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Tropical Storm Fail
I’ve lived in Florida long enough to live through enough bad-ass hurricanes to have had enough of bad hurricane reporting on the part of the local news. As soon as the possibility of a threat of...
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The AFA’s Latest Boycott: Hallmark Cards
I love how thinly veiled almost-hate-groups use names that make them sound all warm and fuzzy. Take the anti-gay organization American Family Association for example. Hallmark decided to start making...
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Taking the Debate to… Myspace? Seriously?
A friend of a friend, not pleased with the number of Obama fans on said friend’s Myspace page, decided to post a link to The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Hmm, what do you think...
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Day Seventeen | School
Day Seventeen. I think I’m almost done with school. Not because I’ve gotten all the degrees I wanted, but because I’ve been worn down by all the tedium one has to sit through in order to get just a...
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Day Eighty | April
One of the major changes I’ve made in 2009 so far has been to be somewhat positive. And it came at the right moment, because since 2009 started I’ve lost my job (and have just enough freelance to pay...
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Day Ninety Four | 1999-2009
I’m spent. All I ate all day today was a veggie burger, and I’ve been doing coding work and listening to drum and bass so long that my head is spinning. I just got off the phone with one of my few...
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Day One Hundred Fifty | Pushing Through
I’m almost done with the little project I’m working on. I would have been finished by now if this were a design project, and not a build-out for a website, and that’s one of the reasons why I’m trying...
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Day Two Hundred | Security
I don’t like anything spur of the moment and I don’t like unannounced visitors. I scared off Jehova’s Witnesses such that they’ve never gotten anywhere near my house in ages, and I usually don’t...
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Day Two Hundred Twenty Nine | Lens
I’ll be putting some extra work in this weekend. That means, even after a full week of hard work, I won’t be going out tonight. The best I could manage was driving around aimlessly for a while. That’s...
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Day Two Hundred Thirty Two | Sick(ish)
Something went wrong with my stomach, and I spent the day trying to right it. I’m not sure if it was some kind of food poisoning, or what, but I threw what I had available at it, and by the evening,...
View ArticleDigital On-screen Graphics: Pop-ups for Television
Have you noticed your screen real-estate shrinking? Years ago, networks began placing their network IDs as digital on-screen graphics, nicknamed "bugs", small watermark logos that often appear in the...
View ArticleDude, Where’s My Music?
I wasn't around in the Sixties and Seventies, but I'm pretty sure that mainstream recording artists and their fans weren't too terribly preoccupied with reliving (and rehashing) music from the Fourties...
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3D Desktops: Not a Great Idea
I think the 3D desktop concept is beginning to go too far. I was looking at this video today of the “BumpTop” 3D tablet PC type interface which mimics the way documents are “organized” in a real-world...
View ArticleNo Gas Day, Part II
Seriously, people are still on about this “buy no gas” nonsense? Do so many people have such a fundamental lack of understanding in economics that they actually believe that boycotting the two largest...
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Wii: No Gamers Allowed
I have a confession: I’ve never beaten a Wii game. Despite lining up at midnight and purchasing the Wii on launch night, I have never played through to the end of a single of my Wii games. I blame...
View ArticleThanks for Nothing, Badly Worded Dialog Box
Here is a dialog box I’m often greeted with in Adobe Dreamweaver while working with XHTML/CSS files that have linked graphics: [name of file] has changed on the remote server since your last get or put...
View ArticleGoogle Android: Suck it, iPhone
I was just reading about the latest demo of Google’s Android mobile operating system. The Android Community site got an exclusive live preview of the latest version, and posted plenty of pictures and...
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There’s Apple in my PC
My first inclination upon seeing a process whose description is ##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762## in my list of currently running processes is to think it’s some kind of virus,...
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Glasses.com
I bought a cheap pair of glasses when my last pair broke because I needed new glasses ASAP, but I wanted to look for a pair that really suited me. See, when you’re buying eyeglasses because you...
View ArticleEver Read The Fine Print?
I used to be a cash-only type. It was only after being nagged by my parents and others on the importance of building one’s credit that I finally gave in and submitted myself to the slavery of...
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