First steps with Awesome window manager

Most sections can have subsections: statusbar, for example, is a subsection of screen, tasklist is a subsection of statusbar, and in my configuration file tasklist has a mouse subsection. You can have more than one instance of some …
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How Not to Do An Acquisition: AstraZeneca-MedImmune

When AstraZeneca ponied up more than $15 billion for the biotech MedImmune just over a year ago, the deal suggested that desperate Big Pharmas were willing to open their wallets wide for biotechs without looking too closely into the …
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What to do with your pet while you're on vacation

If you’re trying to plan your summer vacation but don’t know what to do with your furry friend, these suggestions can help.
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Ten Things to Do Waiting in the iPhone Line

So you’ve decided to get an iPhone. Congratulations! If you already have an iPhone you know just what a fantastic experience owning the thing is, if this …
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The new Blade Runner

I have had heteronormativity described to me in the following way: “Here we have a boy robot, and a girl robot.” That kind of makes WALL*E suspect as a progressive piece work of genderpolitik. But I don’t care. It was goddamn adorable. …
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Life Hack 1: Empty Your Inbox (And Keep It Empty)

Anything I can act on immediately will be done; anything that requires more than 2 minutes will be moved to the Task List. I am NOT going to do the spam filter thing on the things that are CURRENTLY spam. Once my Inbox is cleaned out, …
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Britney To Do ANOTHER VMA's Performance???

… told the AP that he would consider having Britney back to sing and dance — we hope! — on the awards show. Of course the 7.1 million viewers the show got last time might have something to do with MTV’s decision! …
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Schedule Your Day to Reflect Goals and Priorities - Part 3 - Understanding Your Rhythm

I had a workshop attendee ask me this once:
“Do you think that if I buy a bunch of watches, I’ll have more time?”
Now, he really was not …
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Notes From the Department of Mistakes Were Made

At this point, of course, it’s all over but the shooting. But this rundown of the US Army’s report on the mistakes made in the occupation plan for Iraq makes for some good, if depressing, reading.
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What to do with the strawberry ice cream

Now all I have to do is make chocolate sauce. In honor of this discovery, I’m going to share my recipe for Mary Gibson’s Chocolate Sauce with you: … Mary Gibson’s Chocolate Sauce. Melt:. 2 squares unsweetened chocolate …
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