Month: November 2006
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ISPCON instead of Web 2.0
In the past, I’d be paying more attention to the Web 2.0 conference this week in San Francisco, November 7-9. Instead, I’ll be in Santa Clara for the same three days for ISPCON, the semi-annual conference for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the companies which work with them. We’ll be announcing a new service for…
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Movie: The Sentinel
Last night, we watche a popcorn action movie with Michael Douglas once again hanging around the White House, this time as a Secret Service agent. I just described The Sentinel, and there’s a reason why I’d never even heard of the movie before. But at least it keeps moving, and it’s not too long. Metacritic…
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Movie: Mystic River
We’ve had Mystic River out from Netflix since late April. Friday night, we finally made time for it. I was looking forward to this movie, perhaps too much, since I didn’t love it. The opening scene, which ripples through the rest of the story, is ominous: one of three boys is abducted and sexually abused…
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Movie: Little Children
We were looking for a lighter movie on Thursday evening. Little Children wasn’t it. Still, a worthwhile movie which I’d add to your future DVD queue, without worrying about seeing it in theaters. This is a character story, centered around the affair between the mother of a small child with the father of a small…
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Book: Basket Case
Carl Hiaasen’s Basket Case is another romp through a South Florida sprinkled with, ahem, characters. You’ll never have so much fun reading about an obituary writer. π
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When all else fails, just raise your feet
New York Times article about marathons, in preparation for this morning’s race “Everything You Know About Marathons Is Wrong.” The fear of dehydration and hot weather is overrated, and cramps don’t happen because of improper fueling. Unclear how certain this science is, but matches my experiences more. Γ’β¬ΕWe completely changed the way we treat patients,”…
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Sadness is losing all your contacts
At work today, Mac OS X Address Book just blanked at some point. Hundreds of contacts gone. The Treo still had the information, so I carefully checked Missing Sync (which I use to sync the Treo) and made sure it was set to Synchronize, not Overwrite Handheld. Mistake… there was no setting for Handheld overwrite…
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Tuesday track: 800m, six times
It’s been six weeks since my last time on the track, and seven weeks since I last did 800m repeats. Yesterday morning, I joined Billy in the early morning at Kezar once more, and put in six 800m pieces, with 400m jogging between each one (plenty of rest). We didn’t go after it early…the first…
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David Pogue touts OpenDNS
As noted on the OpenDNS corporate blog, David Pogue learned about OpenDNS, gave it a try, and loved it, according to what he wrote on his NYTimes.com blog today: My wife and I are totally loving the new speed. DonÒ⬙t tell Open DNS [sic], but we even would have paid for it. Back in the…