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Most Hmm-worthy posts from October 7 - October 20, 2006
- What would your ultimate dream work area be like? (2) [oct 7]
- Review: Sirius Stiletto 100 (0) [oct 10] #1 Google search for the site the last week
- Hmm Interview #2: Jeremy Wright from B5 Media (6) [oct 13]

“Hey great interview, it would even make up for the earlier post I’m happy to be canon fodder if you’d want to interview me…certainly I’d see that any interview you do is constructive and I’d always be happy to make it even more colorful for you.”
– Comment by Duncan — October 16, 2006 @ 2:58 am

- WP plugin Bad Behavior and Techmeme bot conflict resolution (5) [oct 15]

“Yep, I released the workaround. I should point out there will always be blogs that link to stuff on Techmeme but don’t appear. I get daily emails from people who feel spurned. Only about 2% of the time are these Bad Behavior users. It’s just a big web, and Techmeme offers a very small sampler…”
– Comment by Gabe — October 15, 2006 @ 2:56 am

- The iPod exercise purchase (1) [oct 15]
- Not Linked In, thankfully? (6) [oct 16]
- Plasma to be replaced by laser TV? (5) [oct 18]
- Here we blow again: the embarassing IE7 launch (2) [oct 19]

“IE7’s crashed once on me since RC1, with Firefox 1.5 and beyond, it’s pretty much something that happens weekly. With the way I browse, it’s a huge annoyance to lose dozens of tabs that I had open and try to remember what I had and hadn’t seen. It’s good that there’s an extension for 1.5.x to save tabs, and that 2.0 will have it built in, but I much prefered the 1.0.x days when I could just open and open and open them, leave them open for days on end before getting through them, and not have to wonder with each new tab, “Is this going to be the one that crashes them all?””
– Comment by n00b — October 19, 2006 @ 10:52 pm

Historical news events and releases
- Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock and merges Writely with Spreadsheets for Docs & Spreadsheets
- Russian music service AllofMP3 complains over credit card companies blocking their transactions
- Microsoft to accept outside security for Vista
- Second Life plans to start selling last names for $100 setup fee and $50 a year
- Blog Sugar network receives “around 5 million” investment from Sequoia
- Yahoo! Q3 2006 Earnings shows drop in net income by 37.5 percent, sending Yahoo’s stock downward
- Google Q3 2006 Earnings shows the exact opposite, prompting an increase in the stock price
- IE7 released, Dig Dug (400 Microsoft Points) and Lumines Live (1200+ MP) for the Xbox Live Arcade

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Duration: 11:29

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