Year: 2003
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Back down to zero
Command-K is my favorite keystroke combo in NNW… Mark All Unread, on a per subscription basis. It’s about 30 minutes later, and the red number is gone. Until tomorrow, anyway.
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51 subscriptions, 211 headlines unread
I use NetNewsWire Lite to read various news sources, blogs and otherwise. It’s somewhat daunting to start my day’s reading (usually at night, like now) with a big red “211” on the Dock icon. That means 211 headlines unread, from my 51 subscriptions. I fire through most of them, opening Safari window after Safari window…
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“…pounded like a piton into…
A sharp image, from David Gelernter’s essay “The Next Great American Newspaper,” in The Weekly Standard. This pointed vision describes the traditional ‘reverse pyramid’ style of journalism, but he’s more hunting the great beast that is traditional journalism. Style and bias are part of the story, but the larger point is about time vs. space.…
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In search of…
…a good search engine for this blog. OK, I’m not really that desparate, but until I can figure out a better month-long archive scheme, I have found myself frustrated by trying to find something I’ve written, after less than three months of posting! Since I’m lazy, I will read Tim Bray’s series on full-text search,…
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Weather index for web traffic…
Today was a sunny, clear, calm day in San Francisco. Maybe my memory is faulty, but it feels like we’ve had more of those this year than anytime in the last seven years. For those of us who sit in front of a computer as part of a job (in addition to hobbies like this…
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Am I ready?
Child #2 will arrive sometime soon. I’ve known this for, oh, about nine months. 😉 That said, I admit to still being only ‘mostly ready’ for the arrival. I guess I feel that I’ve been through this before, and I know what to expect. At the same time, though, I’m sure (a) the birth will…
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Finding Nemo
Contrary to one friend’s report, the movie Finding Nemo was… well… OK. Not the best Pixar movie. Fun, fine, OK, but nothing special. Enough scary parts that I don’t think Benjamin will see it for a while.
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Moral victory…? Whatever.
Played as a sub again for the Longshots, Vin’s floor hockey team. Had to play short-handed, and lost 8-5. Going to be sore tomorrow, and tired now. Once were athletes… or something like that.
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Introducing the credit card
A bit of a history lesson for identity systems: the 1958 introduction of the credit card, at least a quick review of said event. This article mentions gives credit to “Joseph Nocera’s excellent book, “A Piece of the Action.”” — I’ll have to add that to my list at some point.
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First ride on a Segway
OK, it was one minute long, but at least now I can say I’ve been on one. Stepping on, you have to relax… it rocked back and forth as I tried to compensate, rather than letting the Segway do the work. After those initial seconds, it was stable, and while I didn’t go more than…