CJC.org » General http://www.cjc.org/blog Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:54:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Key West http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2011/02/22/key-west-2/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2011/02/22/key-west-2/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 12:22:25 +0000 Cheng http://www.cjc.org/blog/?p=129083 Back to Key West, a week away from the snow and cold: Florida 2011

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]]> http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/05/04/plastics-recycling-system/feed/ 1 Gizmodo is Hiring an Editor http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/04/05/gizmodo-is-hiring-an-editor/ http://www.cjc.org/blog/archives/2005/04/05/gizmodo-is-hiring-an-editor/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:58:35 +0000 Cheng /?p=128966 Gizmodo is hiring an editor. After some encouragement from friends, I’ve sat down and wrote up the requisite three Gizmodo-like stories on tech products and thrown my hat into ...

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