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BOOK: I Don’t Know How She Does it I stayed up late last night polishing off the final pages of Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It. I didn’t read Bridget Jones’ Diary, but I wonder if it was similar. Very real, very up-to-date, but still fictional… this book felt very timely to [...]

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One more way to fight the spammers Since the California law that goes into effect on January 1, 2004 won’t slow down the international spammers, I was glad to find another low-tech way to slow the harvesting of email addresses. Vin Crosbie pointed out this handy tip for encoding an email address in a way [...]

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No buyer’s remorse here Ever since the announcement of the new G4 iBooks, I’ve been curious about whether the new 12″ iBook was comparable to the 12″ PowerBook I purchased in July. Seems I’m not alone, and a few other have actually written down their thoughts. Here’s a grid which basically concludes that it’s almost [...]

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I’m here… it just feels like I’m missing Spent the weekend at Ed’s bachelor party in South Lake Tahoe, got a stack of bills to pay and accounting to do for some family stuff, and the girl must have a tooth coming in because she’s cranky as all hell. And I cannot get the &*%&^% [...]

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Imitation = flattery I spent much of today writing down requirements, in preparation for a kickoff meeting at work tomorrow afternoon. We’re going to re-introduce a feature from the past, but this time we’re going to do it ourselves, rather than outsourcing the service. Despite problems with the outsourcer which led to our discontinuing the [...]

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How old are you? I woke my son up this morning, and… well, OK, he woke me up this morning, per usual. After a few pleasantries, I told him it was October 21st. And then I asked him how old he was. He started: “I’m…(hesitation)…THREE!” Yes, today was the third birthday. Pretty easy to forget [...]

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Joining the Tivolution I hope TiVo lives up to the hype. Ours arrived today, and after some struggling with the various inputs (no, the VCR isn’t hooked up yet, but I think the DVD still is), I saw the Welcome screen and the rest was easy enough. I appreciated the coincidence (?) of the New [...]

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BBC’s Big Read Everyone loves lists sometimes. The BBC polled the UK in April to find out the country’s favorite 100 books. Now it’s down to a list of the top 21. Apparently, they are going to winnow them down further still. I’ve heard of almost all 21, but two didn’t ring a bell: Birdsong [...]

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RSS tracking… same as web tracking Brian Peddie wants to track RSS usage the same way many websites track site usage or email opens: clear GIFs/web bugs. It works, but it’s dependent on the newsreader… much as tracking email opens is dependent on using an email client which respects HTML (and having subscribers willing to [...]

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BOOK: The Thirteen Gun Salute Last weekend, while down in Los Angeles for the Women’s World Cup, I finished the last few pages of The Thirteen Gun Salute, book number 13 (coincidence?) in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series. Most of the book is spent in Malaysia, ferrying a diplomatic mission to Pulo Prabang. All through the [...]

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