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[2004/01/30]
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another small-ish world moment. tkny (neighbor to dtut), hosts a party showing the work of my ex-roommate shiffy and the guy who moved into armin's house.
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[2004/01/29]
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this is a simple, sweet idea. wi-fi thank you is a site where free wifi users can post a small thank you note to a node owner in appreciation for the the use of their node. not a lot of direct practical purpose, but a really nice social touch.
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[2004/01/28]
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i addeed rss feed urls over in the [urls] sidebar for the macktez merged users' blog (exlcudes
this one) and the "official" macktez blog. . . is it obvious that i am supposed to be working on a proposal but am procrastinating?
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for some reason, google has decided that some of aman chaudhary's work (mostly boxer and cabaret, incidentally) lives here. since it seems that a number of visitors have arrived here looking for that work, please note that it can actually be found here.
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i'm sitting here at dt ut (eesh. what a site, btw) on their free wireless network, portishead rolling slipply around my head (rod was playing tricky at the dojo), reminded once again how good some of this techno gobbledegook can actually be.
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a quick note from my father today mentioned an old middle school friend of mine named eric stowers. if i recall clearly we made a comic book together (he drew, i inked?) involving mutant mice (i think we actually finished and made copies). word is that he is in nyc and has worked with avenging angels ad agency and founded a group called downtown for democracy (here's an article on them). google also tied his name to green ground zero (article from metropolis). all very interesting.
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another new internet explorer security hole? yes, and infoworld claims it could be devastating. . . uh oh. what about the last big hole? (the one that "microsoft’s failure to include a fix for the problem in its January patches has led many to believe it cannot be prevented") hm. that ain't patched yet either. not a happy pair.
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the boys over at sat (who i would have trackbacked too, but they have it off; what's up with that, tmonkey?) are spreading the word about this hektor spray-painting contraption. but as cool/crazy as it is (and has been for a few months now), let's not forget the illustrious graffiti writer or it's van-sized descendant street writer from the kids over at institute for applied autonomy (IAA).
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[2004/01/27]
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one more reason to take the train. amtrak adds wi-fi to a few rail stations. providence, new york, and delaware happen to be three of them.
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ah maria's, dear maria's. if i'd known you were across the street from my office yesterday, i'd have insisted you and your fire-head-adding friend come up for a hello.
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so the newly minted knight did some great programming in the early days: "The most embarrassing game was a lo-res graphics driving game called 'Donkey.' The player was supposed to be driving a car down a slowly scrolling, poorly rendered 'road,' and could hit the space bar to toggle the jerky motion. Every once in a while, a brown blob would fill the screen, which was supposed to be a donkey manifesting in the middle of the road. If you didn't hit the space bar in time, you would crash into the donkey and lose the game. We thought the concept of the game was as bad the crude graphics that it used. Since the game was written in BASIC, you could list it out and see how it was written. We were surprised to see that the comments at the top of the game proudly proclaimed the authors: Bill Gates and Neil Konzen. Neil was a bright teenage hacker . . . but we were amazed that such a thoroughly bad game could be co-authored by Microsoft's co-founder, and that he would actually want to take credit for it in the comments."
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happy year of the monkey. some photos are up from our chinese new years party last weekend.
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[2004/01/26]
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for $320 you can get yourself a nice little 2.4ghz dell box. remarkble how cheap a wintel machine can get when you from the win part. though i'm thinking you'd prob want to add the $60 to take the ram up to at least 256mb.
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a new mass-emailing windows virus is out on the town. /.'s got an article with links to all the usual sources. this would be your explanation, sidney.
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[2004/01/25]
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after chatting w a friend last light, i decided to go ahead and enable the the mt rss feed for this page. this one's for you, phil.
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[2004/01/24]
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so michael moore comes out hugely for clark. like crazy hugely. just saw columbine a few nights ago and i have mixed feelings about moore and his approach, but his article/letter explaining why he's in with clark is wonderfully
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[2004/01/23]
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movabletype bookmarklets don't seem to work as is in safari, but this modified script (from daniel j. luke's weblog via the main thread at sixapart) should work on any macktez blog.
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new template, now running on movable type (as is the rest of the macktez site now). can do comments (tho will be leaving that off for most posts) and trackback. speaking of trackback, here's one out to da evster.
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[2004/01/22]
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this making a high speed stop-motion camera with random doohickeys is cool (especially this shot of crackers). . . but this senate panel's GOP staff spying on democrats thing is so seriously not cool
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[2004/01/16]
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We're not doing so well. . . Mars vs Earth: "After all we have come to expect from this player, Mars Observer makes it all the way to Mars orbit insertion. After it's asked to pressurize a fuel tank... 'In space, noone can hear you go BOOM.'"
[2004/01/13]
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the primer from W3 on CSS2 and fonts. delicious.
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[2004/01/11]
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dang. maybe this really is the year of open source/linux/gnu/free softare/apple/anyone-but-microsoft. . . looks like this year the open source software that serves most of the worlds' web pages, apache, kicked the nuts off of microsft's IIS server by a huge margin: "Since October 2002 market share has grown from 53% to 64%, a 20% gain while Microsoft IIS, its nearest competitor has shrunk from 36% to 24%, a 33% decline. The change in server totals was even more dramatic. Apache HTTP Server increased from about 20 million to 32 million (+60%) while all other competitors remained flat."
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[2004/01/08]
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what is interesting about this /. article is not so much that the new version of photoshop adds banknote image detection, but (a) the ways it might work (using the "EURion Constellation") and (b) that copiers have had versions of this for 15 years.
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[2004/01/06]
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if missing sync for palm hadn't hosed my palm sync last year, i'd be more excited about the missing sync for hiptop (as in the danger/tmobile hiptop).
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[2004/01/05]
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put some photos up from 108 day.
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