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The Juggernaut of Jobs has done it again! Apple’s new Boylston street retail store is now officially open, with a shindig planned from 6-11 this evening.

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If the current state of affairs regarding the New York State taxman and his “I’m gonna git you sonny” internet vendor legislation wasn’t bad enough, Overstock.com just cut it’s 3,400 New York affiliates off.

Basically, the legislation states that any internet vendor having business ties with the state can be taxed. Affiliate marketing programs fall under such jurisdiction. If you’re not familiar with how affiliate programs work, it basically breaks down like so; I’ve got this wicked awesome site where I talk about pretty pictures. I link specific Nikon gear on my site to Amazon.com via the associates program. If Joe Schmo decides to drop the scheckles on that new D300 and he arrived at Amazon via my link, I take home a slice of the pie. Ok, it’s not a slice big enough to get ME a new D300, but over time, enough linkage and clicks and purchases can add up to a decent amount of Amazon gift cards.

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The Wacom Tablet has really got me enjoying photoshop a LOT more these days. I went for an hour long walk through my neighborhood yesterday, camera in hand, and shot a few images. And while it’s yet another sunny day here in Vienna, I’m off to the farm this weekend, so I ix nay’d the walk down to Schönbrunn this morning to grab some images of the Royal Castle.

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I woke up this morning a bit usual than normal (and after a few Jack and Cokes last night, that in itself should have been and accomplishment) and couldn’t help but notice the crystal blue sky. Not a cloud in sight. For our readers from California, this might not seem like such a bit deal, but living in Vienna, a cloudless morning is something to celebrate. My mind immediately thought of my camera, and so it was…today I was going to shoot…shoot something…anything.

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If Thinkgeek’s Wi-Fi Detector Shirt wasn’t enough for you mstrpln and Ubiq boutique have combined forces to bring you the ASRD shoe.

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In case you’ve been living in a cave for the past few days (or on one heckuva drinking binge) Microsoft withdrew it’s offer to purchase Yahoo! on Satuday.

Not surprising, as this merger had red tape written all over it, but what really gets me is even as he’s trying to be polite in his letter to Yang, Ballmer still manages to end up sounding like a douchebag. In his official letter to Yang, Ballmer slams Yahoo!/Yang for considering outsourcing search advertising to Google (which is a whole other can o’ worms in itself), sighting that it would cause Yahoo! engineers to run for the hills, ultimately raising prices for advertisers (douchebag).

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I recently purchased and received two new pairs of New Balance kicks. The 570 for everyday city crossings, and the 8508 for some serious street pounding running. I’ve been a fan of NB for a long time now, and while it’s possible to get New Balance in Austria, finding them in a size 38 48 (US 13) can be quite a problem. I’m convinced that there are only a select number of men living in Vienna that have feet larger than a size 12. 12 is usually the max I can find. Maybe I should form the große Fußgemeinschaft (big feet community) and lobby for bigger shoes.

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3000 BC: Fred Flintstone ends day by listening for high pitched squawking bird. Quarry Foreman spends hours pouring over timestones at the end of the week.

1634: Bells signal farmers to and fro the fields. Hungover bell maid causes hours of lost wages as farmers stand poised at edge of fields.

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Sounds like the intro to a joke eh? Bear with me, and I’ll tie these three together, and (try) to make a decent point.

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Just as the title says…this work is a Jazzy Kinda Sum’n.

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Oqo, makers of the ultra small, ultra hip mobile commuting solution have a bit to celebrate today. Over at the Oqo forum, OqoTalk, a user by them name of TRF has posted that he’s successfully managed to hack the OQO to run Leopard.

The OQO Model 02 is frequently used by a number of mobile professionals who need to capture, edit, produce, blog or access information in real time. The OQO Model 02 is used by professional photographers for example at the Superbowl to provide real time uploads of their images to media outlets who then in turn can publish these images within seconds.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I think I might have accomplished my mission. Bigbluebottle has finally jumped into the game! Sure, he’s got bigbluebottle.com and a few other smaller blogs that he works on, but nothing that I would consider ‘taking the plunge’. Bottle’s got a head chock full o’ information about the tech and IT world, and I’ve been urging him for a while now to leap into the frying pan with the rest of us, and start contributing content to the world wide internets.

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In case you’ve not already received about 86 notifications from your facebook account (which you can turn off in the preferences section), facebook went live with their chat a few hours ago, and I’m being blown up with notifications.  That being said, I’m in Europe peeps, what the HECK are ya’ll doin’ up so late?

OO oo!  New toys!

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If the original 24k Gold Macbook wasn’t enough for you, Computer-choppers let their 24k Gold and Sapphire MacBook air loose on the market today.

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I’m just a little short of one week with my new MacBook Pro, and I’ve already decided that it’s (almost) the love of my life. I was talking with an uninitiated the other day, and she asked me why I love it. I honestly had to stop and think for a minute, as there are so many reasons, but I wanted to put it in plain and simple words she could understand. My answer? ‘Because it just works’.

Simplicity
Since this silver bundle of joy is brand spanking new, it shipped with Leopard, so I don’t really have a version comparison to make, but all I can say is that OSX Leopard is probably the most intuitive OS I’ve ever worked with. Sure, it’s different from winblows and yes, it’s going to take you a minute or two to get used to it. But once you do…things just start making sense all of a sudden. There’s that lightbulb moment of, yeah…that was easy, why was that so complex with winblows?

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