August, 2011
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I’ve been snapping a few more shots on the walk between the hotel and the office, and this afternoon got out for more sight-seeing. We’ve been fortunate with the weather – some really nice days and great light for photography.
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I think I’m the anti-@sogrady. I managed to get sunburned in San Francisco last week, and now in London.
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“Did you upgrade your blog to (WP) 3.3?”
“Yes.”
“Is your goal to not have any working electronic systems in your life?”
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This really illustrates the growth of my True Reach over time. All the way up to 2k now from a measly 2k back in July. Visualizing the data really drives this home. I poke fun, but Klout is doing a nice job rapidly iterating their offering.
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This is exactly the phone I wanted and would have bought 3 years ago.
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Mine simply says “Reward if found.” with my phone number. First thing I did when I got the laptop was encrypt the hard drive. Seems like a no-brainer for any computer you travel with.
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The actual number of social interactions I have with friends hasn’t been impacted by the Internet. But I do worry that the quality of those interactions has taken a hit because everyone in the room is not only connected to each other, but also to everything else in the world.
I’ve been without a connected mobile device this week in London. I considered getting a temporary phone with international data (T-Mobile has international BlackBerry data for $20/month), but decided against it. It’s been weird.
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A super simple bash function for opening the source of a URL in BBEdit. This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters Show hidden characters bbcurl ()…
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I am planning to use Gist to embed code snippets on this site and Takayuki Miyauchi has created a nice plugin to enable this in WordPress via oEmbed. I created a slightly modified version that adds NOSCRIPT support (for feeds, etc.).
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We had a free afternoon in London and needed to stay awake to try to get acclamated to the time zone, so we spent it walking around and taking photos of the various structures and such. There is a lot of good material here. I was going back and forth between a borrowed S90 (thanks…
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This is a smart change that I fully support. A few things that I wrote years ago (and that I never plan to update, or are now obsolete) will definitely fall into this category. A few more recent things I’ve been involved with probably need to be sunset as well. Trying to determine the right way to do that.
