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If you’ve been looking around the Internet saying things like, “Why isn’t Tom on Buzz Out Loud?” or “Huh, I haven’t seen any new videos on CNET TV from Tom lately.” or perhaps, “It seems like a long time since the last East Meets West episode,” then I’m flattered but also worried that you may have developed an unhealthy obesession.

However if these sorts of questions have crossed your mind in a non-chalant manner, and you’re able to take a very beatnik-like attitude of apathy while considering them, appearing unconcerned if you receive an answer or not, then I believe you will be OK. And I also believe you wear a black turtleneck and smoke cloves.

For anyone who fits or does not fit the above description, please be aware that I have taken a brief respite in Arizona where I pan to take the sun for my health, and enjoy games of base ball played on a green field by professionals in the employ of millionaires. I will also eat mexican food. Until I’m done with such pursuits (namely March 18th) there will be no new works of Internet from me.

However, if this leaves you with a little extra time, you may take a moment out from reciting fugues to peruse the back-library of parody news from SuBBrilliant News. I am told doing so would qualify as an “indicator” for some such thing or other in the Diagnostic Statistical Manual. But as I have so often noted, I am not a psychologist.

Monday March 10, at 3:30 PM in Room 8 at the Austin convention center, I’m doing a panel on how to relate to your audience. If you’re at SXSW and you do any sort of content, I hope you’ll stop by. I’m super-excited about the folks I’m doing the panel with. We’ve got Heather Armstrong of Dooce, Casey McKinnon of Galacticast fame, and Chris Smith of Snowmen Hunters.

Sue Gardner from the Wikimedia Foundation came on CNET Live today. I asked her about the controversy surrounding Jimmy Wales.

Watch the interview.

Notepad 2 has a lot more functions than the default Windows notepad. Here’s how to implement it.

Had the honor of being on John C. Dvorak and Sebatian Rupley’s wonderful Cranky Geeks round table. David Spark, an old friend from the ZDTV days joined in as well. Talkin’ Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and more.

Follow this link to watch the episode

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I had the privilege of being interviewed by the fabulously talented Veronica Belmont on her show Mahalo Daily. We talked about publishing your own book on the Internets. I’ve done that twice, and if you’re not careful, I’ll do it again.

Link to the episode

If you’re not afraid of Terminal, you can make OS X write to a Windows partition.

Find this video and more like it on CNET TV.

Oh man. How embarrassing. You must watch this to the end to see the horrible controversial end to the iPhone nose-typing contest. Sad, sad day in sport.

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The most searched-for keywords on News.com

Bruce Damer of the Digibarn is back again to tell how he effectively open sourced the idea of a first person shooter for everyone, by re-discovering MazeWar.