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Flemming Funch put up this post yesterday with the latest on the IAO. He also provides a link to a great article in SF Weekly by Matt Smith, who encourages Californians to call the home of the criminal who’s running the new federal agency, and to ask him lots of questions about privacy (I think […]

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My upgrade to Movable Type 2.51 went quite smoothly. If I had known how easy it was, I probably would have done it sooner. It was simply a matter of downloading the upgrade archive, uploading it to my Web server, then moving the new files into the right directory. And voila! Everything works beautifully and […]

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I just exported all my blog entries for the first time to create a local backup (since I’m going to attempt to upgrade to Movable Type 2.51, the latest version; right now I’m running 2.5, and apparently the latest version solves the problem I’ve been having with creating thumbnails of uploaded images). Here’s the cool […]

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My friend Jess emailed a link today to this hilarious Lord of the Rings spoof starring Jack Black and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Apparently it was done at the MTV Movie Awards. It cracks me up.

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For the first time in as long as I can remember, I bought new bindings: Look Nova 11. They’re at my local ski shop now being mounted on my new skis, which will also be getting a new ski tune-up. This is very cool. Come to think of it, this is a pretty big deal. […]

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Looking for the ideal way to tie your shoes? Look no further. Using combinatorial mathematics, often used to calculate resource allocation, our Aussie friend Burkard Polster has determined the most efficient way to tie your shoes. This is huge. We’re not just talking about 1 in a million, baby. We’re talking 1 in 400 million. […]

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In my continuing research on Google, I just read a really interesting article about Google Bombing, the concept of rallying a community of bloggers together to link to a specific site using a specific phrase. Of course, that’s what Google’s algorithms are all about: Content and links to content. What I really love about the […]

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I sure do love ’80s arcade games. As a Child of the Eighties, I occasionally have this longing to reconnect with my boyhood days. And what better way to connect than playing some Webized versions of the same Atari games we grew up playing? Tonight I had a longing for QBert, one of my all-time […]

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My new Web site continues to come together, and its extensibility was proven today, as I seamlessly added a new writing portfolio to the site. This is a tremendous improvement over my old writing portfolio, which was just a bunch of static HTML pages that were nearly impossible to manage. And forget changing the design. […]

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I certainly plan to “avoid the compression of penile arteries.” According to a new study, men who ride 3,000+ miles on mountain bikes per year may be at risk of infertility. Good thing I haven’t ridden a bike in ages. But when I do get back on one, I’ll have to get some kind of […]

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