Year: 2003
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Link parking
I’m stealing the title from another blog (can’t remember which one), but here’s a host of links I’ve been meaning to record. This small bunch will clean out my inbox. I’ll leave my Safari bookmarks for another time. Tim Bray on OSCOM sessions, back in September, comments: The sessions (I thought) went well, and here’s…
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Slashdot thread on MyLastEmail.com
I thought MyLastEmail.com sounded like a ridiculous idea. I beat Slashdot to this topic, where everyone except the original poster comes up with various reasons why this is a dumb idea. One area I hadn’t considered: how do you know the last email won’t be blocked as spam? Ouch.
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The making of Legos
Fun Flash presentation of Lego construction… the actual construction of the Legos themselves. [via Emergic, via Boing-Boing]
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“rank, profession or occupation”
A friend gave me the Forgotten English calendar for 2003 last Christmas, and I’ve been enjoying several of the words. On Saturday September 28, the word of the day was nannick, which means “to play idly, to fidget.” However, I saved that day’s page not because of the word, but because of the tidbit about…
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The audience is reading
Was it THX or Dolby that first started running those short promotional clips before the movie started touting how incredible the sound system is? “The audience is listening” is my memory of one of the tag lines. (Per Google, it’s THX.) I still think my audience can be counted on two hands, but there’s at…
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13 channels
The adventure continues. Thanks to Comcast (no thanks), we’re back to 13 channels. So much for the Rugby World Cup and beyond. Too ridiculous a tale to tell right now… we’ll see if we have signal in the morning.
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Version 1.0, research project; Version…
Dave Winer of UserLand created MailToTheFuture.com in 1998. Just something he did on a lark, seemingly, where you could set up an email to send to yourself (or others) in the future. I used it a few times to send myself an email as a reminder for a dentist appointment or small things like that.…
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Comcast does it again
All the channels beyond basic cable went kaput sometime on Thursday. I was running around during the interim, noticed the problem yesterday, but really had time to deal with it today. FYI, the TiVo provided the evidence of when the problem started, because a Premier League football match was recorded at 1am Thursday, but the…
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Making a list
I bought my second copy of Omni Outliner at the end of last week, for the desktop. I’ve gotten hooked on the PowerBook, where it came installed, and decided that the endless To Do list in my head needed to be more tangible. Decided is a cover-up for a longer discussion, but let’s leave it…
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Congrats, Ed & Susie
Fun, small wedding yesterday and Friday night. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy, and we all rightfully celebrated ‘his Edness.’ If you know him, you know. A great side-benefit was dinner with another college roommate, Kristan, whom I haven’t seen since visiting Boston to run the Marathon in April 2001. He’s doing well, and I…