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Search improvements February 28, 2003
While MovableType does include its own search function, I’ve chosen not to use it for djwudi.com because I have a number of pages that live outside of my weblog, which MT would not be able to search. However, I’d run into a bit of a problem with the search engine I am using, and I think I’ve finally got it solved.
Posted in Website.
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Dive! Dive! Dive! February 27, 2003
NASA has had its day. It’s given us technological marvels from cell phones to SETI screensavers. But we’re not mining the moon. We’re not terraforming Mars. And we’re certainly not finding any aliens.
Posted in Science.
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By the infinite dick of God February 27, 2003
I first found this on the ‘net ages ago, and used to have a copy somewhere on my hard drive. I’d forgotten about it for a long time, then the phrase “by the infinite dick of God” popped into my head tonight, and I decided to search this out and…
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We’ll bomb who we want! February 27, 2003
The Propaganda Remix Project has a book of posters being released in March, complete with forward by Kurt Vonnegut, introduction by Howard Zinn, and commentary by the Center for Constitutional Rights. Looks worth picking up — my copy is on order.
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New WTC plan chosen February 26, 2003
Well, it looks like the winning plan for the replacement complex for the WTC has been revealed. While it’s not the one I favored, maybe it’ll translate better into the real world than the pictures of it I’ve seen so far.
Posted in Links.
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This isn’t helping February 26, 2003
A few days ago, Robert Scoble asked what we think Microsoft should do in the future, both with technology and to improve their public persona. I haven’t done much for coming up with a list of what they should do, but here’s a hint to Micosoft: this is something you really shouldn’t do.
Posted in Internet.
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Caring for your Introvert February 26, 2003
The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves. We can only dream that someday…it will not be impolite to say “I’m an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush.”
Posted in Life.
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Catching up, part four: political bits February 25, 2003
Yeah, well, I had to jump back into this side of things eventually. On the bright side, much as this stuff might worry and/or scare me, at least I’m paying attention to it now, which I wasn’t for far too many years.
Posted in Politics.
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Catching up, part three February 25, 2003
Again, in no particular order, bits and pieces from my ‘technology’ grouping in NetNewsWire…
Posted in Links.
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Catching up, part two February 24, 2003
This time, the focus is on Macintosh goodies. All you PC-using heathens can read on in wistful fantasyland, or just find something else to do — like reinstall Windows again.
Posted in Technology.
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Playing catchup February 24, 2003
I’m skimming over a lot of stuff in my newsreader (758 new items after being out of touch for a week!), but in no particular order, here’s some of the stuff that caught my eye…
Posted in Links.
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Need some free shoes? February 24, 2003
Enough soggy Nike basketball shoes to outfit every high school team in the state are drifting through the Pacific Ocean toward Alaska after spilling from a container ship off Northern California.
Posted in Humor.
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He’s got a point February 24, 2003
If anyone in [My Fair Lady] was gay, it had to be Higgins and Pickering — you’re telling me two single men in their late fifties who live together and enjoy speaking properly and dressing Audrey Hepburn in fabulous outfits aren’t?
Posted in Quotes.
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Back online February 24, 2003
We’re back! Sorry about the downtime. In the end, I have to admit that it all boils down to one simple thing — money matters aren’t my strong point.
Posted in Website.
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Movie Quiz February 18, 2003
A movie quiz from Dave Hyatt. I didn’t want to open up his comments to make my stab at the answers, since I’d probably see other people’s answers, so I’m doing it via Trackback. I’ll start with the quiz, and put my answers in the rest of this post. You can use the comments if you want to play along, too!
Posted in Film.
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Flirt vodka February 18, 2003
Something tells me that this isn’t an ad we’d see here in America. Not sure why? It’s kind of subtle. Look at his legs. Sure makes me wish I knew Russian, just so I knew what the ad copy was.
Posted in Humor.
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Apple bloggers? February 18, 2003
There’s been much discussion recently regarding Microsoft bloggers. Got me thinking — what about ‘Apple bloggers’? The only one I know of off the top of my head is Dave Hyatt, who works on the rendering engine for Safari. Any others out there I should know about?
Posted in Weblogs.
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Scoblemania February 18, 2003
Yikes. After going through my ‘Technology’ grouping in NetNewsWire, which includes RSS feeds for 34 different weblogs and news sites, every link that I called up as ‘probably worth babbling about’ was from Robert Scoble.
Posted in Links.
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Riot in Anchorage February 17, 2003
A Fur Rondy teen dance erupted late Saturday into what officials are calling a riot of 300 youths spitting, kicking and throwing rocks and bottles at police in downtown Anchorage. Nearly every on-duty Anchorage police officer, about 70 in all, converged around the Egan Center. What happened remained muddled Sunday. Police and the Egan Center manager gave different versions of how the situation got out of control.
Posted in Links.
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No jive talkin’ February 17, 2003
Unfortunately, at this point, the plugin mangles URL’s (see the comments to the previous post) so I can’t use it to post and link anywhere. With any luck that will be corrected at some later point, though…
Posted in MovableType.
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Jive talkin’ February 17, 2003
This is a test, and this is only a test. Hopefully it will at least be an amusing test — I’m playing with the MovableJive text formatting plugin for MovableType 2.6. I probably won’t use this very often, but it could be fun from time to time. Included filters are Jive, Texas Drawl, Cockney, Swedish Chef, Valley Girl, German Accent, and Hunting Wabbits.
Posted in MovableType.
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Seems simple to me February 14, 2003
Here I am, working at the single biggest software company in the world, packed to the brim with some of the brightest people in the tech industry — and yet they need signs posted outlining a four-step process to get a free soda out of the vending machines.
Posted in Humor.
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Upgrades galore February 14, 2003
Two important (in my world) software upgrades hit the ‘net today: Mac OS X was upgraded to version 10.2.4, and MovableType was upgraded to version 2.6. Both are installed, and both are working like a charm.
Posted in MovableType.
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Weather wierdness February 13, 2003
It looks like Dave Winer and John Teggatz have all the cold weather that Dad is complaining he’s missing in Anchorage. And on an entirely unrelated note: I really wish that Dave’s RSS feed had individual posts linked to their permalinks.
Posted in Life.
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Your e-mail is safe from scrutiny February 13, 2003
More good news as I catch up on my newsreading — the Total Information Awareness program is facing heavy opposition, and is likely to be barred from collecting information on American citizens.
Posted in Politics.
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