No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Excellent roundup. Have about half of them. Collected the other half.
Ain’t pro yet, but I’ve gotta be the blogosphere’s longest running underachiever

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Please explain what the saying means: NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED~in shirt sleeve english~
Thanks,,,
Here was my reply:
Hi,
I’m assuming “shirt sleeve english” means simple speak…
Here’s an example:
You find someone’s wallet containing $1,000 but the IDs missing. Instead of keeping the
money, you take it down to the police station, walk [...]

You may not have heard about this, but Userland Software founder Dave Winer has reaped the whirlwind in the past few days for deciding to stop hosting a bunch of weblogs for free. Here’s a link to some of the press he got.
Dave Winer, for all intents and purposes, gave us the first good tools [...]

Okay…Checking out Scripting News tonight and Dave Winer’s having trouble watching American Splendor on his Thinkpad. Great movie. Great job in the Harvey Pekar role by Paul Giamatti. Love the film.
Here’s the strange part. Rewind a few months. I’m back in Chicago having just emptied our house, getting ready to close on the sale. Movers [...]

It’s called Worthwhile. Very nice. Good readin’.