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For any noobs that come around, I'm not posting on Blogger anymore. Come see me at 7 And A Crescent. P.E.A.C.E.

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Sometimes. Sometimes....there are things that go on in our life that need no words. Sometimes...you just can't muster up the right words to speak even though you really want to shout it from the mountaintop. And then sometimes someone else comes along and helps you in a way that words can never express. Before I continue, I have to say thank you to that someone. Thank You.I was 19. Just graduated

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Songs I'm playing crazy on the iPod. Condition of the Heart/Prince/Around the World in a Day Phone Sex/Syleena Johnson/Chapter 3: The Flesh Mamacita/Pharrell Williams/In My Mind My Place/Jaguar Wright/Divorcing Neo to Marry Soul Sincerely Yours/Little Brother/The Minstrel Show Take This Ring/Toni Braxton/Libra America/Prince/Around the World in a Day Lettin' Go/Janelle Monae/Big Boi

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I know that I've been carrying on and on about the Late, Great Professor, but you all have to understand that this is the music that I grew up on. Very influential to me... Anyway, here's a biography on X-Clan. Go check it out. From my man Negro Please....

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Wow. This has got to be the most writing that I have done in a long time. Ahem, anyway, I was clicking around the iTunes Music store and I came across something real interesting: Podslam. Basically, it's a podcast about poetry. What's really dope is that it's all (well just about all..) African-American poets. Some dope stuff too. The best ones that I've watched so far (oops, my bad. They're

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Attention Common fans.....If you are a fan of Chicago M.C. Common, please be on the lookout for the new T.I. CD entitled King. Common spits what I can only call the dopest verse of his career on the song Goodlife, produced by Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes. I don't know, but it seems to me that as dope as Kanye makes Common write, he really seems to rock whenever he works with Pharrell. King

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I am VERY pissed right now. I know that I am violating the cardinal rule of never blogging while upset, but I can't help it. Over at Living Photoshop, the blogs author, Scott details some of the major reasons why Adobe will not be releasing Universal Binary versions of Creative Suite 2 for the new Apple iMac's, MacBook Pro's, and MacMini's. For those unaware, an application that functions as a

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There are quite a few April Fools jokes floating around the net today. This one is funny. So is this one. This one also gets love. But the best by far is this one. Make sure you take the tour and read the Press Release and the FAQ - Priceless! Gotta love 'em!!!

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Well, I know it's been quite a minute since I've posted...school and work plus other tidbits have been keeping me quite busy. Four full-time classes plus 40+ hours a week: That's been my life for the past two weeks. It's cool though because I got to play with Bootcamp, the new Google Calendar and I finally got Yaz's Kiwi theme to work. On top of all of that, I'm starting a new Multi-Media project

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Ok, so David Weiss decided to give you guys a tour of the Machintosh Business Unit's Lab. Great. Peachy. So I figure that since no one else is gonna represent then I'll just have to rep on my own, lol! As many of you know, I work for the University of Cincinnati as a Web Programmer/Software Designer. As it were, many of the students, Faculty and Administrators use Windows to get the bulk of their

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Big Daddy Kane jawn from back in the day. I still think that to this very day, Shyhiem and Hova had the best verses on the record. What do you think? Explicit Lyrics present.

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Another jawn from back in the day: "Can I Get Open?" by Original Flavor featuring a then unknown Jay-Z. Damon Dash was the groups manager at the time and would develop his friendship with Jay-Z during this time period. The group was unabashedly representing Brooklyn to the fullest during their brief recording career. T-Strong would later go on to become a part of the Roc-A-Fella staff (A&R) and

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Jimi Izrael has a really interesting breakdown on the Duke Lacrosse team rape case. He also offers some insight into the culture behind Stripping. You can read all about it right here.

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Ok, so I'm checking out my holmskillet's blog and I see that she got this post about a brotha that has enraptured her mind. After reading the post, I saw that about 22 people had posted comments, so naturally I had to check them out. Folks, let me tell you, I was floored. Let me explain: I wasn't tripping because most of the things that the ladies listed their mates did was shocking. I was

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It's a week or so and some change since Paul Scrivens announced that the 9Rules Network will be holding its next draft round on May 17th. Naturally, the Blogosphere is all ablaze with excitement and angst concerning who will make it into the community this time around. Even though CSS Reboot is this coming Monday, many bloggers, known and unknown are preparing in anticipation of the day when they

