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Only 24 hours lef to enter the Free Blog Makeover Contest! I’ve gotten some great submissions. It will be a tough decision. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t still enter!
Get your essays to me before the stroke of Midnight Pacific … »
Only one week left to enter the Free Blog Makeover Contest! All essays must be submitted no later than midnight Pacific Time Saturday, 28 February 2004.… »
Recently a family member asked for help with a design project. I agreed, but it brought back to mind the last time I worked for family. I’ll share it.
A few years ago my uncle was running for Senator of an East … »
Uncanny physics of comic book superheroes
Can you teach a physics class with only comic books to illustrate the principles? University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios has been doing it since 1995, when he explained the principle of conservation
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Today I started a new consulting gig training in Quark. It’s a lot of fun. It’s also profitable, but the fun is the main draw for me. The gig should last about two weeks.
For more on Quark, see these very active … »
I found the below in a publicly posted job opening. Its good to know exactly what you want in an employee.
If you have experience in the printing, copying and/or kissing ass/Graphic Arts fields please join our ranks.
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A glitch this week in Amazon.com’s site software revealed the real names of thousands of people who had posted anonymous reviews of books… And it revealed a whole new world of cutthroat, petty, and often juvenile behavior among published authors and … »
Pagans (from what I am told) don’t get married, they get hand fasted. Is hand fasting even valid according to the state/courts?
No, it’s not legal in and of itself. Couples who become hand-fasted must either use a priestess … »
Oh. My. God. What a shamelessly pointless extravagance. Moreover, what a naked ploy for men’s money.
My Love Affair with Acer’s Ferrari Notebook
Every other notebook I have ever had pales in comparison to my new Ferrari-branded notebook from
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CNN.com — Carlie Brucia’s body found; murder charges filed — Feb. 6, 2004
God damn it! I wish they had found her alive. Eleven years old…
We have an eight and a six year old. As a parent, the Carlie Brucia case, … »
According to an e-mail I got from someone referencing my post Computer Meltdown (restoration):
BTW, your new computer looks like ‘Queer Eye’ picked it out.
That’s funny. Thanks!… »
As you may recall from my Computer Meltdown (literally) post, this past Wednesday I burnt out not only my computer’s power supply, but its CPU, the CPU fan, and three case fans. The CPU chip was … »
SuperHeroHype.com has tons of hype and news on a slew of super hero movies in production or pre-production. Along with the obvious X-Men 3, Spider-Man 2, DareDevil 2, and Hulk 2, … »
After a while of trying to figure out how I wanted it, I finally did something useful with categories today.
As you can see in the secondary and terciary navigation links at left (between this column and the photo), I’ve expanded … »
Aw, shucks! You can’t scan $20 USD bills into Photoshop any more. Interesting.
Wired News: Copy No-No: Adobe and Uncle Sam
Adobe acknowledged last week that its Photoshop CS digital editing package includes a “counterfeit deterrence system” designed to prevent users
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I posted a new SysMetrix skin to WinCustomize. The skin is part of a suite of skins I’m building for DesktopX, WindowBlinds, Quintessential CD Player (“QCD”), CursorXP, Bootskin, and probably IconPackager. The entire suite, like the SysMetrix skin shown
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This is how a single lapse in e-mail address dilligence two years ago can result in an ongoing flood of hundreds of spam messages per week.
As you know my system was down for a couple of weeks while I moved. This … »
