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Losing Weight
Between Jeremy Zawodny losing 50 pounds over the past year and Aaron Swartz having success with the Shangri-La Diet I decided a month ago to (again) make a serious concerted effort to lose some...
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A minor update of the JustBlogIt firefox extension has been released. This update fixes a problem with blogging from within Bloglines and includes updates to work in Firefox 2.0b1.
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SONOS and mime-types
I ran across a fairly obscure problem with the Sonos music system related to mime-types, file extensions and dynamically generated playlists. This is fair warning that this post will get a tad...
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Born: Orion Eric Lloyd Parker
My wife and I had a kid a few months back. His name is Orion. After the constellation from Greek mythology. We've been busy obviously and that's why it has taken me almost 3 months to announce this....
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FSJ RIP
I was saddened to discover that the real identity of Fake Steve Jobs was discovered and also revealed. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the blog -- especially through the iPhone launch -- and now it is too...
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Missing Media
Hello loyal readers. Are you still there? I like to tell people I've had a blog since 2001, but with my lack of posts my old-skool-blogger smirk is starting to fade. There was a recent hard drive crash...
View ArticleSONOS Improvements
I've had the SONOS music system (3 zoneplayers, 1 controller) for almost 2 years and am still extremely happy with it. It has replaced our radio and stereo and has resulted in us listening to way more...
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Efficient Feed Reading
I subscribe to over 150 blogs and until a few months ago I had them categorized by subject and context. I had a 'work' set, a 'play' set, a 'tech' set etc. With so many feeds and such a crude...
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Homeless Blogger
While digging through my blog archives to see how bad the linkrot has gotten I came across a link that is worth revisiting. I first blogged about The Homeless Guy back in 2003 and I'm happy to see that...
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Google Translation API
A quick post to try out the new Google Translation API. This API allows web developers to do dynamic text translation from within a webpage. Specify some text, set the language to translate from/to and...
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Email DOT com
Having one's email address appear plaintext on a website is something most people try and avoid. Spammer's actively harvest email addresses from the public web and very few want their address on yet...
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Flickr Google Gadget
If you are a fan of Flickr and happen to use iGoogle you may want to check out a Flickr Gadget I recently wrote. It looks like this: The gadget currently offers three tabs/views. You can see either the...
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Photographic Utopia
It seems to me the ideal camera is one which doesn't involve a series of tradeoffs but instead allows one to dictate the photograph they intend to take. With current cameras, if you want a shallow...
View ArticleCheap Bastard #1
And so begins the first in a series of postings where I detail how I can sometimes be a cheap bastard. To start things off I bring your three recent examples: .Mac Trial account surfing The GTD...
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@FriendFeed
Who knows when I'll get up the nerve/time/patience/interest/huevos to post some lengthy post here again. If interested I'd suggest checking out what I'm doing at FriendFeed. It nicely pulls together my...
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