The Rhetorist

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Archive for September, 2011

New Coming Facebook Timeline! Here And Now!

Facebook this week announced the introduction of the Timeline feature for users starting October 1 but as Developers we have access to the app creation early. But the results of our timeline tinkering can only be seen by other developers, so, I am putting up an interface that uses the  [ Read More ]

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Vultures Float Our $$ @ Our Expense

I have one particular VISA card that likes to do this: I make a large payment, say $100+ over the amount due, and then wait while the funds remain inaccessible for a period of 7-10 days, depending how generous they are or how much that + translated to in the  [ Read More ]

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Hitting The Book

Forced back into the career realities today as my book review for Invisible Culture is due tomorrow. In the works for a really long time, will be refreshing to submit this and put it behind me. The book I am reviewing is Critical Terms for Media Studies, edited by W.J.T.  [ Read More ]

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Lite Review: Bread and Circuses Bistro

I ate at this place last week, had a veggie panini and enjoyed it, so I returned. Today’s experience was underwhelming. I asked the waitress what she ate from the menu and she did not have a favorite, so…. I wrestled with the panini that worked or something new. I  [ Read More ]

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Blessed Be the Ties that Break

All I can say is I feel like a weight lifted off my shoulders today as I exported my MS Exchange files from the Towson University servers and set up the vacation message to redirect incoming email. And that was not an expected feeling, but when it was done, I  [ Read More ]

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Bad Business: Your Media News Choice Is Co

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Why I Deactivated Facebook

(S.urveillance) (T.imeline) (O.bligation) (P.rivacy) S.urveillance - From cookies and the curious to ...

A Time To Rule and A Time To Resign

UC Davis Assistant Professor Nathan Brown has demanded the immediate resignation of ...

On the Clouds Again

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