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....one used Palm Treo 600 PDA Smartphone. After having used it for about 8 months I've found that it is a little bit overkill for my needs. And that's coming from an uber-gadget junkie nerd. It's still in great condition, no dents, cracks or scratches. It has a VGA camera built into the phone which gives a picture resolution of 640 X 480. It has 24MB of memory built in, plus a SecureDisk/

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After much thought and debate, I have decided to stop updating this blog. I have not been blogging as much as many of you, but I am sure that some of you will miss this place. It's cool, I understand. But guess what? I didn't say that I was going to stop blogging like Dave Winer. No, my friends, I am simply moving all of my time and effort to the 7th Chamber. Why you ask? Mostly because of my

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I shouldn't have left you/without some fly words to rock to..... What's poppin? Told you I'd be back. Just because I set up a new pad to give myself a more professional appearance (did I spell that right?) doesn't mean that I'm not gonna come back to the hood and say "what'up blood? what'up cuz? what'up Gangsta?" My PASS will never get revoked, undadigsme? Anyway, so on to the updates: Classes

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Alright folks. Today's the day. I have finally moved off the block. It's cool though cause I'm still the same ole 'G (pardon, I was listening to Ginuwine earlier..);For any interested, my new address is 7th Chamber. Same guy, a little more professional with the look and writing...really just trying to take things to the next level. Anyway, stop through, check out the new place and tell me what

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This is MomDukes and Me!!! 

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This is MomDukes. 

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I found a new blog client today called Deepest Sender. It's a Firefox web browser extension that lets a user post to either a LiveJournal, Blogger or Wordpress blog account. Basically, how it works is that the user clicks on the application from the tools menu in Firefox. A new window appears in which you enter in your blog account information. After entering in your info, you then sign into

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I found this commercial from a post on Notes from the Underground. I just wanted to re-post it incase no has checked out that blog.

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How fitting that in Black History month the subject of racism should come up. Paul Scrivens, the C.E.O. and founder of the 9Rules Network has given his take on the dispute between Ed Dunn and Mike Arrington. Ed Dunn, who is African-American, is the creator of the Fooky search engine;He feels he's getting snubbed because he's Black. Over at Whitespace, Scrivs, who is half-Black himself, feels that

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Man, I am really starting to love/appreciate my time around the Black Blogosphere. I live in Cincinnati, OH, but here I sometimes feel like no one understands where I'm coming from or what I'm about. But when I start checkin the blogs I either find someone (usually a woman) who either thinks like I'm thinking or breaks down why another point of view is so popular. While searching the comments of

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Well lately, I've been feeling like crap. I was sick day before yesterday (outta the blue, I might add), I don't know why. I just woke up and my body was crazy sore and I had a headache the entire day. Then I couldn't breathe....darn nasal passages! All better now. But I think my mood is really because I'm trying to get my house in order, physically, spritually, mentally, electronically (I'm in

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if anybody is familiar with the 9Rules Community, then you know that member sites have been notorious for providing drop dead gorgeous layouts. Because of such scrutinizing work, Paul Scrivens, the founder and C.E.O. of 9Rules, has been asked to be a judge for pMachine's Shootout contest. Fellow 9Rules member Om Malik will also be a judge in the contest. Check it out and if you've got the design

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Ok, I've managed to calm down from being utterly insulted by the good folks over at Wordpress.com; I am happy to announce that I have a new and better solution: I'd like to introduce you to Blogsome. Basically, it's Wordpress.com, but a million times better. It's hosted by a company based out of Dublin, Ireland. Setting up an account is totally free. The only thing it costs you is the occasional

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Her's some insight into that strange co-worker at the office.

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Ok, I have a confession. For the past few days I have been thinking about leaving Blogger. Yeah, I know, why would I want to do that? Well as great as Blogger is, there is still much that Blogger could be offering as a viable Blog Engine, that they do not. They don't offer storage space to users. You can't seperate posts into different categories. You can't seperate links into different

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All of my fellow N.E.R.D. fans: Pharrell's new video Angel is available for viewing here.

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Man it's hard being me. What are you talking about? Being me: it's damn hard. Are you poor? Kinda. School loans be damned! Are you homeless? Not hardly. Hungry? Nope, just ate a big plate of Pasta. Then what's the problem? Well I'm Black. That comes with it's own set of problems straight from birth. But more specifically, I'm a Black Geek. Being a geek really just compounds the problems that are

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White dudes are SOOOOO crazy! A spoof on Broke Back Mountain. Enjoy!

