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1 September 2007
Newbie
Caesar (the new kid, stage right) and Prince try to work it out.
1:35 AM
4:55 PM
links for 2007-09-01
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“After the first 10 minutes Jason was shouting at the TV to “make the freaking plane cold! 50 degrees! Snakes are cold-blooded!”
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Drag and drop ringtones to the iPhone, without having to jailbreak it. Nice.
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“is film examines a 150-year-old cross in France, a Stonehenge-like structure in Georgia and Masonic connections in Washington, D.C. It concludes at DIA, where Weidner shows the capstone located in the terminal’s Great Hall — a name that’s no accident, s
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How to kill meetings.
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$5 an episode? I don’t think so, and neither did Apple. As I believe the kids these days say, dude, NBC got pwned.
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Wow.
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One of the 10 most influential moments on TV.
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How to anonymize your traffic.
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Includes a very good Remove Duplicates… script. (When did I get to 44k email messages?)
2 September 2007
7:40 AM
links for 2007-09-02
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Passed from projector to Mac to projector to Mac…
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“I’ve yet to see any other comments on the Dock being used on the side of the screen. This may be because those who’ve tried it have been stricken instantly with vertigo and had to go lie down for a bit. “
3 September 2007
4:57 PM
4 September 2007
5:15 PM
links for 2007-09-04
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Anything but boring. “These are not stupid people. And they are not un-greedy. Which means their desire for more money and more control and more freedom will lead them to apply their energy into figuring out how to get out of the plantation the TV networks have created for them. They will break free. Mark my words.”
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“Love the passive voice.”
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Word 5.1a WAS the best version Microsoft ever shipped.
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“You were too beautiful for this digital world.”
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“To be honest, most of my pictures suck. The saving grace of that admission is that most of your pictures suck, too.”
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Just released. I continue to be on the fence, but I think I may fall to one side or the other now.
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I once had a conversation with several Trilogy developers where we all admitted that the first thing we learned how to code was a D&D application. (This is a bit better than our first attempts.)
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The comments thread is especially interesting.
5 September 2007
8:52 AM
links for 2007-09-05
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(It’s not the iPhone.)
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Great simple how-to.
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Removes crap from your PC. FINALLY TRUTH IN ADVERTISING.
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“His goal is to create a rigorously scientific work of sf that turns kids onto sf.”
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“But as it turns out, even something as seemingly mundane as a Mac app can have a few marginally interesting, if not truly nerdy, stories of its own.”
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“n November 6, 2005 the Tatmadaw military government surprised the world when it announced it had moved the capital to an empty tract of farmland 230km north of colonial capital Rangoon. No one knows exactly why.”
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In the new century, no one will walk… hey, wait a minute…
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On radical honesty.
6 September 2007
2:00 AM
1:43 PM
links for 2007-09-06
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Sesame Street appears to be the only thing that’s still worth watching.
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(A third of the way up.)
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Having bought two iPhones (one of which is now $200 cheaper, another of which is discontinued), I will try all five avenues and report which works best.
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Ha. Needs an update to Tiger, though.
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Out now.
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“Who knows. Maybe Apple does have some plan to make it up to us. I hope they don’t think the ability to buy music over WiFi is it.”
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Sadness compounded.
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Good comparison to other phone price cuts.
Swiping a Toughbook
Trip was playing with his dvdvdvdeees tonight when he saw that Merrystar was on her computer. He walked over, climbed up on the couch, and looked over her shoulder.
Her: “That’s Noah, and that’s his mommy.”
Him: “Dats Noah, and dats his mommy.”
Her: “Would you like to see pictures of Trip?”
Him: Makes agreeing noises. Merrystar calls up his site.
Him: “Backhoeses!”
And then he reached out and tried to swipe the page on Merrystar’s Toughbook, just like it was an iPhone.
Me: “You’re going the wrong way.”
Her: “You hush.”
Him: “Boats! T-t on the boat!” more swiping motions, more of the page not going the right way.
I find it both wonderful and a little scary that my son knows that much about using my iPhone already.
