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- Got a blog or another website containing words? Then you, too, can have your own “word cloud.”<\/a> Why?, you may ask. Why not?, I may reply. And then that brief exchange might someday appear in my own cloud. Here’s an example created from the Gazette’s home page of a few days ago:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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<\/p>\nI’m not thrilled about having “coach,” “Mack,” and “Austin” appear in my cloud, and I could have actually used a feature in Wordle to remove those or any other words from the cloud had I so desired.<\/p>\n
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- Starbucks has finally rolled out an iPhone app<\/a> for locating its stores. It’s free and it works great, unlike some of the third-party apps whose performance is rather dodgy. (I finally now know where the SBUX in San Angelo is located!)Also on the drawing board from Starbucks is an app that will allow you to use your iPhone as a Starbucks card for purchases. It’s now being tested in certain locations in Seattle and the Bay Area of California, according to this post on the Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lotsa fascinating stuff around the web lately, to wit: For anyone who loves to read, bookshelves are a necessary evil, at least for those who haven’t yet drunk the Kindle Kool-Aid. For one thing, they take up space that might otherwise be productively employed to showcase big screen TVs. However, with a little imagination (and… Continue reading Random Thursday – The Wednesday Edition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thursday","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8778,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/8778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Starbucks has finally rolled out an iPhone app<\/a> for locating its stores. It’s free and it works great, unlike some of the third-party apps whose performance is rather dodgy. (I finally now know where the SBUX in San Angelo is located!)Also on the drawing board from Starbucks is an app that will allow you to use your iPhone as a Starbucks card for purchases. It’s now being tested in certain locations in Seattle and the Bay Area of California, according to this post on the Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"