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- adjective Having real
substance ;apposite ,pertinent . - adjective Having a
point ; notpointless .
Etymologies
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Comments every so often it occurs to me that i want to record all the books i read with a few lines sam-summary, but i have not yet done this. have you started already? will you use blog to do it then? hmm ... intriguing. i am inspired to begin using my blog for more pointful ends, not just for spewing vast quantities of inanity across the blogosphere. yes, "pointful" is a word, bizatch. and i might also add that spewing inanity certainly has a time and place.
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Drama, Movie Trailers, Kate-Winslet, Leonardo-DiCaprio, Revolutionary-Road, Sam-Mendes ann pointless to you!! very pointful to me!!!
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At no point in the recording does it tell me that my flight and all Continental flights out of Newark HAVE BEEN ACTUALLY CANCELLED so thanks for that pointful bulletin, guys.
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And the small post on accessibility has kind of turned into a state of the genre thing, and is a thousand words long, with digressions and rambling, which I'm not at all certain is pointful because the state of the industry now is actually a year or two old (the consequence of lead-times, among other things).
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Up until this point, I've been hiding behind meaningful, pointful group blogs that are about something.
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Up until this point, I've been hiding behind meaningful, pointful group blogs that are about something.
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And they are arguably much more pointful than the sorts which are not.
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Asking it to explain its motives roughly as pointful as negotiating with an ant colony to get it to abandon your kitchen.
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Asking it to explain its motives roughly as pointful as negotiating with an ant colony to get it to abandon your kitchen.
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Good history of Yahoo's acquisition of Webrings. com and their total failure to do anything clueful or pointful with the community-building code once they owned it.
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