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Just a couple of notes for you who read this. In short, RSS feeds now feature full blog posts instead of snippets; those of you visiting the site can now see a few recommended posts from across the web, thanks to a Google Reader widget on the sidebar, and 9Rules Round 6 starts May 7 at 12:00 AM EST. (If you’re a blogger, this should be of interest.)

Update: Time’s up on the 9Rules submissions. If you submitted, good luck.

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Just a short note: the latest version of 9Rules.com, Ali2, has just been released. If you’ve been to 9R recently, then awesome, you know what’s going on. Stop on by. If you haven’t been to 9R, take some time to check it out, as it’s one of the most informative, helpful, and surprisingly useful comunities on the Web.

This new version of 9R has been redesigned so that the usage experience becomes both more personal and more community oriented. I will warn you, though, the site’s deep. Very deep, lots of pages. In fact, I’d almost say it’s less of a site and more of an online application for information gathering and discussion. This makes it all the cooler.

Anyway, go check it out. If nothing else, it’s a great place to find awesome content. Lots of good business, personal development, science, politics, commentary, and writing blogs.

Disclaimer: Gnorb.NET is a proud member of the 9Rules Community of sites.

I write. A lot. Problem is, a good chunk of it — three quarters, or more, I would venture to say — is total crap. Well, not total, but it certainly isn’t great. In fact, most of it isn’t even good. Nevertheless, I still write. A lot.

If you’ve been reading for a while you know that my posting frequency has diminished from a high of five (and sometimes more) posts per week to a paltry weekly posting. The reason for this is multi-fold, but it really boils down to a few big reasons:

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Just a heads up, I’ve just published an article for a British site, Calling America, titled A Land Not Soon Forgotten. (The title was a play on the title of the book Land Remembered, which traces the story of the fictional MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.) Here’s their synopsis of the story:

A story about a young Puerto Rican boy growing up in the city of Tampa and overcoming cultural differences.

And here’s a clip:

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In college, we called the week right before finals “dead week.” During this week there were no parties, no activities, no outside BBQ’s… Just a bunch of students huddled up in Cooper Hall or in the library, or in the practice rooms, or in the labs and studios, trying to cram a semester’s worth of information into their brains, praying that it stuck there long enough to pass the exam. (Really, did anyone ever study any other way? I mean, outside of those weirdos who actually wanted to learn what they were learning. And post-graduate students.)

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