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The Worst-Case Scenario 2003 Daily Survival Calendar sits on my desk at work. Today’s lesson is by far the best, especially when contrasted to other days like “today in survival history,” “how to escape when tied up,” “how to take a punch,” etc.: How to Foil a UFO Abduction Control your thoughts. Do not think […]

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Beginning at 5:38pm EST (2:38pm here in California) on Wednesday, I will be participating in the Virtual March on Washington by making the following phone calls to my senators and to the White House: Senator Feinstein 202-224-3841 5:38PM Eastern Time February 26, 2003 Senator Boxer 202-224-3553 5:43PM Eastern Time February 26, 2003 The White House […]

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My friend Dan has a good idea: A blog caption contest. Follow the link below and you’ll see my entry in the contest, too: The Accidental Blog: Write your own caption.

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I am typing this blog entry from the floor of my living room on my Power Mac 7600/120, which I’ve not used in years — yes, years. One of my projects for the weekend was to get this machine up and running again. Several years ago — I can’t pinpoint exactly when, but it was […]

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Back in December I wrote about my longing for my old QBert watch that I owned as a kid. Today this guy in Pennsylvania did a Google search in an attempt to find someone who might be interested in his old watch. Guess whom he found? Yup, for 40 bucks plus shipping and handling, the […]

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This is so cool (the aerial photos, that is; not that there were fewer protesters than originally estimated): Photos show 65,000 at peak of S.F. rally / Aerial study casts doubt on estimates of 200,000 Be sure to check out the photo special and the incredible high-resolution photos.

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I’ve always liked to collect quotes. Who doesn’t? Until now, though, I’ve never had a centralized location to store said quotes. Sure, they’ve traveled over the years from scraps of paper to my PDA to Yahoo! Notepad, but now, at long last, there’s a section of my Web site dedicated to housing my favorite quotes: […]

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This is a great parody of modern life in terrorist-fearing America: Ready.gov – Be Informed – Killer Germs – Visual Guide Here’s a snippet: Don’t get so preoccupied with biological weapons that you forget to put on deodorant.

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Based on this DreamHost announcement, I relaunched my contact form so that rather than depending on DreamHost’s form-mail cgi as I previously did, any submission via my contact form now writes to a table in my database and automatically generates an email notification to me with each new post. It’s really cool. And quite simple. […]

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This seems like a really cool add-on to Movable Type: MTshell (a command line frontend to MovableType) I just may have to install this. I use the shell for everything else (email, database management, etc.), so why not blog there, too?

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