Observations, rants, and musings by Joe Siegler.

Real, Apple, & iTunes

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In reading my daily dose of tech news, I ran across this story about Real Networks, and their recent reverse engineering of the Apple iPod. The short of it is that Real Networks (a company who I’ve believed to be technically irrelevant for some time now) decided that they were going to essentially reverse engineer […]

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Where’d my Slurpee Go?

Last September, I wrote a blog entry about the greatness that is the Diet Pepsi Slurpee. It’s a great item for folks on a diet, or just don’t want to ingest a bunch of frozen sugar. Problem is that I can’t find it anymore. None of the three 7-11’s in my area seem to carry […]

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New blog layout

If you’re reading this, you’ve noticed my new blog look. This is something I worked up some time ago, but never actually launched, but today decided to go with it. I haven’t totally finished it, some of the sub pages still aren’t finished, but I’m still working on that. So if you see some broken […]

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From the Mind of the Master

At work I have one of those flip calendars where each day is a new saying. Well, the one I have at work is “The Best of George Carlin”. Today’s calendar entry was pretty funny, I thought I’d share it. “There is something refreshingly ironic about people lying on the beach contracting skin cancer, in […]

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Oh please just GO AWAY

Here’s another entry from the “Would you please just GO AWAY” department. A group in Minnesota is protesting the Minnesota Twins’ plan to give away GI Joe doll to kids. I’m so blind with irritation over this, I don’t even know where to begin my rant. People like this just need to GO AWAY. It’s […]

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