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Love the speech from Brassed Off - spectacular. - Joel

I'm not sure I can believe this one. - Joel

Get the facts - lots of misrepresentation in the media. - Joel

I sure hope this puts an end to the ................................. links that lead to website about young asian girls. - Joel

We took the kids (minus Gabriel) this weekend too. Really enjoyed it. - Joel

Taxes aren't the problem. It is how taxes are spent. There is a class of people that don't have problems with taxes, they just have problems with how tax revenue is spent. That's why the all encompassing income tax is so painful. In California, 20/22 tax or bond measures passed. 100% the majority of the electorate wanted the additional costs passed to the public (2 didn't pass due to 2/3 requirements). I wonder if taxes would be easier to swallow if we knew exactly where the money was going. Perhaps we should government should give receipts telling you that your tax money bought, for example, a set of tires for a military vehicle. It is always painful to hear people claim that 'well, it's my money that's paying for X project, which I hate.' How do you know? Individual taxes are such a small share of the total, why don't individuals ever say - 'My taxes paid for {something-I'm-proud-of}.' I mean, it's arbitrary to assign your annual taxes to a specific allocation of the federal budget... - Joel

Note very illuminating - "As I say, I don’t have kids, and I don’t know what it’s like to actually face this decision." But I share the concerns. - Joel

sacramento? are you staying up there? You've been at a lot of airports today. - Joel from IM

We travel a lot. I'll be up in Roseville working the whole time I'm here. Won't be able to make it down to the south bay, unfortunately. Nothing planning until August as far as the bay area is concerned. - Rahul Gupta

Opt out? "You received this alert because you’ve shared your location with Peter using Google Latitude, and they have chosen to send Location Alerts when Latitude friends are nearby." Sounds like opt-in to me. - Joel

Seriously thinking about getting someone to clean our place. - Joel

I still have invites, if there are folks that want a new phone number. - Joel

- people are all excited here. Esp. those that recently moved here. - Joel from IM

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqu... - Google onebox comes in handy. - Joel

*with* t-mobile, from Google :) - Joel

- you mean, two of the last three years were bad b/c you made babies? What's wrong? - Joel from IM

I think you can just add the nearest location and start adding venues - Joel from IM

This is great. I particularly (much to my wife's chagrin) like point #3. 5. These Aren't Vampires. Or Werewolves, For That Matter 4. You Don't Subscribe To Tiger Beat 3. Bella Is A Spoiled Brat 2. Edward is Annoying 1. You Saw Twilight - Joel

I have a 'family' group just for this reason. Otherwise, I'd always miss things. - Joel

I'm a huge fan of progressive taxes. - Joel

PO Boxes have proven unverifiable and are called out as such. We're working on providing the right solution for businesses that need to hide a home address, however. - Joel

ironic, isn't it? ;) (you can use cyrket.com if you need it) - Tim Hoeck

is there some kind of magic that happens in the android to add search or other features in the market? - Mike Chelen

The only thing that will kill the iPhone (IPhone?) is Apple. - Joel

Christians = naturally annoying. - Joel

This is my first blog ever, saved before Geocities could balete it forever (from back when you could use blogger to post to geocities). I didn't change anything so prepare for some grammatical and spelling errors. The ramblings of a 21-22 year old are ahead. - EricaJoy

Sounds like you trained her well :) - Joel from email

Sounds like someone who understands gwave. - Joel

The blue pin is there - it's just hiding behind the "D" marker. - Joel

So happy to hear they're thinking of Android. - Joel

who was thinking you were doing it in a dirty way? Of course it is dorky :) - Joel from IM

“'It creates a business out of distributing movies made by other talented people, without committing our own capital,' said Mr Iger." It will be interesting to see how big movie production companies produce movies for the long tail. - Joel

just takes me to the Facebook home page - Chris Rogers

Sorry. My Facebook stuff should be open to the public. EIther way, it was autoposted to my friends from http://scobleizer.com -- I will remove Facebook from FriendFeed anyway to reduce the noise. - Robert Scoble