2009 Archives - berbs.us

Merry Christmas, 2009 Edition

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:December 24, 2009
Post Category:Family
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The Berberich family hopes you had a great 2009, and wishes you the very best in 2010! Like all of our Christmas cards, this one was done by my sister,…

The View From My Window

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:December 11, 2009
Post Category:Photos
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I've been a regular reader of Andrew Sullivan's blog for a few years now. His political analysis is top-notch, and I find Andrew's discussion with readers to be consistently thought-provoking…

Google Public DNS and FUD

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:December 4, 2009
Post Category:Google
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Yesterday Google announced the release of Google Public DNS, the company’s free domain name resolution service (if you’re unfamiliar with DNS, it’s the system that translates the human-friendly google.com domain to the computer-friendly 74.125.53.100). This news came as a surprise to everyone, and has generated a ton of coverage by technology bloggers and journalists as a result. Unfortunately, lots of it is utter crap, and gets the story all wrong while instead propagating endless fear, uncertainty, and doubt.

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TweetGenius vs Seesmic for BlackBerry

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:November 24, 2009
Post Category:BlackBerry
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Late last week, Seesmic released new Twitter client applications for Android and BlackBerry. Since I'm currently a happy user of TweetGenius on my BlackBerry Tour 9630, I thought I'd do a…

Frictionless Personal Data Collection with your.flowingdata

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:November 17, 2009
Post Category:Insights
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I really like the idea of these diet/fitness journal websites that let you track your weight, exercises, and food/calorie intake. Lots of other people must too, because if you do…

Quicken Online and Mint

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:October 7, 2009
Post Category:Finance
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A few weeks ago, online personal finance site Mint announced that it was being acquired by its main competitor, Intuit (maker of Quicken, QuickBooks, and TurboTax). Since then, the online…

Britney in Grand Forks

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:September 15, 2009
Post Category:Music
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Last Saturday night Casey and I attended the Britney Spears Circus tour at its stop in Grand Forks. It was quite the experience, and easily one of the city's biggest events…

Cutting The Cable

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:September 12, 2009
Post Category:Technology
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When we got home from our Labor Day weekend at Casey's parents on Monday, not only was our TV showing static instead of cable television, our TiVo service was inactive…

The Food-Health Care Link

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:September 10, 2009
Post Category:Health Care
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This morning I once again had the opportunity to invoke Berberich's Law: Not only did someone write the blog post I meant to write a month ago on the seldom mentioned relationship…

Are Natural Disasters a Sign From God?

Post Author:Jason Berberich
Post published:August 27, 2009
Post Category:Religion
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Last Wednesday afternoon (August 19, 2009), five small tornadoes touched-down in the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota. Among the damage - pretty minor by tornado standards - was the…