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The outgoing horror known as the Governor of Ohio, Bob Taft, vetoed HB347. The House overturned it by a huge margin and just today the Senate passed it 21 - 12 (it only needed 20 to override). It will become law in 90 days. Odds are there will be some legal challenges that may hold [...]

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It might not look too differant, but the theme changed. I stopped using Canvas, a great plugin for WordPress and started using the Tarski theme directly. The newer version of Canvas requires PHP 5, which my ISP doesn’t have yet do to backwards compatibility issues with some older PHP scripts.
There are a few issues being [...]

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If you have gotten Spam from brianathomas.com, please read below the break. The short of it is, it isn’t us but somebody pretending to be us. We don’t spam.

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Verizon quoted a customer a rate of 0.002 cents per kb, and repeated that was indeed the rate a few times after they made a huge billing error. They then charged the customer $0.002 per kb. What should have been a bill for $0.7179 ended up being $71.79, that’s two decimal places off, so a [...]

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Here are the Go Books I currently have:
First is Janice Kim’s excellent Learn to Play Go series. These are basically English translations of books from the Korean Go Association. Very good books to have in your Go library. Some say the problem is that it is spread across so many books, and you get the [...]

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A senior economist on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, Dan Miller, says that it is just a question of when, not if, that people will be taxed for virtual assets, even if they are not converted to actual cash.
Let’s say you play World of Warcraft. Your character wins a sword with x number of virtual dollars. [...]

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