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Archive for February, 2005
Back of the envelope math
Reading the email that’s going around about the evolution of math skills on Chad’s blog, I’m reminded of my neighbors on the plane from San Francisco last month. They were a middle aged Canadian couple returning from what must have been a short visit to the Bay Area. Like everyone else on the plane, they [...]
Kubrickr
Found Kubrickr, which lets me easily change the masthead picture by cropping suitably licensed pictures from flickr. Cute. (except it doesn’t do attribution automatically — the current one is from Stewart Butterfield)
Software upgrade
Sunset on glass I’ve upgraded to WordPress 1.5 — let me know if something’s not working the way you think it should.
I finally got my battery charger
ducks Those near me have heard the shaggy dog stories about the perapetic new digital camera and the loss of the spare battery and, most importantly, charger. The replacement units I ordered to fill in that void have finally arrived, and now those near me are dealing with pent up photographic energy. Luckily for me, [...]
Upcoming Conferences
I’ll be stopping by Northern Voice tomorrow, and, if anyone cares, will also be going to ETech and PyCon in March.
Beautiful Fonts
From Darren, a pointer to this collection of “best fonts of 2004″. The work involved in something like Bickham is amazing.
If not Google, maybe Novell?
A few hours after posting my last post, Novell announces Hula. From what Nat says, it may do some of what I was asking for…
What I want: Google Calendar
It just dawned on me. I want Google to do an online calendaring system. Yeah, it won’t solve 95% of my scheduling problems because it won’t have access to behind-the-firewall data and it won’t do the collaboration part of scheduling, but at the least it’ll have a more usable UI than what I’m working with [...]
