Year: 2005
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Successful migration to WordPress
When this is visible without editing your hosts file, then I’ve successfully switched DNS and clock is now running on WordPress 1.5.2 at TextDrive. 3:00am Success! (At least for the website… e-mail is still dodgy.) Comments and TrackBacks are enabled on a go-forward basis, and more tweaking can commence. Now comes all the small stuff.…
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Merry Christmas
Other than the grey rain, it’s quite a Merry Christmas here in San Francisco. Hope you have a merry one, too, even if it’s not as dinosaur-centric as the five year old’s holiday.
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Hmm…. this was almost THE skill for a college education
I’ve saved page D1 of the December 7, 2005 Wall Street Journal for two reasons. The professional reason was the review of mobile web sites, which includes on the D4 jump a reference and “pseudo-screenshot” of CNET Mobile (http://m.cnet.com/). The personal reason was more important. In an article “Many Colleges Ignore New SAT Writing Test,”…
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Movie: Syriana
Syriana left me deeply mixed. That review feels like a cop-out, but it’s all I can do a few days later. The story stretched, badly. The movie didn’t drag, but its efforts were too blatant somehow. Yet some of the characters were compelling, and I am glad I saw the movie simply to get visuals…
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Can it be that simple?
Simple means launching something… it certainly does. Del.icio.us wasn’t working at this second, but a useful kick-in-the-ass post worth recording here instead.
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Always miss something
I didn’t know Mike, my friend and colleague from CNET Networks was blogging over at 37Signals until I read it on Matt’s post. Sigh… can’t ever keep up.
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Tintin, for young and old
I have several Tintin books, so this BBC Faces of the Week magazine piece caught my eye via a promo while I was looking for Cristiano Ronaldo photos. I hope Steven Spielberg, who has owned an option on a live-action film of the character/books since 1982, gets around to trying his hand at making this…
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Book: The Manchurian Candidate
I usually link to the official author or publisher’s site for books I’ve read, but for The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon, I’ll use Wikipedia. (Go there for quick plot summary, if you don’t know the basic thread.) After all, I had the pleasure of reading a 1959 first edition from McGraw-Hill, which no longer…
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Book: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe
During a cold, quiet afternoon in Brooklyn nine days ago, I picked up The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. I read the entire series a long time ago, and this thin volume didn’t seem like it could contain all that I remember of this start to the fabulous tales of…
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When showoff becomes artistry
I skimmed through Manchester United’s 2-0 win over Aston Villa this afternoon, and in extra time, Cristiano Ronaldo almost turned his usual cheeky footwork in a masterpiece. Man U was already winning 2-0 when in the 93rd minute Ronaldo ran through a few stepovers before crossing the ball from his right foot by kicking behind…