to handle for a young person. Believe me– I was there once myself. I was about your age when I had a [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 7th, 2007

Aaron Swartz, now in his early twenties, rose to internet fame as technology whiz kid a couple of years ago, working on such things as W3C standards or the Creative Commons. He was also blogger behind the very successful Google Weblog. Via instant messenger, Philipp Lenssen  interviewed him in a very interesting chat on Reddit, [...]

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Patrick Havens on May 2nd, 2007

This morning I went through my email and saw an email from ReviewMe saying that they added a new section called campaigns that you can write on a campaign and get paid a little. Well more out of curiosity then actual need I decided to see what Reviews they had available.

First was some sandle [...]

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