Epilogue
After Trip had gone to sleep, we had the following exchange:
Me: “Finally, I found something your computer can’t do.”
Her: Swipes at my laptop screen. “Doesn’t look like yours can, either.”
Have I ever come out ahead in these?
Don’t answer that.
10:24 PM
7 September 2007
12:20 AM
9:06 AM
2:51 PM
6:49 PM
links for 2007-09-07
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How to set up templates in MarsEdit. I actually like the simplicity of the default templates, but … well, that’s not really a surprise, now is it.
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DO NOT JAILBREAK STOP WAIT FOR NEW INSTALLERS STOP AVOID ENEMY FIRE STOP
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Another great one: “Your $40 does not buy you even the smallest right to abuse me. That you get to abuse me at all is simply generosity on my part. I’ll give you your money back, but I will not take your shit.”
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Research is ongoing, but looks promising for understanding CCD.
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“After hearing (or reading) story after story, I was amazed by how closely these people had come to know the departed. Whereas I play the game for recreation, it had become their full-time community.”
8 September 2007
1:31 PM
2:46 PM
Chowning's Tavern
links for 2007-09-08
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Excellent overview of her life and works.
10:52 PM
House Sparrow
A House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) sits on my stoop.
11:21 PM
9 September 2007
12:54 AM
The Approaching Storm
Nothing like the approach of a tropical storm to liven up your forecast.
2:10 PM
2:18 PM
Why is Rice still in I-A Football, or Whatever It's Called These Days?
This may be heresy, but I have to ask it. Why are we (Rice University) still in Division I-A Football?
- It loses millions of dollars for the athletic department, turning a department that would otherwise be operating in the black into the red.
- We lose to I-AA teams. (Unlike Michigan, we weren’t heavily favored to win.)
- Yes, we went to a bowl last year, but that’s something that 53% of all college teams manage to do. And for Rice, it’s a rarity.
Does this sound like a good use of time, effort, and money to anyone else? I sure doesn’t to me. I’d love to see us ditch I-A football and concentrate on those things that we do well.
Like, you know, Baseball.
links for 2007-09-09
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Enough documentation to get started.
10:43 PM
10:51 PM
10 September 2007
Post 2004, or, a MT intervention.
Movable Type, darling, we have to talk.
I tried an experiment two months ago, where I tried to put all my online data into you. Brief updates, links, everything would get dumped into good ol’ Movable Type. You’re a workhorse, and I knew you could handle it.
And you did, but there were some problems.
- All the extra stuff has really slowed you down. It now takes 2-5 minutes to post even a simple blip.
- Your web interface is really not easy to use. Once I tried MarsEdit, I could see that it wasn’t just trying to write from the iPhone - it’s just not easy to write in your web interface.
- Putting everything together has resulted in a lot of clutter. The last two months are huge. And they’re mostly text. I looked up last night and saw pages and pages of links, with very little content.
And that’s just not right. You should be used for what you’re good at, not shoehorned into a whole set of other tasks.
So. I’m sorry I tried to make you do all those other things. Let me let you get back to doing what you’re good at - publishing stories.
I’ll move the other things off to sites and software that are made for them.
Have a good night.
links for 2007-09-10
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Source of the Standard Creepiness Factor for age-appropriate dating.
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Get a magnifying glass. Neat.
11 September 2007
links for 2007-09-11
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I guess I wasn’t the only one frustrated with MT’s iPhone screen.
12 September 2007
89999
YAHzie turned 90k this past Monday.
(I have the actual 90k shot, but it’s very blurry. My carsickness returns just looking at it.)
13 September 2007
links for 2007-09-13
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PhotoRec is all sorts of awesome file recovery.
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GSM forwarding codes.
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One little twiddle. Nice.
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Software, not hardware.
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Guess what I have to replace on YAH?
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On the Dollar Auction and Iraq.
15 September 2007
A Peek Behind The Curtain
Jackson Bohlender asked me for an interview earlier this week about my thoughts on the iPhone, the iPod Touch, and my computing background.
