I’ve shut down the ‘blog@’ e-mail address I used exclusively for leaving comments on other people’s blogs. I’d started getting ~25 spam e-mails a day at that address and decided to kill it before it got out of hand. Spam seems to grow exponentially. 🙂 Now e-mail to that address will bounce with a message…
August, 2004
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Dying Vacuum Cleaner + New Puppy = New Vaccuum Cleaner I’ve done some reading at Epinions and looked at the Hoover web site, but I’m not much closer to knowing what to get. Bagless sounds good, quiet is good, HEPA filter is good, lots of sucking power is good… Anyone out there have any recommendations?
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We went and visited our puppy last night, what a cutie. Naturally, we took more photos. 🙂 She’s grown quite a bit since we saw her last week and her eyes have opened. At the moment, it looks like she’ll have blue eyes. I got photos with each eye open enough that I could see…
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I did some testing and provided some feedback for a pre-alpha version of an OS project today. It was a treat to see the great progess being made in that project (I’ll post more details when the work goes public). I’m glad I was able to contribute a little something. The back and forth critique…
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My fantasy baseball team in my keeper league has been steadily climbing since a very slow start that first month. I’ve climbed from last or next to last place in the first month to first place with a ~10 point cushion. I’m going to have some tough decisions to make for next year’s keeper squad.…
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I did a lot of web site design and development in the mid and late 1990’s, particularly for a number of small businesses. About a year after I built a site for one of my clients, they were concerned that they weren’t getting enough search engine traffic and worked with a search engine consultant to…
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I’ve recently read people complaining that the stylesheets on my WordPress CSS Styles page only work on WordPress 1.0.2, not on WordPress 1.2. They were upset that there was no notice on the page for which version of WP the styles worked with. This seems like a reasonable complaint except for one thing: as far…
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Doonesbury: 2004-08-08, 2004-08-11 Getting What You Wished For — The Hardball Times. I kept Santana in my keeper league last year. Punny guys Enterprise Security Today (Online Security): NewsFactor Network – Windows Security – Feds Warn Against Microsoft’s Browser Living and Working in the Virtual Workplace – I can relate, both as a BigCo employee…
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I’ve started working on task templates and, as expected, it’s gotten complex rather quickly. I’m confident that I’ve got a good back-end design in place, I just need to finish the implementation. The front end interface is still somewhat up in the air. I think I know how I’m going to present most of the…
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We put down a deposit on a Miniature Australian Shepherd puppy last night. She’s a blue merle, and should look a bit like her mom. We’ll be bringing her home in October when she’s about 10 weeks old, so we have time to get the house in order. We’re still working on a name. 🙂
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I watched Barry Zito pitch against the Tigers last night because I’m still trying to decide if I should keep him or AJ Burnett for my team next year. In the games I’ve seen, Zito’s main problem has been with his command, getting beat when he misses his target. Zito pitched well, but what I…
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At the moment, I don’t think any of my PHP software will run on PHP 5. This isn’t that big a deal as most ISPs don’t even offer PHP 5 as an option (and won’t for a little while), but it is something I plan to work on. I’d read so much about the backward…
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I’ve released Photos 4.1. This release adds basic internationalization support and fixes all reported bugs in verion 4.0.1. Here is the change list: Added localization support Reduced HTML footprint Changed the get limit from 500 to 300 Allow viewing the portfolio by list Added a check that may allow Photos to work with GD 1.6…
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About three months after moving in, we finally used the hot tub for the first time tonight. Over the last few weekends we got a new cover and drained the tub and cleaned it thoroughly. Then I had the pleasure of reading through all the various instructions to get the chemical balance right and get…
