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Why I Joined Twitter

Posted on 07. Jan, 2010 by Bran Rainey.

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I join all the social networks, but I do so gradually, with the knowledge that I’m never going to get what I expect out of the experience. Thus did I join Twitter. But to truly understand my experience with Twitter, you need to understand how I got to this situation…

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Scrobbling: a blessing and a curse

Posted on 29. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Last.fm is a lot of fun, but it might have some unexpected consequences. It’s actually pretty predictable if you think about it. Isn’t a large portion of the music industry funded by people’s egos? I do recommend that you join the site if you haven’t already, but I won’t hold it against you if you choose not to. Not everyone likes to be part of the high-horse circlejerk that Last.fm can easily become.

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Top Ten Reasons Why Urban Dead is Awesome

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Urban Dead is an awesome low-tech browser game by Kevan Davis. The premise behind the game is that you’re in a quarantined city named Malton, either fighting for survival against zombies, or fighting for tasty brains. Urban Dead has proven itself to be pretty damn awesome over the past few months, and I feel like I wouldn’t be doing it justice if I didn’t make an attempt to advertise it. So here’s my top ten reasons why Urban Dead is the best browser game ever.

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Internet Explorer 8

Posted on 25. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Microsoft definitely made a huge step forward with the release of IE7, so why should anything be different here? I hoped that, with Firefox’s market share steadily rising, they might feel the heat and really go the extra mile. Turns out I was wrong, but not by that much. IE8 follows in the proud Internet Explorer tradition of being confused.

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Five web design patterns that I hate

Posted on 23. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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Web design has generally improved with time, but there have been some advancements in web technologies that have only decreased the quality of web design. So, just to rant a little bit, I’m going to talk about five web design patterns that I hate.

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Top four worst things about Firefox

Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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It’s time to rant about the four things I absolutely hate in Firefox. Why four? Because I couldn’t think of a fifth one, so I just gave up and made it four. This is not about extensions, since you can easily ignore those, but rather about forced features of the browser.

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Top five Firefox extensions

Posted on 20. Oct, 2009 by Bran Rainey.

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One of the greatest things about Firefox is its enormous community of people working to make new extensions and themes. Without this community, I would just use Opera. I’ve been a Firefox user since before version two came out, and I’ve seen things come and go a lot, but some extensions just can’t be shaken. These are the top five Firefox extensions.

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