So on January 1 of this yearI wrote a “year ahead” post. It was perhaps an easy post as far as predictions go. But that’s what punditry is about right?
Let’s review:
We get a house
This was a pretty easy prediction, but it still feels like a nice accomplishment for the year. [...]
Dear WordPress devs.
I really appreciate the work you do on WordPress. I appreciate your open source philosophy - I appreciate your contributions to the community of a relatively easy-to-use software package that has been a part of a revolution in how people communicate. Long ago, I threw away my own blogging [...]
Facebook, Quechup, and now Twitter.
Folks, I’ve had it. This is not a feature. It started going downhill when I was still briefly using Facebook, before my permanent embargo - and I got friendship invitation from Hugh MacLeod. Yes - that Hugh MacLeod.
You might would have thought [...]
The brown-eyed girl and I went to Cary tonight so that she could go to Kohl’s - and I decided to go over to Best Buy.
I hate Best Buy, but there’s a lot of stuff in Best Buy that I like, so it’s fun to go now and again. Thankfully I’ve learned the [...]
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Posted 22 September 2007
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Dear Morale,
I yearn for you tragically.
- Yossarian
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Posted 26 July 2007
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Two years ago today I started in my current job, after just under 5 years doing systems and people management in NCSU’s College of Engineering IT group. I wrote my first post three days in talking about the sheer panic of dealing with some kind of java problem.
I was so excited then. So [...]
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Posted 18 July 2007
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When I first graduated from College, I went to work for CompuCom - who in 1996 was trying to change their business model from the dying dinosaur of reselling Compaq and HP (then two separate companies) and IBM to a service business, and I was a college hire, sent to build and bolster the resell [...]
Why oh why, doesn’t Keynote automatically save work? Especially two days before one’s presentation?
Inquiring minds would really like to know.
I just upgraded my iTunes purchased songs to the DRM-free versions.
After a bumpy start in downloading them with lots of ridiculously obscure errors - it finally went off without a hitch.
Of course, the only ones that I had purchased that are now DRM Free, were an album from the Blind Boys of Alabama and an [...]
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Posted 02 June 2007
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Wow.
I started checking my referer logs (okay, actually technorati, google analytics, and my hosting providers webstats) - and it seems that this image (the one in my previous memorial day post) of a gravestone at the Raleigh National Cemetery that I took in May 2004 has spread like wildfire.
That’s actually a wonderful thing. [...]
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Posted 28 May 2007
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So ComputerWorld posted The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills (via Michael DeHaan)
I love these - It’s the tech geek equivalent of your granddad and the bucket of books up hill both ways in the snow.
My report card.
I’m so incredibly happy I never touched cobol or fortran. I came into Computer Science [...]
So for the first time that I can recall - I actually wanted to listen to an audio clip of an interview at NPR. You see, I like my web in text. But I do typically like NPR and wanted to hear Scott Simon interview Andy Griffith
But NPR, while they apparently get the [...]
From Keith Whitney
“Few things retain their coolness across generations.”
I had a Macintosh Plus at my co-op job at GTE Government Systems - complete with beer can mouse. When I managed to finagle myself a leftover IIci - that was the greatest day ever.
My first personal Macintosh was a 6100/AV - then [...]
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Posted 25 April 2007
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I really like the content for the about.com photography blog.
However, I’m really annoyed by the fact that they don’t have full feeds.
Actually, I might could handle the lack of full feeds (I do handle this for arstechnica) when the content is good enough to click through from the teaser. However, about.com’s links take me [...]
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Posted 14 April 2007
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Shelly Powers resurrected a post a few days ago on javascript “widgets” (without much thought you could extend this to any blob of javascript doing http requests and fun little rendering things with local and server data without refreshing the page).
It’s a long piece, that I think boils down to “web designers should use them [...]
So, I’m not all that upset personally that Leopard was delayed until October I really didn’t want to worry with it at work - and this further delays the pressure on my strong desire to get a new home computer.
Apple also published a KB article on parental controls in Dictionary.app to prevent “profanity” from [...]
I took this picture a few weeks ago (along with this one) had originally marked this photo as rejected - but I hadn’t deleted it yet - and in the process of showing some of the features in Lightroom -
we spotted this cloud formation:
It’s no Mother Theresa in a sticky bun or anything - [...]
Most days when I get to the end of the day, I can’t remember half of what I did that day. When people ask me what I did - I can’t really tell them. This, of course, is horribly demoralizing because I begin to doubt whether I actually did anything, or [...]
The content for rambleon.org and in its feed is now covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license
It was long overdue - mainly just laziness on my part.
Anyone, anywhere reading this blog is free to reproduce my original content and adapt it as you see fit, provided that you provide attribution (a link back to this [...]
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Posted 04 April 2007
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Thanks to a couple of line changes in the wpLicense plugin - namely after line 384 - adding:
add_action(’atom10_head’, ‘cc_atom_head’);
and because of what is likely an output buffering issue somewhere - I had to change line 84 from:
link rel=”license” type=”text/html” href=”‘.licenseUri().’”
to:
link rel=”license” type=”text/html” href=”‘.get_option(’cc_content_license_uri’).’”
(yes, I need to debug this - it’s kind of a hack)
I now [...]
