Noticed this little quirk this morning.  Reminds me of Lotus Notes.

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Has anyone else noticed all the ads on facebook lately?  If checks are really going out for $17G’s, I’d like mine please.

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I decided to write a BlackBerry Twitter application, bbtweet, as my final project for a course I took this past Fall.  After getting some publicity here and here, the app has gained a minor following.

I plan to keep updating bbtweet as time goes on, so stay tuned to the project page and follow @bbtweet for updates.

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Turns out his Vice President thinks so.  The article, besides the quote, is void of any real content, but the quote alone is funny enough.  I sure hope he’s still up to the job.  :)

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On November 4, America voted for change. And guess what? It’s already here!

President Elect Obama has revised his agenda just a tad, replacing several pages on change.org that outlined his plans with a summary assuring Americans that he does have an agenda and that it is “comprehensive and detailed.” It’s just no longer public, that’s all.

Here’s the new deal. The old deal lives on only in Google’s cache (here, here, here, here, & here.) Alas, the agenda pages on women and on “additional issues” have already aged out of Google’s cache. No worries though. I’m sure they’ll turn up once more people notice. (Thanks to Nate, for noticing and tipping me off.)

Now why would he do something like that? Well, we can’t just have all those campaign promises lying around, now, can we? Oh well. I’ll be hanging on the edge of my seat, anticipating all the exciting changes yet to come!

update: See Nate’s post at Keep N Bear here

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On this day in 1999, today’s money market crisis was born. . .

http://tinyurl.com/99subprime

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What happens when I have a programing assignment due and Jade needs to practice his multiplication tables?  Veeg Destroyer…

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After reading this post a while ago and spending some time thinking about it, I’ve switched over to IMAP for Gmail access on the BlackBerry.  Before I had an elaborate setup, using a filter to forward emails to my blackberry.net device email and then setting the device email to set from and reply-to to my gmail address and auto bcc my gmail address.  All that because IMAP and POP have historically had much slower delivery times on the BlackBerry than the device and enterprise email.  However, as I process more and more email using my device, I always have a pile of unread messages in my inbox whenever I log in to the web interface.  I’ve tested IMAP again and it seems to be working much faster than in the past.  Here are some notables about my new setup:

• Emails read on the BlackBerry are marked as read in Gmail
• Emails deleted from BlackBerry are archived in Gmail
• After creating a ‘Sent Items’ label in Gmail, emails sent from the BlackBerry appear under this label on the web interface.  Conversations stay intact.

Technology wouldn’t be fun without a few caveats:

• Emails read in the web interface are not marked as read on the BlackBerry
• Emails archived or deleted in the web interface are not removed from the BlackBerry inbox
• Any previously archived messages moved to the inbox using the web interface will be redelivered as new messages on the BlackBerry

Now at least messages are marked as read when I view them on the device and I can archive messages from the device quickly to keep them from building up in my inbox.  I still have the Gmail app installed but continue to see that as primarily a tool for searching through historic messages and chats, etc. from the device more than a good way to process incoming email and reply to it.

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I found out yesterday that I made the cover of the March/April Business Advocate. OK, so it isn’t Forbes. How many magazine covers have you made?

The back story is that one of our exec assistants brought a copy down after recognizing me and Adam, a coworker of mine, on the cover. We took a day off work about a year ago to go to a business expo where we apparently were photographed.

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I’ve been meaning to put this up for over a week now…

I had the opportunity to experience a new first class configuration on a newer Northwest Boeing 757-200 OW on one of my flights back from Boston recently. This was the second time I had seen this plane; it was substituted for our scheduled aircraft in both situations.

The first class cabin is completely reconfigured with the seats almost double spaced. While sitting down you cannot touch the seat in front of you with your hands or legs without getting up. The seats themselves are more la-Z-Boy style with four points of adjustment. Besides the standard overhead lights, there is a lamp connected to the seat for reading. Because the seats are spaced so far apart, the trays all fold out of the left arm and can be used either folded in half to the left side or fully unfolded and turned out in front of you. There is a universal power plug on the left by your leg that appeared to support both American and European style plugs. On the right side is a special plug to be used with a multimedia device available upon request. I didn’t request one, so I’m not sure what this looks like or what you can do with it. There is a bracket that folds out of the right arm rest to hold the device. The seats fully recline, almost into a bed-like configuration. I was sleeping with the seat all the way back during landing–whether this is now allowed with these planes or the stewardess simply couldn’t wake me up to make me put my seat up I cannot say.

The coach cabin has more modest updates and seemed mostly the same other than perhaps more comfortable chairs.

I took pictures of as much as I could. Forgive the quality–it was a crappy camera phone. Click any of the pictures below to see the rest of the gallery.

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