01.24.04
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at 9 pm
The list of Web Power Tools that Nick and I put together has gathered a good set of referring links already:
Now I’m off to update my contact information to point to my new domain: http://www.rossolson.com
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01.22.04
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at 3 pm
So last night, Nick Finck and I presented a great set of tools for Web development at the DevGroup Meeting. I’ve written up the notes from the Web Power Tools meeting as one of my WebDev articles.
I even got the following note afterwards:
THANK YOU for a great DevGroup presentation, last night. We’ve decided you are “fated” to be a teacher. Thank you for sharing.
Well that was sure nice.
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01.20.04
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at 11 pm
Okay this doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I installed OpenOffice.org, the open-source office suite. It uses the X11 environment, which I know is different from the Aqua environment, but I don’t know what’s up with the anti-aliasing artifacts that I’m seeing. They look like they *might* support some sort of sub-pixel smoothing technology on an LCD display. But I’m on a CRT so it just sucks. I’m actually hoping that I can look at this entry on my iBook’s screen and see a difference in the image above.
Maybe there’s a setting somewhere that I can re-configure. Not that OO.o is anywhere near fast enough to actually work for me on the Blue and White G3…
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01.15.04
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at 4 pm
A short list of unresolved issues:
- War in Iraq
- War in Afganistan
- Blown CIA agent cover/Karl Rove
- Osama Bin Laden
- Cheany’s Haliburton ties
- Rice’s Oil industry ties
- Enron
- Worldcom
- other corporate fraud
- Mad Cow / Food supply safety
- Military personnel suicides
Add others through the discussion board/wiki.
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01.05.04
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at 8 pm
This and the Snowman House of Horror have always been my favorite Calvin and Hobbs cartoons.
Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn’t they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs ARE in color. It’s just the WORLD was black and white then.
Calvin: Really?
Dad: Yep. The world didn’t turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin: That’s really weird.
Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.
Calvin: But then why are old PAINTINGS in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn’t artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But… but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn’t their paints have been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else in the ’30s.
Calvin: So why didn’t old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?
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01.02.04
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at 12 pm
Panther Panther Panther!
RealBasic RealBasic RealBasic !
DV Cam DV Cam DV Cam!
USB Scanner USB Scanner USB Scanner!
Snow Snow Snow!
Happy New Year!
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01.01.04
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at 1 am
Happy New Year Everyone! Have a wonderful 2004!
Remember, regime change begins at home!
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