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for our living room, something between 34 and 40 inches would be about right. good to know.
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I can always use more regexp resources. (Dorothea’s tutorial — is it still out there? — has been the most helpful thing so far.)
links for 2007-09-29
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“try to go online and she’ll melt your pc” — right ON.
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Ah, Farrells. (Are they still around?) I think I had every single birthday dinner there up maybe all the way into high school, also the one and only surprise party that I’ve had. (16!)
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I have a bunch of somebody else’s tomatoes at home.
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“The result […] has been telecom’s Bay of Pigs—a project the government wanted to happen but left to underqualified private parties to deliver.” heh. perfect description. They note St. Cloud FL as a success story, too.
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nice roundup.(tags: productivity)
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“begin in an area in which your company is already effectively engaging community”
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I’ve thought a few times about doing that with work (blue to white, BTW) but never quite been bold enough or clever enough to pull it off.
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I finally got around to doing this on a project — a bit of work to wrap my brain around it, but OMG I can’t believe I haven’t done this earlier!(tags: productivity web_dev)
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pretty much the same as what ails poetry: obscurity and insularity.
links for 2007-09-28
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this totally rawks. do this tomorrow!
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“It is simply incorrect to capitalize nouns (or any other words) just because You Consider Them Important” — thank you. yes. absolutely. what he said.
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My brain can’t quite process this today.
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ditto.
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this looks like fun, not that i have time for it.
links for 2007-09-27
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this will come in handy later.
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“it’s the people who aren’t young men who usually want privacy” — THIS is why it’s important to have diversity in web dev, IT, whatever. he goes on to complain about it being a PITA to program, but whatever.
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I really like Jed’s appreciation, particularly the reminder of one of my favorite late L’Engle books. (I loved that 2nd poem when I was a teenager.)
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It’s the “johnny-jump-up”, but fuzzy! (that’s the name we had for Greyson’s big heated mat that he brought back from S. Korea; it’s the closest we could get to the actual name.)
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duuuuuude. I so need this.
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how depressing.(tags: wifi)
links for 2007-09-26
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a tech book, but some useful tidbits, plus an interesting idea from Ian Lloyd in the comments.
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“get one give one” — $400 starting Nov 12. so very tempted.
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something I’ve wanted to figure out for a long time.(tags: photoshoppery)
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no particular need now, but still.(tags: php)
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ugh. security questions can be a PITA. I’d rant, but it’d be about work. 🙂
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Burt’s Bees lip shimmer is the only makeup I wear regularly; I swear by their lip balm and honey lotion. And yes, I can find them at Fred Meyer.
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“having critical-thinking skills is way more important than whether you […] write your own compiler” or like I always told mom, at least I know how to write a good English sentence. it’s a skill that comes in shockingly handy.
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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.” via Molly H. worth remembering.
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The accompanying graph reminds me of this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/epersonae/241008948/ but with a hook at the end.
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so very silly.(tags: creditunion funny)
so your volunteer webmaster skipped town
I want to use this as a title for a section of a presentation I’m giving next month. I also want to write it as an article, maybe for some sort of nonprofit orgs publication.
(I have filled in for — and been — that person.)
links for 2007-09-25
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including “don’t underestimate integration” aka the stealth project! (also, ignore the comments. a lot of bloviating.)
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hey, maybe mom could make one! 😉
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Like Ralph sez: “Best. Talk Like a Pirate. Post. Ever.”
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I hate to say it, but one of the things that worked really well about sharing an office with Don is that I liked listening to music…and he was hard of hearing. 😉(tags: personal)
links for 2007-09-22
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I do really like steak….
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hmmmmm. can I get this working for Timberland Regional?
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::sigh:: not that I’m planning on switching NOW, but the information comes in handy more often than I’d like.(tags: web_dev)
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yeah. definitely. (UPS Class of ’96.)
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no comment.(tags: blogosphere work)
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OMG I so totally want one.
first haiku of fall
brown maple leaves
caught by the net
of green conifer boughs
links for 2007-09-21
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omg. so very odd.
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“creating a bizarre orphaned node stuck sucking up memory until the browser window is refreshed” – mmmm, zombie elements…where braaaaiiiiins == meeeemmmmmorrrrrrryyyyyy.(tags: weird javascripty)
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alas, we are going to be going to a friend’s house for a day of gaming, and it’s nearly impossible to get there, on a Saturday, w/out a car!
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“According to Wikipedia, there’s enough Lego currently in the world to provide every man, woman and child with 62 pieces.” they recycle internally, but don’t use recycle plastic generally. 🙁
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OMG, electric car dealership in Portland…including used cars. This may be the place where we replace the Kia.
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a whiz-bang navigation, without Flash or JS. just animated gifs (!) and CSS.
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I’m sure this is a great video, but I can’t see it. (Rassafrassing Barracuda….)
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very timely!(tags: usability psychology)
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“A poster made for an imaginary aviation show in Iceland” – beautiful vintagesque goodness.(tags: design inspiration)
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freakishly, this makes me feel very nostalgic for sometime around late 2001.
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an important component of therapy, for me, has been realizing that it’s just not possible to do everything, and to do anything, you have to choose.
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it does cover most of the basics of web programming!(tags: web_dev)
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“I remember being upbraided for having it [smartphone] poke out of the top of my velvet jacket in one of the courtroom scenes [of the movie Wilde]” — best. technology review. ever. seriously. also, a mac-windows mobile sync program!