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What's the purpose of having jumps ("Click for more...") on long blog articles?

I'm not talking about sites that break stories across 10 short pages so that they can expose you to 10 times as many ads. I mean the click-once-to-read-the-entire-post style that I very often see on popular blogs. Random example: Andrew Sullivan puts a "Continue Reading [topic]..." link at the bottom of posts which reach past a certain vertical length, maybe one out of every four of the posts on the front page.

I can guess some reasons, but what reasons does the conventional wisdom hold? (Yes, I'm wondering if we should institute something like this for the Gameshelf.)
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I am starting to suspect that you cannot send an MSN Messenger IM to someone unless both you and the intended receiver are on each others' contact lists. Is this true?
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Dear Lazyweb,

What do you use to crosspost status updates on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so forth?
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So when I learn that there's a show goin on after 9pm at the Middle East, but its website sez its box office closes at 7pm, does that mean I'm out of luck (unless I leave RIGHT NOW and then kill two+ hours), or will they sell me tickets at the door anyway?
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Wondering if any of you iPhonesters might have an idea what's going on with my toy...

For several days, my iPhone's connectivity via 3G has been so slow as to be functionally useless. Safari often times out before even starting to load a page (and the model page I'm using is www.google.com). Sometimes it gets partway it and craps out, so it doesn't seem a DNS issue or anything. Other internet-using applications work so slowly that the phone usually locks the screen before anything interesting happens.

I was wondering if I maybe knocked its internal antenna loose or something, but phone calls still work fine, so it's probably not that, right?

WiFi works fine. Cycling the phone does not fix this.

This is a hard topic to google, becuase most of the results are about the slow rollout of 3g iphones in july. Frowny.

Edit: I just learned that you can shut off 3G to opt for Edge-only connections, so I tried that. Edge is failing too. :(
prog: (galaxians)
How do you find other players for games that aren't the top five FPSs? I don't know! I'm asking!

It seems that for any game other than Halo / Gears / TF2 / wev, the only way to get a decent XBox Live game going is to contact remote friends offline and set up a game. The Quick Match button is almost always futile, and plenty of games that seem like they'd be plenty of fun online and aren't even two months old (yes, I'm thinking of Schizoid) seem to have approximately zero joinable custom matches going on, at any given time.

This is rather crying out for a user-made scheduling system, and you'd think that it would exist already, but I'll be damned if I can find one.
prog: (The Rev. Sir Dr. George King)
Google and Wikipedia aren't coming through for me on this one:

Imagine that we have a utility which, in the course of its duties, reads and writes files to a file system.

What sorts of behaviors would make it not NFS-safe? I thought NFS was totally transparent to man and beast alike, but perhaps this is not quite so?
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Any recommendations for blemish-covering makeup that I could get at CVS or whatnot? I just managed to nick myself no less than three times shaving, and there's a shoot in less than four hours. Bleah.
prog: (Default)
I am almost done with this health insurance application; now I just need to pick a PCP.

Any locals got recommendations? (I am going to use Harvard Pilgrim, fwiw.)
prog: (Default)
Is $260/month a decent price for health insurance for a self-employed 33-year-old? I've never had to do this myself before, so I really don't know.

It is one of the cheapest offered by the folks I'm talking to, with a nice office & checkup co-pay, but no meds and a crap deductible. I currently do not take medicine, though, nor am I prone to expensive procedures, so it seems like a good place to start.



Yes, you may infer from this that I've decided to stick with the indie-contractor lifestyle for the time being. I like it.
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I figure at least a handful of y'all know a little something about the Creative Commons...

If a work is under the CC "no derivatives" clause, does that mean I can't use it as a TV show soundtrack? It's not clear to me whether the admonition means that I can't make a new piece of the same kind of media out of it - use it as a sample in my own composition, that is - or whether I can't redistribute it in any form at all other than the pure-audio shape I found it in.

Edit Aw nuts, The CC FAQ sez yes it is derivative.

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