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I have 2 gift subscriptions to Audible.com to give away (risk free) and I figured randomly was the fairest way, and having a drawing was possibly also more fun than just asking who wanted them and giving them out on a first-come first-served basis.

The gift subscription requires NO credit card and will NOT automatically turn into a paid account at the end of the 3 months. During the 3 months you can...
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Coming to Terms with the New Gmail: 5 Tips to Smooth the Way

So Gmail has decided that it’s updating its layout and there has been a loud and mighty outcry against it. Aside from complaints about primarily aesthetic things such as the replacement of handy text buttons by somewhat hard to parse icons, there are some more valid complaints about the difficulty in actually using the new Gmail. It’s hard to find things that were at your fingertips with the old layout.

In this article I’m going...
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Link exchange, anyone?

I’m opening up the bottom slot on my site to links to other people’s websites in exchange for a return link to opalcat.com. I used to have an ad down there for mobile phone screen protectors but nobody ever bought them so I took it down. I’d like to help promote other people’s websites instead.

If you’re interested, all you need to do is put a link to my site on your page and then...
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Google+

So I’ve had a Google+ account for about a week now. Been trying to play around with it. So far I like it, but it’s hard to compare it to Facebook because so few people are in my “circles” compared to how many friends I have on FB. Go ahead and add me to your circles if you want to play around with it. If you want an invitation to the beta test, you...
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May 2008 Newsletter

Well it’s been a while since the last newsletter. As far as the website goes, I’ve upgraded the software I use to run it, and after working out a bug where all of the titles vanished, it seems to be quite stable. I’ve added a few features. One is a copy&paste bit at the bottom of each article on the off chance anyone wanted to link to it. Another is an additional search box at...
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I'm So Sick of Lyrics Websites!

So I’ve been listening to a lot of Sinead O’Connor in the car, and belting along at the top of my lungs (a pastime I’ve enjoyed since high school, might I add) but there are always a few little bits here and there that I can’t quite make out. Even after all these years of singing the same songs, I either never knew or I knew and then forgot the tricky bits. And so tonight...
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