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Money Matters — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:30:07 -0000

ah yes, taxtweet - i know that texas icon well. enjoy your tweets, and your blog!

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Kay — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:27:36 -0000

Nice job! Thanks for hosting and for including me. P.S. I follow you on Twitter; I'm @taxtweet

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Money Blue Book — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:20:13 -0000

Thanks for hosting!

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Joel — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:34:55 -0000

Whoa. That definition is only ONE of the definitions from Wikipedia. As a computer security professional, I'd point out that most "hacking" involves quick, neat tricks - and is applied to all sorts of fields now (eg. "Money Hacking").

A better definition comes from "The Hacker's Dictionary" (aka "The Jargon File)

hack

1. /n./ Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well. 2. /n./ An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed. 3. /vt./ To bear emotionally or physically. "I can't hack this heat!" 4. /vt./ To work on something (typically a program). In an immediate sense: "What are you doing?" "I'm hacking TECO." In a general (time-extended) sense: "What do you do around here?" "I hack TECO." More generally, "I hack `foo"' is roughly equivalent to "`foo' is my major interest (or project)". "I hack solid-state physics." See Hacking X for Y. 5. /vt./ To pull a prank on. See sense 2 and hacker (sense 5). 6. /vi./ To interact with a computer in a playful and exploratory rather than goal-directed way. "Whatcha up to?" "Oh, just hacking." 7. /n./ Short for hacker. 8. See nethack. 9. [MIT] /v./ To explore the basements, roof ledges, and steam tunnels of a large, institutional building, to the dismay of Physical Plant workers and (since this is usually performed at educational institutions) the Campus Police. This activity has been found to be eerily similar to playing adventure games such as Dungeons and Dragons and Zork. See also vadding.

Constructions on this term abound. They include `happy hacking' (a farewell), `how's hacking?' (a friendly greeting among hackers) and `hack, hack' (a fairly content-free but friendly comment, often used as a temporary farewell). For more on this totipotent term see " The Meaning of `Hack'". See also neat hack, real hack.

http://www.ccil.org/jargon/...

Re: Money Hacks Carnival #6 - Famous Hackers Edition

Austin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:24:43 -0000

Great job. Thank you very much for hosting the carnival and for the inclusion.

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LJ — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:21:27 -0000

Thanks for hosting and including my artcicle!

Great Job!

Take Care

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FFB — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:10:17 -0000

Great work and thanks for hosting! I love the computer hacking facts.

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GBlogger — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:43:04 -0000

Nice work and nice hacking! Thanks for hosting and for the inclusion.

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Pinyo — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:38:01 -0000

Terrific job. Thank you for hosting the carnival