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  1. Wishlist time! November 30, 2005

    Seeing how it’s less than a month before Christmas and we’ve run full-bore into the shopping season, I figured I’d put up my wishlist. Of course, the one thing standing in the way is that for the most part, I really don’t have a wishlist…at least, not a serious one.

    Posted in Life.

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  2. Tweaking the ads November 30, 2005

    I’ve done a bit of tweaking on the ads served up on the pages of my site. While I certainly have no intentions of becoming an adfarm, I finally decided that I didn’t mind at least slightly increasing the possibilities of having a few pennies slide my way from time to time.

    Posted in Website.

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  3. Quarrantine November 29, 2005

    Urgh. I have The Ick.

    Posted in Life.

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  4. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire November 27, 2005

    Prairie and I just got back from (finally) seeing the latest Harry Potter movie. In brief, I think this is my favorite of the series so far.

    Posted in Film.

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  5. Post-Thanksgiving Wrapup November 27, 2005

    Heh…I guess after three days, I should really move my ‘happy Thanksgiving’ post down the page a touch, eh?

    Posted in Life.

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  6. Happy Thanksgiving! November 24, 2005

    Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

    Posted in Life.

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  7. Lost s02e08: Collision November 23, 2005

    Scribbled notes while watching tonight’s episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to…

    Posted in Television.

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  8. Buying a camera? November 23, 2005

    Oh, by the way…on the off chance that any of my Seattle-area readers are considering or planning on buying a camera this holiday season, I’d love you forever if you came by the Kit’s Cameras store in the Northgate Mall while I’m working.

    Posted in Life.

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  9. Top 20 Geek Novels November 23, 2005

    The Guardian UK ran a survey voting for the top 20 geek novels written since 1932, and in ‘net meme tradition, here’s the list with those I’ve read in bold. 13 out of 20…65%. Not bad, but I could do better. Time to add to the ever-growing reading list!

    Posted in Books.

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  10. Bush targets Al-Jazeera for bombing November 23, 2005

    President Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a ‘Top Secret’ No 10 memo reveals.

    Posted in Politics.

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  11. Feeds are tagged too November 22, 2005

    It’s a good thing I subscribe to my own RSS feeds — the ‘full content’ feed and the ‘full content with comments’ feed have both been updated to include the new tag support. Sorry about the mass-refresh in your RSS readers if you get hit with it.

    Posted in Website.

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  12. Cookies like Novocaine November 22, 2005

    The only Martha Stewart you’ll ever need to watch is the one where her guest star…is Cookie Monster.

    Posted in Humor.

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  13. Folksonomy tag support added November 21, 2005

    One of the things I’ve wanted to add to my site for quite a while now has finally been added: tagging, along the lines of del.icio.us or Flickr. Admittedly, I still have a ways to go in getting all my old entries correctly tagged, but that will come with time. For now, they’re showing up in a few places.

    Posted in MovableType, Website.

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  14. Tacoma Mall shooting report roundup November 20, 2005

    Thankfully, this didn’t happen at the mall I work at.

    Posted in Links.

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  15. Frack! November 18, 2005

    Hehe — Prairie and I just finished watching Season One of Battlestar Galactica. I’d seen it before, ‘twas the first time for her. She’s hooked.

    Posted in Life, Television.

    2 comments
  16. Sony’s rootkit November 18, 2005

    In one of the (many) stories that have been flying by my radar without being remarked on over the past few weeks, it recently came to light that Sony has been using some incredibly nasty “copy protection” schemes on many of its audio CDs. Wired News has an excellent rundown of the situation that’s worth reading. This is how the major corporations are treating their customers these days. It’s not a pretty thing.

    Posted in Links.

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  17. Could I be a US Citizen? November 18, 2005

    Oh. Oops. Okay, so it’s been a long time since high school, but still…I need to do some studying!

    Posted in Links.

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  18. Top Artists according to last.fm November 18, 2005

    From Adriaan: last.fm has nice charting tools, mapping out your listening trends. From data collected over the past year, this list appears to show my top artists.

    Posted in Music.

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  19. Lost s02e07: The Other 48 Days November 16, 2005

    Scribbled notes while watching tonight’s episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to…

    Posted in Television.

    3 comments
  20. Make it stop! November 13, 2005

    The downstairs neighbor — on the other side of the building — has had “All I Want For Christmas is You” from the Love Actually soundtrack playing on repeat… For. Six. Hours.

    Posted in Life.

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  21. Reconnecting November 11, 2005

    Touched off by a couple of random Google searches, over the past couple of weeks, a post of mine has become an impromptu meeting point and simple message board for quite a few of the Anchorage scenesters of the ‘80’s.

    Posted in Internet, Life.

    1 comment
  22. Lost s02e06: Abandoned November 9, 2005

    Scribbled notes while watching tonight’s episode of Lost. Spoilers, obviously, so only read further if you want to…

    Posted in Television.

    1 comment
  23. Lots of Pictures November 9, 2005

    I’ve spent much of the afternoon and evening continuing to work on scanning in old photos that I’ve had lying jumbled up in various boxes. Quite a few have been scanned in and uploaded to my Flickr account.

    Posted in Life, Photography.

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  24. Who’s going to die tonight? November 9, 2005

    A few weeks ago, after the promo for tonight’s episode of Lost promised that, ‘one of these survivors will be lost forever,’ I put a poll up (both here and on my LiveJournal) to see who people thought was going to be the unlucky party. Here’s the results…

    Posted in Television.

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  25. Wikipedia as Political Commentary November 8, 2005

    It’s not that this kind of thing doesn’t happen often, it’s just the first time that I’ve seen it before it got fixed. Currently, a Wikipedia search for Scott McClellan returns this…

    Posted in Humor, Politics.

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