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05 February 2009 ~ 1 Comment

Engagement Post-mortem: Lessons

Two weeks ago, if you haven’t heard already, I got engaged to my long-time best friend and girlfriend for almost two years, Maffy. What I can tell you right now is the euphoria one feels right after one gets engaged gets washed away just as quickly with the stress and pressures of wedding talks and [...]

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11 May 2008 ~ 0 Comments

A monster 84-step guide to having awesome breakups!

  
Over at The Man Blog, we have written enough material on picking up women, dating and relationships to make tomes that can fill entire library wings.
What we haven’t had the chance to write about, and something we’ve been feeling remiss about, are breakups.
I mean all of us, at one point or another, will go through [...]

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28 February 2008 ~ 6 Comments

The Beginner’s guide to winning online debates

In the span of over 4 years of kvetching and making fun of all things stupid on various blogs I write for, I’ve received many a complicated and horrendously misspelled email or blog comment informing me in very vivid detail of how much I suck.
I’ve always tried to see these comments or emails as constructive [...]

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17 October 2007 ~ 19 Comments

How to be an Internet Elitist

Although I cannot claim to be a pioneer of what we call today as “The Internet Culture;” I’ve been online long enough to have a fairly good understanding of what internet denizens are like. I vaguely remember going online just to download Alicia Silverstone pictures on a 14.4 KBPS connection or logging in to [...]

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02 October 2007 ~ 9 Comments

Uninstalling Adobe AIR-based Applications from Mac OSX

I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR based apps onOSX for almost 3 months now and I must say that I see nothing but tons of potential for the new runtime environment.
The cross-OS platform uses HTML, Flash and AJAX among others to make highly-functional Rich Internet Applications and deploy them as desktop clients.
Currently, my favorite [...]

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