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The coolest software I’ve found lately
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Wednesday, Jun 27 2007
There are some programs that just do something really handy in a simple way that makes your life easier. Library Books is one of them. “Library Books is an Mac OS X application that tracks the library books you have borrowed.” Yes, this is true, but that just makes it sound like a database. Not…
Blurry laptop sleeve progress
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Friday, Mar 9 2007
Sorry for the blur. This is the felted laptop sleeve for my Macbook, currently drying. It felted down to the right size, so my math worked! I think it could probably felt slightly more, because I can still see the vertical “grain” where the stitches were, but I can live with this. The top is…
From Altair to Google: Microsoft’s evolution, in keywords
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Tuesday, Jan 2 2007
“April 1975: altair computer January 1984: graphical interface macintosh May 1991: patents windows 1993: computing highway 1997: computer differently macintosh August 1998: linux oss November 2002: judgment middleware plaintiffs windows October 2006: google advertising hardware competition” Tood Bishop at the Seattle P-I collected speeches, interviews, e-mails, and other items from Microsoft’s history, then processed them…
Subliminal message
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Thursday, Sep 7 2006
I was amused today when I saw this icon for an iFlash card deck on my Mac. Look verrrrrry closely at the tiny words on the card. It starts out as the lyrics to “We Are The World,” but there’s an additional political statement in there. 😉
I must have this sweater!
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Thursday, Aug 25 2005
It’s a Sad Mac. But a Happy Mac would be nice, too. It’s crocheted, but I bet I could figure out a knitted one. I might just do that!
Seen any pop-unders lately?
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Tuesday, Feb 22 2005
In the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed that a couple of pop-under ads appeared in my browser, which was strange, since I’ve had pop-ups disabled since, well, forever. It turns out some evil bastard advertisers have found a way around pop-up blocking. Ugh. This is not good.
What I’m listening to
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Monday, Mar 1 2004
Kung-Tunes is an OS X program that makes it possible to generate a list of your most-recently-heard iTunes tracks, and post them automatically on a web page. So, with some script help from Tim’s Bandwagon, I’ve got the thing up and running on this very page. Look in the menu bar (scroll down) to see…
CSS irritation
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Wednesday, Feb 11 2004
I would love it if someone could tell me why, when viewing this site through the Lemony Yellow theme, certain headlines look different from the rest. The Julius Schwartz headline and the Cola Through the Ages headline both aren’t showing the H3 style. But when I look at the code they look the same as…
Scum of the earth
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Thursday, Feb 5 2004
Spammers, that is. Scum, all of them. Today this blog got its first comment spam, selling a medication that I have no wish to advertise on these pages. The spam was deleted pretty near instantly, so the spammer was wasting his time. (Spammers are not only scum, they are idiots.) If you are also running…
Play it while you still can
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Saturday, Jan 31 2004
Someone has made an online Scrabble game using XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. It’s impressive work. Enjoy it now before Hasbro shuts it down!
Doomed iBook
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Thursday, Jan 29 2004
So, Apple has finally done the right thing and created a program to cover the replacement of the defective logic boards in certain iBooks. Which is good, and they should have done it a long time ago. However, I see from reading this announcement that I am doomed. My iBook’s serial number is included in…
WordPress 1.0.1RC up and running
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Sunday, Jan 18 2004
Well, the upgrade is running. The basic upgrade to a functional 1.0.1 (from 0.72) was easy. The killer was that they decided to change names of a bunch of files and functions, from b2* to wp*. This, of course, broke the customizations I had done. Even the style sheets I had made broke, though they…
WordPress update
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Saturday, Jan 17 2004
While I was out of town a new version of WordPress came out. I haven’t had time to think about upgrading, but I think I might try to upgrade tonight. So there might be some weirdness. I expect the templates might break temporarily. If things aren’t working, check back later.
Amazon changes wish list URL format
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Saturday, Dec 6 2003
Good timing, Amazon. During this holiday shopping season, they changed the format of their wish list URLs — thus breaking links on pages all over the web, including mine. At least I found out (via the eclecticism blog) and got it fixed. (It’s in the menu bar, hint hint).
Importing Blogger posts to WordPress
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Saturday, Dec 6 2003
Well, I finally took the plunge and imported 3 years’ worth of old Blogger posts into WordPress. And guess what? It was easy! Seems to have worked fine. If you’re running WordPress and you’re not sure how to do it, just look in your wp-admin folder, and you’ll see a php script (import-blogger.php) for importing…
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