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JRinPDX

  1. Updated Facebook: facebook.com/JRinPDX
  2. Married! (in Udon Thani, Thailand) Lovely ceremony, wild party. Marital bliss to ensue (forever, of course!)
  3. SEATAC 5 hr wait to board for Thailand. Plenty of time to catch up on those unread issues of Wired, with a tall mocha.
  4. @SGgrc Hi, Been a fan for what must be 15-20 years. Thank you for everything. Request: VPN coverage similar to your cloud storage podcast.
  5. Just cancelled Angie's List. Website: $29 renewal, but charged $70.80. No warning, no response to call, email, web. Citi reversed for me.
  6. gojee.com Tell it what you have in the pantry and it will suggest amazing recipes. Every one I've tried has been a hit!
  7. A couple of papers on the Global Financial Network (syndicate) ecb.int/pub/pdf/scpwps… arxiv.org/abs/1107.5728
  8. New TV series promises to be fascinating: Morgan Freeman, Stephen Hawking, others. blogs.intel.com/csr/2011/08/wh… #FB
  9. Insightful article from Stratfor re/economic crisis and political economy. stratfor.com/weekly/2011080…
  10. Thinking about a serious camera? Watch Zacuto's shoot-out: snipurl.com/t5xal Two episodes are out. Last year's worth watching too. #FB
  11. Great advice for any industry: jamesgunn.com/2006/11/07/adv… We all need to come to grips with his 3rd question, if we're going to steer our own ship
  12. Nurturing self with young coconut :-) #FB
  13. Wheels up in a few min. Left durian on the deck. I guess the kids get to eat it. :-(
  14. Worldwide cellphone signal heatmaps being built, crowdsourced via Android. Help build it! http://snipurl.com/21imc9
  15. @yourdon 40's Heart Risk (translate.google.com)
  16. SEA to PDX
  17. PDX to SEA
  18. SJC to HIO
  19. HIO to SJC
  20. Global Aging and the Crisis of the 2020s (John Mauldin) http://snipurl.com/1uo2pt