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housing in that area must be horrifically expensive. I tried to use my current public transit travel time (40 minutes) and the current value of my house (wild-ass-guess/currency conversion 70K pounds) — it’s not physically possible. had to go to 90 mins
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Yes yes yes yes. Don’t tell anybody, but I’m working on a redesign. 🙂(tags: web_dev)
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“His mission was to photograph each of the nation’s 50 state capitol buildings and dispatch a postcard from each city, using postage stamps from a childhood collection.” – a beautiful idea, almost ruined by “the war on the unexpected” (bruce schnier’s p
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a good reminder.(tags: css)
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interesting idea to buy gift cards from the place where doing testing to give to subjects.(tags: usability)
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as usual, Jessamyn has good stuff to say about the junction of technology and libraries. (sometimes I think I want to be Jessamyn when I grow up.)
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damn good questions.(tags: marketing email-newsletter)
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I think some of the techniques here are things I’ve worked on with my therapist.(tags: depression reference)
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“There’s only one space left in the market where IE can still claim that bloated 95%+ market share: corporate intranets.” — Some excellent business analysis. (I’m reading the rest of my IE8 meta-switch backlog.)
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Too many comments here to pick one, or to quote from any of JZ’s text. Frankly, I find the whole thing incredibly dispiriting; deeply disheartening. Like something’s gone horribly awry. Maybe Dylan’s civil war comment (twitter? can’t remember) is exactly
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“The real question here is: Why do you have so many stuffed Lemurs??” – okay, that was what I needed. I get way too emo about this stuff.
links for 2008-01-25
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ooooh. I ::heart:: magnetic whiteboards. (I have 2 at work.)
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“So Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob.” – heh.
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hm. I fear that this may be far too true in our house.
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for in a doorway
links for 2008-01-24
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“So, bottom line, we’d like to see fewer modes, not more.” – a very thoughtful take from someone who’s had to implement multiple browser modes.
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“Software is 100% detail. Quality is 100% attention to detail. And the detail called X-UA-Compatible should be replaced with something better.” — I’m finding the notes from other browser makers particularly interesting. As designers we have one sort of p
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“I feel like I’ve walked into an episode of the Twilight Zone.” — that’s about it. I don’t understand!!!!!!
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In the comments: “I have no doubt that later versions of ASP.Net will automagically include the necessary meta tag; this will make the perception that the MS platform works better than anything else.” THIS is the thing to fear.
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what a rad idea! I want one, esp. with the owl.
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whoa. I actually got to an empty gmail box. of course, I also figured out that I have a metric ton of stuff to do for the ENA, but that’s to be expected.
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really need to do this.
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good stretch here.
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oh, I would love to turn my pretty little Ranger into an EV.
links for 2008-01-23
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“My personal work envelope is so tiny and fragile it can be erased completely by a cloudy day.” one hesitates to suggest it, but perhaps Joe might consider investing in a light box. (anecdotal: setting up a light on a timer 10 mins ahead of my alarm chang
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“following are a few pointers for getting over the design ledge”
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clear, concise, clever & contextual.(tags: usability)
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trippy. possibly useful soon.(tags: css)
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Also, URLs can be reverse-engineered for 2005 and 2006. (2003 and 2004 are a bit more complicated.) Just reference for a possible future project.
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“I, for one, [welcome our new overlords].” some serious WTF going on here.
links for 2008-01-19
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such a crazy/cool idea. one is severely tempted.
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whoa. rock on, library of congress!(tags: photography)
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I often find his recipes too fussy for the average american kitchen, but this one looks like a winner.
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the coffeeshop on cherry st downtown has one of these. of course, I know pretty much nothing about coffee, except what I learned from an episode of good eats. 🙂 and C hates the french press, as do I. total PITA. “stovetop espresso” otoh works pretty well(tags: coffee)
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hm. my excuses for not biking to work until today: rain, icy roads, and darkness. today was dry, cold but not icy, and just light enough to be comfortable.
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crazy!
links for 2008-01-18
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fun with outlook/exchange.(tags: email-newsletter reference)
links for 2008-01-17
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very tempting, although I doubt I could get work to pay for it at this late date. Maybe tonite’s drupal event at the seattle times will help me decide whether this is the route I’m going to take.(tags: drupal)
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not particularly psyched about the faucet, but I love the idea of the itty-bitty cabinet.
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hail mary mother of jeebus. yes, we got a bill, altho thankfully to something that can take it. (and not, thank $DEITY, for thousands of dollars!) I’ve had my debit card # stolen, 10 years ago, that was one of the most frightening experiences I’ve ever ha
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word.(tags: blogosphere)
links for 2008-01-16
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lovely.
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hmmm…I actually have a couple of potatoes at home that need to get eaten….
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“My proposed code of civil conduct for higher ed, or speech code, if you prefer: I will separate the speaker from the speech.” — just a good rule in general.
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I think this is quite a bit smaller than previous versions – IMHO, a good thing. and I’ll be using this shortly!
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best buy in the “more power” range. looks like they can be found for under $200!
links for 2008-01-15
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“Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies.” — okay, THAT creeps me out. serious libertarian weirdo.
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(tags: intranet)
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probably won’t make until next spring, when I have (hopefully) my own peas & broccoli.
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what she said.
links for 2008-01-12
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grundtal! (we have this exact item in a box somewhere. also, grundtal was used in a game a while ago as the name of a fighter who appeared in response to a card drawn from the “deck of many things.”)
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lots and lots of caveats, but it seems like a reasonably good idea.
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“49 simple, clean, sometimes even minimalistic designs”(tags: design inspiration)
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I think this may be the best one yet, if not EVER.(tags: design)
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“the next time a politician tries to scare you with the European bogeyman, bear this in mind: Europe’s economy is actually doing O.K.”(tags: politics)