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31
October

Here is my rip off of “Where I’m From” by George Ella Lyon.
I am from CDs
from Cobra Starship and Panic!
I am from the bland.
white, brown; dull.
I am from the cactus,
the mexican claret cactus flowery.
I’m from Christmas parties and cheap gifts,
from Cousin Tracy and Grandma.
I’m from the  independent spirit and optimistic view,
from the birds and the bees and working [...]

31
October

Person of the Year: Elie Khoury

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Most of you might not know the person behind all of Woopra’s services, but its Elie Khoury. This guy never sleeps, I chat with him online and we exchange various billing problems/solutions, we talk about Woopra’s developments, and even about my own projects. He lives in Lebanon and the time difference is +8 hours from Cleveland’s time [...]

31
October

Yes, I know that most of you don’t consider Twitter to be a “place”. However, this year no other “place” deserves the “Place of the Year” award any more than Twitter does. When I started using Twitter, just over 16 months ago, no one knew what Twitter was, I could keep a decent conversation with [...]

28
October

I don’t really know of a perfect song of the year. Personally, I just open up my Grooveshark Desktop and hit “Radio” and let Grooveshark do the rest. I do know that this year, Paramore released a new album, Brand New Eyes, and Brick By Boring Brick is my favorite song on the album, so [...]

28
October

Picture of the Year: Failed Stoplight

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-James Hartig
Citation:
“Street Light Fail.” Cartoon. FAIL BLOG. N.p., 11 June 2009. Web. 1 Nov. 2009.
<http://failblog.org/2009/06/11/street-light-fail/>.

Sometime on September 20th, Grooveshark just registered its 1 millionth user (pictures). That is a crazy amount and a great milestone for the company, especially since there were only 96,151 users last year on that same date. They have recently closed an EMI deal to secure rights to 2+ million of their 7 million songs, [...]

28
October

A Story From My Life

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Day: July, 28, 2009
Event: I visit Grooveshark HQ
I was staying at my grandparents house in Spring Hill, Florida for a few weeks over the summer and my goal was to get a chance to visit Grooveshark HQ sometime. Their offices are located in Gainesville, Florida, which is about an hour from where we were staying. [...]