Archive for July 2006
links for 2006-08-01
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clever diagramming (in Flash, includes plot spoilers)(tags: arts)
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for taking quick notes on pocketpc devices(tags: mda)
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“Open space is fun but not productive.” This is why I prefer my office (such as it is) to the semi-open area in the back of our department.(tags: productivity)
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why the hell not?
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“We must restore antitrust law to its central role in protecting the economic rights, properties, and liberties of the American citizen, and first of all use that power to break Wal-Mart into pieces.” A long treatise on monopsony, wrapping up with a big i
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(tags: photography to-watch)
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My life is not sad or empty, decayed or cynical, flat or leaden, detached or cold or dead […] merely because I decline to base my life on a belief in mystical energy.(tags: religion)
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(tags: food)
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Search the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
poetry thursday: food
This was actually from last week, but I’m tempted by the idea, so I’m tucking it away here to come back to soon.
links for 2006-07-29
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for a work project.(tags: mac to-install)
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“Interested in a FREE URL Rewriter for IIS? Do you wish IIS had a mod_rewrite? Check out IIRF.”
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I like the checklist idea (a book of 101 checklists)
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one of the 101 lists.
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Very similar to what I/we do…at work, we go one step farther even, with a set of PHP templates to handle headers & footers. also, this is how I’m training my interns.
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nice set of starting points.
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. one-click, you say? I might well give it a whirl.
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with my horrifying luck, I should probably start doing this.
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for one of my side projects
links for 2006-07-28
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I will most certainly need this again….(tags: home)
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quirky. (lots of DIY tips in the comments.) which reminds me, I need to stake our (vast quantities of) tomatoes this weekend….
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yeah, exactly. it’s crazy-powerful, but still very awkward in some ways.(tags: drupal philosophizing)
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“The more of these “wrong kinds of people” you have involved in the process, the worse things get.” the graphs are hysterical.
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I like this ’cause it’s local. install on home computer, too!(tags: productivity it@home)
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“He doesn’t trust you to do your job because he doesn’t actually know what your secret title is.” OMG. Lightbulb moment. (Not about *my* boss, really, so much as some other things.)
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hopefully this will work for a project I’m working on right this second.(tags: drupal)
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Wireless Universal Resource File — I think this was mentioned in the session I went to last week.(tags: browsers)
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“if good interface design and front-end code is important, ASP.Net is the devil” heh. I overheard a bit of a conversation between Garrett & somebody else last week on that very topic. the main reason, btw, that I dread the idea of learning .Net.
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“MonoRail differs from the standard WebForms way of development as it enforces separation of concerns” — for .Net.
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“zeldman.com now accepts comments” — I don’t know quite why, but it makes me sad. or maybe just nostalgic for circa 2000, when I first discovered the mighty Z.(tags: blogosphere)
little tiny lightbulb
in which the author does the happy-dance: now AJAX-enabled!
links for 2006-07-27
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policies that actually MEAN something.
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ah, things to think about…and then do!
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“companies have for years based decisions on satisfaction surveys that have a poor response rate, largely because they’re too long”
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“I want what I do with my data to be limited only by my imagination and not the API’s, Terms of Service, functionality and server uptime of some random company.” I hear that! I still have continous misgivings about flickr, much as I love it, and I fee
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In summation: “Word is Still King” and people don’t know how to use it!(tags: web_dev accessibility)
