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Austin Evolution #1

I’m going to start collecting bits and pieces of things I hear that are making Austin better and better. They’ll be categorized under “Austin Evolution,” which (if you’re not in an RSS reader) can be seen to the right. Austin Business Journal reports a pro soccer league is coming to Austin in the 2009 season. [...]

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Why transparency pays

In the past two weeks, I experienced server downtimes of three webservices I’ve been frequenting: Twitter, 37signals (specifically Basecamp) and Tumblr. Since these are all startup companies, I feel I can easily forgive any hiccups in service. On top of their young age, what’s funny is that because these services are all free, I don’t [...]

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Nothin' in the Air

As everyone who isn’t following the imminent Britney meltdown knows, Apple announced a new notebook today dubbed the MacBook Air, which is positioned between their MacBook and MacBook Pro models. The notebook lacks all the conventional peripherals of a normal notebook (such as an optical drive and speakers) to make it the thinnest and lightest [...]

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Flash mob the vote.

Late last month, a blog post was written by a humor columnist for the local Austin paper regarding a flash mob at the Texas State Capital (it was technically mobile clubbing, where people don iPods and jam out to music you can’t hear). The post proposes that if “they” (20-somethings, i.e., my generation) can organize [...]

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Vertical web integration

After much hesitation for having yet another online account, I finally caved and signed up for a Tumblr tumblelog; there are a few things I realized as I did this. When choosing a URL or an account name online, I will try “cesar” or if my first name isn’t available, I default to “cesart,” which [...]

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