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Entries from December 2003

Growing up in San Francisco

December 23rd, 2003 · Comments Off

Growing up in San Francisco So I’m watching the kids, and the boy decides to pull out the truck basket and dump it on the floor. He then proceeds to retrieve the footrest from under the desk, and begins to assemble the following (click thumbnail for full size image) without any prodding. I think San [...]

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What a weekend

December 21st, 2003 · Comments Off

What a weekend Welcome Natalie (yesterday), hello blackout (yesterday and this morning), miserable AV equipment (all day today), reasonable 5K time (Golden Gate Park this morning), and an ever-growing excitement in the boy about the coming of Christmas. Got to head to bed, since he’ll be up before 6am as always tomorrow.

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Link parking

December 20th, 2003 · Comments Off

Link parking Clearing out a few from the Safari bookmarks bar… Bray on time Interview with Feedster’s Scott Johnson David Galbraith on ontology (and why they help) WiFi usage at Carnegie Mellon [via WiFiNetNews] Contradictory comments on Simson Garfinkel’s article The Myth of Doomed Data from the MIT Tech Review. Managing time from HBS Working [...]

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Haven’t had an opportunity yet…

December 20th, 2003 · Comments Off

Haven’t had an opportunity yet to try SubEthaEdit Very few Macs at work, and little need to try the collaborative writing/editing process at home, but I’m curious about SubEthaEdit (formerly known as Hydra). I’ve installed it, but haven’t used it with someone. Someone documented what happened with an open shared blank document. Sounds like the [...]

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Presentation tips from Doc Searls

December 19th, 2003 · Comments Off

Presentation tips from Doc Searls Just adding a link as a more permanent bookmark.

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Online conference for RSS

December 19th, 2003 · Comments Off

Online conference for RSS I’ll have to try and “attend” the RSS WinterFest on January 21, 2004. I know a few folks on the agenda, and have read many of the rest.

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Fountain pens

December 19th, 2003 · No Comments

I have a very nice Waterman fountain pen that I received from my godfather as a wedding present. I use it frequently at work (analog, meet digital… digital, meet analog). However, I’ve ruined at least three shirts by putting the pen in my pocket without the cap on. Since I’m not likely to wear a [...]

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I want a favicon!

December 18th, 2003 · Comments Off

I want a favicon! Those tiny graphics that appear in most modern browsers next to your URLs are called favicons. Here’s one starting point among dozens of possibilities for learning how to create one. I am so graphically challenged that I’ll have to get some help, but how hard can it be to do a [...]

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Against my better instincts

December 18th, 2003 · Comments Off

Against my better instincts I often wait a couple of weeks when Software Update pops up with something new from Apple, to see if any bad news filters out over the first few days. But with MacOS 10.3.2, I didn’t wait on my 12″ PowerBook G4. Reports are coming in that this was a bad [...]

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CSS for the future

December 18th, 2003 · Comments Off

CSS for the future I don’t know much about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), but I know enough to support them strongly, both at work (where it matters) and here (where I just grabbed a default theme, but made sure it employed CSS). Maybe after I get through all the lessons (great stuff, with solid, interactive [...]

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