Archive for November, 2007
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
RPOTD
“Name” “starts with” “love” Love 2 The 9′s, by Prince Love 4 U, by LMS Love and Happiness, by Al Green Love and Happiness, by John Mellencamp Love and Marigolds, by Original Score Love and Marriage, by Frank Sinatra Love at First Sight, by Styx Love Bizarre, by Prince Love Bizarre (Live), by Prince Love [...]
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Boo!
.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: right; text-align: center; margin-left: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } IMG_5473, originally uploaded by bbendick. My first Halloween costume in 27 or 28 years.
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
(re)Learning
It’s interesting to realize the things that seem second nature to us, but actually have to be learned. When Jane was playing T-Ball, for instance, the entire infield would converge on a ball, rather than someone actually covering a base. Today’s lesson, though, was a dictionary. No one had really taught her how to use [...]
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
Things I learned on the MOO
I spent many, many, many, many hours of my early internet life at LamdbaMOO. Many posts of material could come out of that, but for now I’ll just highlight one important lesson I learned. Straight from the help file that’s still there today: When paging, just page the question. You don’t need to start with [...]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
SL8TR
Thiscan be a handy plugin if you’re a thunderbird user. You can use it to mail you about something later. Or you might have something you want to capture, but don’t want to bug someone about right now exactly. This morning I used it because the mail server I was sending to was flat out [...]
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
The War on the Unexpected
Bruce Schneier has a great blog on security, technical and physical. Today’s post about The War on the Unexpected is exceptionally good.
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
I finally get it!
Like most people I’ve chatted about street view with, I just didn’t get it. It seemed like a curious novelty. Maybe useful to scout out somewhere you might be going and get a lay of the land, but even that seems specious. But today I got a chance to use it fill a niche in [...]