Reunited... And It Feels So Good

Macbookair
Last Friday, at 5:45 am while catching a flight up to San Francisco for the TechCrunch/August Capital shindig, I clumsily left my MacBook Air in the TSA security bin. I didn't realize this until about two hours later when I went to get my computer to work on the train. 

Completely panicked, I called and left numerous messages with TSA, had my wife go to the airport, and pretty much bummed around all day in a state of shock. I re-played every event and decision, wondering how I could be so forgetful. I also thought about everything I hadn't backed-up. Family photos, work, financial records, and more. Not only that, I had looked at anti-theft services like Prey multiple times, but hadn't installed it, thinking, "It'll never happen to me."

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Tagged Misc

Tonx Coffee

Just had my first cup of Tonx and it is really great! Makes my usual Starbucks pale in comparison. Check them out at: https://tonx.org/

Tonx

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How to Ditch Your Debt

Check it out... no one likes being in debt. Luckily, Payoff.com is here to help.

How To Ditch Your Debt
Source: How to Ditch Your Debt

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Yahoo! Search Direct - Good Start, but I'll stick with Google

Having worked at Yahoo! in Product for almost four years, I not only have a soft spot for the company, but am always interested in any of their new launches. So, of course, my interest was piqued yesterday by the launch of Yahoo! Search Direct.

In Yahoo!'s words, "Yahoo! Search Direct is the next step in offering answers to user's search queries. Search Direct provides users current, relevant content, improved suggestions, a rich display format, and displays answers instantly to the user as they type the search query in the search box."

Ok, sounds cool. I like that as opposed to Google Instant, which offers the same results that you would normally get, but quicker, Yahoo! is trying to give me answers. 

Having worked on Yahoo! Movies for awhile, my first instinct was to do a movie-related query -- Harry Potter. Expecting something related to the movies or books, what did I get? Legos! Nothing on the movies or books in the primary space, but instead results from Yahoo! Shopping that took me to Amazon.

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Avatar Fun - EightBit and Android

Everyone is in love with avatars. So, I jumped in on the action and made a couple with EightBit and Androidify.

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