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"I'm still a happy subscriber. Keep it up! I think your anti-Obama bias might be a small blinder, but I feel that way about both parties so I know where you're coming from." - Mark Collier

"The survEy worked well on an iPhone until the end hen the "see predictions about yourself" link wasn't functional. Also the disqus login UI wasn't visible on iPhone. It's an iPhone world and you have a nice Css for it, but some of the content and tools break down." - Mark Collier

"Cool, thanks for sharing! I can relate." - Mark Collier

They should be careful, given how Gartner is going, they'll probably get a legal notice:) - Aaman (Clone of FF)

All he has to do is be friends with all IT folks. Oh. Wait. He's already done that. ;-) - Victoria Plautia

"Great write up Sachin. If you'd like I can connect you with some of folks at Rackspace to discuss further." - Mark Collier

"Thanks Kim. You should introduce me to your friends. Hope you are doing well!" - Mark Collier

"Not exactly :)" - Mark Collier

"Thanks steve. You gave me my start in BD and showed me how it was done!! I will see you in Austin soon. I'm also hoping to be back in LA in September." - Mark Collier

"You're just mad cuz I converted you to PC in '87 and now I'm abandoning you. OS X is too good to pass up! I did start with a hackintosh before going legit so I still have an ounce of geek cred :)." - Mark Collier

"I learned it by watching you, alright? I learned it by watching you. Hope to see you next month!" - Mark Collier

"Thanks AJ! That beer sounds great. I do get out there pretty often." - Mark Collier

"That leads to the obvious answer: http://awe.sm/12M6 Although there has also been some new research showing that exercise doesn't cause you to lose weight: http://www.time.com/time...,... We just need to cut out the corn starch and we'll be alllllright..." - Mark Collier

"Great recap. Nice balance of commentary and linky dinks." - Mark Collier

"I haven't been since they moved from south congress into downtown (just north a bit up congress from the old spot). I'll be sure to let you know after Sunday's event!" - Mark Collier

"Great show! I miss it." - Mark Collier

"Isn't Mexico running out of oil? I'm not defending anything we are doing with GM, just saying that our reliance on Persian gulf oil isn't a minor problem. That said, the faster we pump it out of the ground and burn it up the sooner we can move on to true independence. That's how how you rip the band aid off." - Mark Collier

"I had trouble seeing the video even though I was logged into the site... then I logged into disqus to leave this commend and voila! the video showed up. So your disqus login may be doing something funky to keep people from seeing the video (if they aren't logged into disqus) -- unless I just had a one time problem." - Mark Collier

"birds of a feather" - Mark Collier

"birds of a feather" - Mark Collier

"Thanks for being a great sponsor! I look forward to meeting you soon. Mark" - Mark Collier

"Thanks Monica. I'll do a lot of hands on demos so I can walk everyone through the process from sign up to posting to finding like minded souls to follow. Then the real fun will begin after the class as everyone (I hope) will jump into the deep end. You can always follow up after the class too (via Twitter, naturally). Looking forward to meeting you and helping however I can! Mark" - Mark Collier

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"Thanks joe. I look forward to meeting you! Are you a musician or manager of an Austin band?" - Mark Collier

"I always knew you were a Buddhist Howard." - Mark Collier

"Is this Whitney video posted somewhere? I'm allergic to CNBC." - Mark Collier

"Love the new blog design, and of course disqus :)" - Mark Collier

"Well said. One of my economics professors used to cite two rules, which seem more relevant than ever: 1) Good intentions are not enough. 2) Markets bite back." - Mark Collier

"The real estate market here in Austin has remained relatively solid, largely due to the fact that prices never doubled our tripled during the boom (except in a few very small pockets). I have seen quite a bit of inventory lately, though, and prices are softening for sure. As I discussed with @ppearlman at Lindonpalooza, the new home business is certainly not good, especially at the low end (no credit) and at the very high end. Builders were throwing up WAY too many 2M+ mansions which were almost entirely marketed to californians coming in with 6 or 7 figures of equity from their home sales there. With that dried up, I'm seeing a TON of "reduced 900k!" listings where homes the builder intended to sell for ~2.5M are now ~1.6M. Last, but not least, we have a ridiculous number of condo projects underway downtown, including a 56 story building. Many that were meant to be owned are now converting to rental units, and a friend of mine recently got a sweet deal on a 1 year rental downtown. As..." - Mark Collier

"You have to keep your guard up from new attacks from the cultural rickrollers. Case in point: http://bit.ly/rickrolling" - Mark Collier

"Great term. It seems to me that the derivatives and lack of transparency around them (what is JP morgan's exposure?) is a far bigger issue than the mortgage loans themselves, but it is rarely presented that way by MSM because it's too complicated. Clearly the lack of transparency was a key failure of government oversight which multiplied the "bad loan problem" many times over. At least, that's my sense of it. Who really knows? Most measures have delayed the daylight IMHO because no one wants to see the ugly truth." - Mark Collier

"Since you asked... I'm a 5th generation Texan and have never lived anywhere else. And you?" - Mark Collier