(I admit, it was a little startling to realize that I got my first computer 25 years ago.)
The interview is now up at his site.
16 September 2007
links for 2007-09-16
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“Plus, we can’t, as a citizenry, shut up and cheer.”
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by Isaac Asimov.
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Keeps the important bits off the table. Nice.
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“Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well a
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The first 10 are truly great.
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“Recently, however, network security researchers discovered DLLs (dynamic link libraries) within Windows XP and Vista systems receiving updates despite the Automatic Update application being disabled. “
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I particularly like the YOUR AD HERE brainstorming session.
17 September 2007
links for 2007-09-17
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“ard users will be able to automatically contribute up to 1 percent of their purchases toward emissions offsets. Customers will have the choice to donate all of their rewards or receive half in cash.”
18 September 2007
links for 2007-09-18
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“Chambers filed the suit to make a point that the state constitution allows lawsuits to be filed for any reason.”
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Wonderful infographic. No, really.
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Good overview, and some surprising new uses. (Secure notes? Nice.)
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Good advice.
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“Ever since Boot Camp appeared on the scene, there have been several comments about Macs being better Windows machines than Windows machines. The weird thing is it’s actually true.”
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“A man jogging through a San Antonio, Texas suburb was attacked by an owl. It apparently flew into his head three times and badly scratched him up.”
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Very sad news. He was 58, and his work was unfinished.
19 September 2007
Danger!
I love ISO warning glyphs. There’s nothing like clearly communicating
gruesome death scenarios to enliven one’s day.
The second one is a personal favorite.
links for 2007-09-19
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“This was one football operation beating the other one into the ground.”
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Call today.
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“To restore habeas corpus for those detained by the United States.”
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On taking the keychain with you.
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Excellent overview of the Keychain in OSX.
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“When the water sommelier comes over, I reach for my gun.”
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“allows you to visually monitor your internet connection by displaying a scrolling graph that shows your upload and download speed over time.”
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“The experience of using my Nokia compared to the iPhone is comparable to using PC DOS compared to Mac OS X. The former is painfully functional but never helpful, while the latter is delightful and simple.”
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“Within days, he had the salt water in the test tube burning like a candle, as long as it was exposed to radio frequencies.”
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It’s here!
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“Substitute “Google Gmail” with “Lotus 1-2-3”. The NewSDK will be the second coming of Microsoft Windows; this is exactly how Lotus lost control of the spreadsheet market.”
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Beware clarity that follows confusion.
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CTHULHU FHTAGN CHEEZBURGER
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I just bought a NAS. People have hacked it. Thank you, internet people!
20 September 2007
links for 2007-09-20
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“That 900 pounds is then put back in the vehicle in the form of extra armor where the truck most needs it: in areas that will protect it from roadside bombs.”
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I admit, I picked the wrong one to win this test.
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Automation is a wonderful thing when you’re administering 60+ servers.
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Quite an excellent Mac resource. Nicely done.
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Shell scripting for iPhoto.
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`Montag is one of the latest typefaces from Jeremy Dooley of the Insigne Type Foundry. This is a very modern, fresh-looking, rounded san-serif, that has even been described as “gloopy”.`
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“What does it feel like to be back? It feels great, but it hurts, too.”
21 September 2007
Pimp My Ride
My car YAH is on the shop again. This is a fairly normal state of affairs for my VW Jetta; on my way for routine maintenance she’ll throw a CEL and decide to spend a few days at the ‘spa’.
In this case, she was going in for her 90k mile service and a headlight upgrade. Apparently a breather hose failed, causing a variable-speed fan to stay on max until it burned out, and several other parts of her engine need fixing. I am admittedly hazy on the details.
I just know that the repair bill will have four digits left of the decimal.
With that in mind, I am somewhat less excited about the headlight upgrade that I decided to treat myself and my car to. See, the Mark IV Jettas have headlights that scratch and cloud over, rendering them less bright than one might like. I watch the new cars pass me on I64 and wonder if that many people really drive with their brights on.
