DISQUS

Since you've already done the combo updater, I'd suggest
• Reset PRAM.
• Archive & Install.
• Genius Bar

I'm going to armchair quarterback this, but I think I know why you posed the original question.

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Russia is as much of a unified 'country' as the United States. A federal republic of semi-autonomous subnational entities.

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Russia's population distribution is heavily concentrated in the European part of Russia. Map.

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Moscow, the largest city, is extremely wealthy as compared to the rest of the country. Something like 90% of the wealth in all of Russia exists in Moscow.

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Wealth and population concentrated in the European part of Russia means that the only media or people we Westerners come in to contact with are usually from that area.

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There are Asian-looking Russians. A good customer of mine a few years ago was this short, attractive, middle aged woman. Visually, she appeared to be very Chinese. When she spoke, however, it was with a thick Russian accent. After knowing her for some time, she shared her story, which involved emigrating from Vladivostok (Russia's largest Pacific city) to California.

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The division between the European and Asian continents is largely artificial (some even claim it has more to do with racism/culturalism versus plate tectonics). The Eurasian Landmass is the more appropriate term, according to the geologist I know.

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I'm going to armchair quarterback this, but I think I know why you posed the original question.

<ol>
<li>

Russia is as much of a unified 'country' as the United States. A federal republic of semi-autonomous subnational entities.

</li>
<li>

Russia's population distribution is heavily concentrated in the European part of Russia. Map.

</li>
<li>

Moscow, the largest city, is extremely wealthy as compared to the rest of the country. Something like 90% of the wealth in all of Russia exists in Moscow.

</li>
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Wealth and population concentrated in the European part of Russia means that the only media or people we Westerners come in to contact with are usually from that area.

</li>
<li>

There are Asian-looking Russians. A good customer of mine a few years ago was this short, attractive, middle aged woman. Visually, she appeared to be very Chinese. When she spoke, however, it was with a thick Russian accent. After knowing her for some time, she shared her story, which involved emigrating from Vladivostok (Russia's largest Pacific city) to California.

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The division between the European and Asian continents is largely artificial (some even claim it has more to do with racism/culturalism versus plate tectonics). The Eurasian Landmass is the more appropriate term, according to the geologist I know.

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I was going to mention the same thing, Michael.

I was going to mention the same thing, Michael.

I'm enjoying FriendFeed quite a bit, but I'm not a big fan of the "XXX (friend of YYY) posted a ZZZ." If someone is popular, *cough* then there's a lot of irrelevant stuff posted.

Microsoft
Cisco/Linksys
Somebody weird and unexpected, like Scientific Atlanta

I'm glad they haven't completely abandoned Toast 8 users. I rarely use TTG, but when I do, I'd like it to work correctly.

No problems here, other than Twitter's sporadic downtimes.

I use Twitterrific with the menu bar icon disabled, and the dock icon enabled, if that makes any difference.

Following fellow twitterers then subscribing to their blogs is exactly how I found yours :-)

It's great to see you back on Twitter, Leo. It's been far too long.

Congrats to the Mann family. She's a beautiful baby. I love Merlin's expression when he found out how much Eleanor tipped the scales with:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/merlin/1784116579/

The stuffed TiVo doll just pushes this package over in to awesome territory.
http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2007-10/want-the-ti...

Thanks, Dave :-) I got my two Series2s signed up.

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I get a Page Not Found error. Perhaps it's not actually published yet?

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