February 2010
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On Caring and Creative Guilt
This morning I found myself looking at my phototography website; really looking at it, as if I were a stranger stumbling upone it for the first time. And as I wandered through the photos there, I noticed myself having two distinctly different reactions. One was wow, there are some really nice photographs here, and the other was man, I really need to update this old dog… everyone must think...
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“I wonder what it must have felt like to be creatively productive before there...”
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thebomb.com [.net] →
A new favorite music Tumblr.
(And the theme by Jacob Bijani is killer.)
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Another Open Letter To Apple Re: iDisk
Dear Apple,
Why have you not already used just a tiny fraction of the engineering horsepower you no doubt posses, to make iDisk what it truly ought to be? What? What’s that?… “what should it be,” you ask?… Well, funny you should ask; let me tell you what iDisk should be, in a word: Dropbox. You may have heard of it? It’s this little...
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All teachers get pink slips at Rhode Island school →
mar-see-ah:
This seems like a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A little extreme.
I disagree completely. This sounds like a case of a school board getting some stones and doing what a school board should do. Teachers unions have a strangle-hold on education in this country and it’s time more school districts and school boards started standing up to them.
This part is...
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Trying out Notations theme
I’m almost ready to put this one out there; it just needs a few more tweaks. Couple cool features: it takes advantage of high res photos whenever possible, it uses base64-encoded fonts to look good in the good browsers, it’s got a nice word count feature for text posts (I originally designed the theme just for writing), it’s got a nice “print this post” option, and a...
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Anonymous asked: You appear to enjoy fine coffee. What are your thoughts on Kopi Luwak?
Anonymous asked: Do you have any good stories from your driver's education days?
Anonymous asked: What is the highest altitude that you have climbed to under your own power? Did you get a good story from the hike?
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Anonymous asked: What is your favorite four dollar coffee drink?
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Anonymous asked: Do you know anybody who owns ferrets? How long do you figure it will take for that distinct odor to totally dissipate?
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Cargo →
Is awesome.
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Borrowing a Magic Mouse for a couple days to try it out. I’m smitten. It’s hard to quantify, but the scrolling-with-momentum thing is just glorious. Weird how a little piece of hardware can dramatically change how it feels to use your computer. (I guess it’s not really that weird considering my hand is on that thing about 8 hours a day on average.)
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ONE THOUSAND.
This is my 1000th post. Now you know.
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WatchThe development of Twitter, visualized and awesomized by Code Swarm. Icons represent developers, and particles represent files added or modified.
This is the kind of thing that means almost nothing (except “ooo, pretty!”) to most people, but to anyone who works with code day in and day out this is mind-blowing.
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Anonymous asked: Do you still have your tonsils, appendix and wisdom teeth? Anything else missing?
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Love that Facebook.
No I don’t I really hate it.
So I tried making the following status update on Facebook a couple minutes ago, but it was apparently too long to BE a status update, so I’m putting it here.
I just discovered how fun (and what a rush) it was to type a really horrible HORRIBLE status update — something sure to make me sound like the World’s Biggest Jerk — and just look at it,...
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“You “focus” on the one thing you care about, as you “unfocus” on everything...”
– First, care. | Merlin Mann
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Adaptation →
Ok, THIS is now the best article I’ve read re: iPad.