There is also this unshakeable guilt that we might have seen that deer coming last year with brighter lights in a wider dispersal pattern.
So when the headlight polishing had worn off, instead of dropping in the same OEM lamps for the GL/GLS model, I opted for the very cool GLX/GLI style, with integrated fog lights for better peripheral vision.
Yes. I pimped my ride, and all I did was add fogs. No smoked glass, no Angel Eye reflectors, no HID/Xenon upgrade kit.
I think I’d rather have an engine that runs instead of 19” wheels, anyway.
22 September 2007
Smart fortwo
Holy cow, a smart car in the wild!
The Bookbinder
“The BOOKBINDER will be open at one o’clock in the afternoon.”
I think I’d like a profession that I could spell in ALL CAPS.
links for 2007-09-22
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Mostly because you can. (Gnome only. What happened to KDE, anyway?)
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“God, dad, am I going to turn stupid when I grow up too?”
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You may not know the “Amen Brother” drum loop by name, but you’ve heard it hundreds or thousands of times.
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Screw the train, let’s walk.
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I have one of these cell phone boosters. Good information about the antenna here.
23 September 2007
September Evening
links for 2007-09-23
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“When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars…, along with a 3x5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for
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“If people are honking, flashing their lights and shaking their fists at you perhaps you should reevaluate some of your driving habits.”
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“Consumers hate their mobile phones because they are just too darn hard to use. At least they were until Apple introduced the iPhone.”
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I may not call it Photowalking, but it’s what I do on Saturday mornings downtown.
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I received this same recommendation — to see the film ONCE — from a friend whose judgement on such matters I trust implicitly. So, you should probably go see it too.
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“One of the dirty little secrets — or rather, dirty huge non-secrets — of Wall Street is that public company accounting has been diverging further and further from cash accounting — which is to say, reality — over time.”
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“All it takes is a visionary who wants to solve, in a single stroke, many of America’s geopolitical and environmental problems.”
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“Those Iranians need to learn from the American example. In this country, if the clear majority of the public opposes the continuation of a war, our leaders will tell us we’re terrorist-humping idiots and do whatever they damn well please. They might even
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Some really great artwork in here.
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Beauty through repetition? Or repetition of beauty? Or just a cartload of iPods?
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The cornering is nice. Leaping over the curb? Priceless.
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“It’s the extra $5 billion that gives this story legs.” As an aside, would it freakin’ kill Wired to add the article title into their <title> tags?
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“It’s the nature of things that a miracle, observed often enough, loses its power to astound. Yet the miraculous core remains. I’m grateful that these fresh sets of eyes were there to remind me of that power.”
27 September 2007
links for 2007-09-27
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Dr. Jay Parkinson M.D. emailed in to tell me about his new medical practice in Williamsburg. He’s got no office (housecalls only), takes appointment requests via SMS, email, or IM, handles some follow-ups over video chat, and specializes in the 18-40 age
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On the transition to Clearview from Highway Gothic. (Have I linked to this before? I sure hope so.)
29 September 2007
Fall Flowers
Unexpected colors on a great fall day.
links for 2007-09-29
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First time itenerary.
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Grand Illumniation time is coming up!
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Great list.
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Unfortunately, no lock codes available. Isn’t that against FCC regs? Oh, it is? Oh…
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This reminds me of several jokes, all at once.
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Good summary of the new update.
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“Those aren’t expensive reproduction whitewalls, those are whitewalls. That 1966 Mustang in St. Louis is nice and shiny not because someone spent $5,000 on a new paint job, but because someone just spent $5,000 on a new Ford.”
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Oh boy. Here come the SHA-1 attacks.
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Setting up SSH proxies on a mac.
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“Let that be a lesson to you: never upgrade.”
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First match is up. Well played, (with Marker Felt, to boot!)
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“Our customer base is growing. Our revenues are growing. Our customer satisfaction is growing. Our product offering is growing. Our integration options are growing. This is the kind of growth we want.”
30 September 2007
Dappled Sunday Morning
Richmond and Boundary
What, autumn already?
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