Mokka mit Schlag

I’ve received some more information about H7H6, the banded Canada Goose I first spotted in Prospect Park on January 29 and have since relocated twice.
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I’ve just seen a list of upcoming videogames for the PlayStation 3, and am once again disappointed that Summoner 3 is nowhere to be found. I periodically Google Summoner 3, but no info is forthcoming. I’m not the only one looking.
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As useful as MapQuest and Google Map driving directions are out in the Boonies (i.e. anywhere West of the Hudson, north of the Bronx, or south of Coney Island) they’re rather pointless here in the center of the universe, where:

A. No one has a car.
B. Even if you have a car, you can’t park it anywhere near where you’re going anyway.
C. And it will probably take you longer to drive there than to walk.

In fact, both Google and Mapquest maps usually don’t even bother to show such critical information as subway stations, much less bus stops; forcing most New Yorkers to resort to traditional paper maps most of the time. Thus I was quite pleased to learn yesterday about HopStop, a map service that actually works for people who rely on mass transit (and in New York that’s essentially everyone, at least some of the time.)
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I’ve been playing with adding more Amazon affiliate links to this site (and eventually others) since so far that seems to be the only thing that makes any real money. (Google ads don’t even qualify as pocket money, and Yahoo’s even worse.)

There are a number of ways I can structure these ads. One option is to use plain pictures like these:
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The Intel Mini leaves me feeling a little disappointed. For one thing the price is up, not down. The low end Intel model is $100 more than the low end G4 model was. For another, although A/V functionality has improved somewhat, it’s still not ready to replace my cable box or Tivo or DVD. I’ll probably still buy one of the lowend models to replace the old Dell running this site like I was planning, but I won’t buy an extra one to hook up to my TV like I was considering, and I may wait a little while to buy the first one if this Dell continues to hold out.

I agreed to participate in the beta for Yahoo Ads because they would let me put ads in the feeds, unlike Google; but it was clearly not ready. The targeted ads were incredibly poorly targetted compared to Google AdSense. Perhaps that was just a function of fewer advertisers. I don’t know. However there were two problems that were definitely Yahoo’s fault and convinced me it just isn’t as smart a company as Google:
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