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lots of good stuff here
links for 2007-01-18
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Have never read Illuminatus, etc., but his books managed to have a sideways influence on my life anyhow. (K, I’m looking at you.) Tangentially, the “Peter” in his post was a tutor/instructor at Pierce who died tragically a couple of years ago. One of m
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read through this later, and consider what I’d want myself.
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might come in handy on something I’m thinking through
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lots of future research
links for 2007-01-17
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“using CSS to style form controls to look exactly the same across browsers and platforms is impossible” — with screenshots!
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“I’ll use the
- element to mark up an unordered list, because that’s what it’s for” — a personal integrity approach to web design.
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on usability & accessibility.
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very concise explanation of a conceptually challenging topic.
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whoa. holding myself back from ordering a copy right. this. minute. 😉(tags: javascripty to-buy)
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sounds really nice.
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pretty basic stuff, but a good reminder. now that I’m back in cube-land, I live by my headphones.(tags: arts productivity)
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I’m using GTDTiddlyWiki at work with great success, but then, I suppose it helps that I started from essentially a blank slate. Getting something that works at home is turning out to be exponentially more complicated.(tags: productivity)
weather report: wtf?
More snow last night & this morning, which means that there’s been at least a little snow on the ground for a week now. I can’t remember the last time that happened. The Ice Storm of ’96, maybe? So, like, 10 years ago.
I’m still finding it entertaining, at least. Just weird.
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links for 2007-01-16
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fascinating.
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I want one.
sunday scribblings: idea
This is neither poetry nor fiction, but since that was this week’s prompt, I thought I’d take a break to write out what I’m trying to do right now.
I’m working on a bit of itch-scratch-ware, writing a little program to help us grocery shop better. There’s a basic list of recipes that we switch among from week to week, so I’ve got one table with the recipes, another with their ingredients, and a third joining them together. Very very simple.
The idea being that one of us (or the two of us sitting together) can plan what we’re going to eat for dinner all week, then get a list of all the appropriate ingredients. Then subtract what’s already in the house, and email and/or print the results for shopping when whomever has time.
It’s nothing fancy, and it’s likely to be exceedingly plain, but it could make my life a little easier, plus give me a real reason to do some dinking around. (I might play with a framework, and maybe some shiny ajax stuff.)
So that’s tonight’s idea.
links for 2007-01-15
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“community colleges must, in a sense, be everything to everyone” — very consise description of the problems of community colleges. a very stressful situation.(tags: academia)
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“It’s hard to think about walking away from an incredible stroke of luck without feeling like some sort of cosmic ingrate. But it’s time.” This was a big part of my intense ambivalence about changing jobs, but I’m glad I did.
links for 2007-01-14
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cool-looking, like golf course grass for the roof.
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mmmmm…pho…. Includes recipes!
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“I’m happy to have realized my dream that noodles can go into space.â€
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(tags: writing)
string theory
Something C said today, while playing with Pico, as an idea for a title of something about cats. I think it would make a great title for a poem, but I can’t seem to get started on the poem that would go with it.
So I’m just going to toss this out into the universe. Have fun. 😉
I may come back to the idea later, though.
links for 2007-01-13
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something to try out?
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additional take on the whole Outlook ’07 madness.
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“What would happen if we spent […] 10% of our workweek on touring. In a 40-hour week, we’d spend 4 hours a week exploring the designs of other sites.” What a clever idea! I think I’m going to build that into my weekly schedule.
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I always enjoyed his movie reviews, even if they were occasionally painful to read.
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“living as though success were infinite, behaving with generosity and consideration, leads to more security and long-term prominence than the reverse” — wonderful!