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I found a new blog buddy tonight: Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Cat. She had a post from earlier in the week in which she was talking about songs to add to her iTunes/iPod. So that got me diggin' into the crates and what I found was this:"My Heart Belongs to U" by Jodeci. Take a listen and reminiece with me...UPDATE: removed multi-media. Will re-implement at a later date.

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On the day of Coretta Scott King's passing, I start to wonder if any of the advancements that she and her late husband fought for have come to pass. In a lot of ways things have changed, while in so many other areas things have either stayed the same or gotten worse (the devastation of Katrina comes to mind...). But I can say that one of the few areas where things are starting to look a little

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While I am in school currently for Computer Programming, a lot of the knowledge that I have attained has been largely self-taught. Lately, I found myself wanting to explore more programming options than just (X)HTML and CSS. Due to the large problems that I've had lately with Web Applications like Bloglines and Newsgator, I think that I want to get into developing Web Applications myself. I

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Ok, I have been working my a$$ off for the past few days. Why? Working on a So-Fresh-So-Clean design for the blog. I have this page with Blogger for awhile, but never really did anything with it. Finally got tired of looking at all this green. Now it's time for something new. So I cranked up Photoshop (CS2 mind you...no Elements!) and got to work.Now, I'll admit, I am not the greatest graphic

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This one right here takes me back to the time when I started studying the Ansaaru Allah. Man that was BACK DAY! Much Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding was gained during this time in my life. See if you can pick out the Ansaaru flag in the clip. Walk with me..... EDIT: Removed the video because WMP is just damn weird!

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The other day I was at school ranting to one of my classmates about how much Hip-Hop culture and rap music has changed. I was telling him that while I do listen to Lil Wayne, Cassidy, Freeway and G-Unit, etc, I was missing the music that i grew up with: Public Enemy, KRS-ONE and Boogie Down Productions, Poor Righteous Teachers, X-Clan, KMD, Just-Ice and Brand Nubian (A Tribe Called Quest, Latifah

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Ok, so I'm testing out this new blog editor Qumana; w.blogger just wasn't working out for me. I always had trouble connecting to my Blogger account and whenever I tried to look for solutions I could never find anything. It's cool though. You just move on to the next one. Anyway, I found Qumana while searching around Google and so far it looks ok. It's not slow like w.blogger was and it's most 

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Ok, finally got my home/mobile office set-up all synchronized. Remember when I said that I had problems getting Ecto to work with Blogger? Never could get it to work. So I broke down and (happily) picked up MarsEdit. If you use a Mac and you blog regularly, I definitely recommend picking this and NetNewsWire up. Perfect combination, plus it synched up with my Blogger account the first time out,

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Ok, well, I'm finally getting my slow as a turtle laptop configured. Actually, she would probably be a lot faster if I just go on ahead and get some more RAM for it. Being in school sucks. I mean yeah sure, I'm definitely learning some great things, but I'm not making any type of real money right now. Yeah, yeah money doesn't mean much, but when you've got rent, electric, food, phone, internet

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A few days ago, Mike Rundle over at BusinessLogs wrote a short post about sites that re-aggregate RSS/Atom feeds for their own personal use. Well apparently that post created a bit of a tizy around the Net, so he has officially responded with this post. Check it out and weigh in on how you feel about it.

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Drunkenbatman has posted a really interesting article in which he explains what Jabber is. For those that don't know what Jabber is or if you just want to know why a man would call himself Drukenbatman, you can read up on it HERE.

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I realised something this morning (it's about 2:40am here). I have so much further to go in my journey as a programmer. What brought this epiphany you say? Spending the past hour trying to configure Ecto to allow me to post to my Blogger account. No matter what I do, I just can't get it to function right. I've been all over the forums for Ecto and apparently there's a bug somewhere

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You know how they have that saying that Art is supposed to imitate Life? Well, boys & girls, I'm here to tell you that it's really the other way around. Case in point: Dame Dash's first foray into movie directing "Death of a Dynasty" distrubted thru Independant film company TLA and produced by Dash's company Dash Films. The movie was shot about a year and a half ago and takes a

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Ok, so like I'm reading the new Source mag, you know, the one wit Dame and Hov on the cover right, and all I could think as I read the article was that things done changed right? The end of an era. F'dat is all I can say. I'm all for change and growing and gettin older, but I feel like when it comes at the expense of others, I don't know. I know you all are scratchin ya heads like "What you

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