May 2009
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April 2009
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there’s a new movie coming out discussing how urination ruins the urban landscape. name? ‘the unbearable blightness of weeing’
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Noticing the bluetooth Mighty Mouse can run on... →
the early bird gets the worm. and he can have it.
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maybe i am the harbinger of @fakeswineflu … it’s following me from mexico to the US to colombia … http://bit.ly/kpqdb
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Field notes: Bogotá
Quite excited to be in Bogotá Colombia. This city is absolutely beautiful. From my vantage point (admittedly a narrow strip from the airport to the hotel, and then a walking-distance circle around the hotel), it´s quite impressive. The streets are clean, although not antiseptic clean. Everything is super green, from the medians on the main thoroughfares (like the 11) to the local park. And to...
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TidBITS Safe Computing: Five Tips for Reading Mac... →
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Check out Norby's Photostream - interesting use of... →
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sitting in the hotel in Bogota, clothes unpacked and equipment set up at the facility. now to acclimate to 8000+ feet, without a snowboard.
sitting in redeye-flight-induced haze at Admiral’s Club in Miami, nostalgia for glory days of travel fading as i contemplate upcoming flight
sitting at Admiral’s Club in LAX, wallowing in sudden wave of odd nostalgia for the heavy travel days of the mid-90s, such as they were
>this close< to giving up on google maps - too many blank tiles
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Botnets harvesting host machines' email content?
One of the most successful approaches to spam is when the sender creates the spam using snippets of text that are unique to each message. This can make it fairly difficult to mechanically parse what is spam and what’s real email.
I noticed an interesting development recently, though. While trying to figure out what allowed a recent batch of spam through the filter, I was looking at the...
You know you’re a sedentary bast-rd when your self-winding watch … doesn’t
why don’t mail apps have different views, like a calendar view, or arbitrary user-created stacks, or a spiderweb view of related items?
realizing that I just spent four bucks on a banana, wrapped in branding and marketing as a Banana Chocolate Vivanno at starbucks
Earth Day FAIL: just filled up two V8s with 48.2 gallons total of Premium
THE_REAL_SHAQ: @oprah ur caps r on, btw →
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An Effort to Save Flint, Mich., by Shrinking It -... →
older son left school book at, uh, school. downloaded said book to kindle on iphone. son happy, problem solved. thank you, and goodnight.
Ack! Just helped rescue two puppies running loose across 6 lanes of traffic!
if you’re ‘leveraging’ twitter to ‘build sustainable social advantage and raise awareness in your target demographic’-you’re doing it wrong
right before facebook loaded the next page, saw an ad i wanted to click on; Back button gives me new ads; no way to search for an ad. hrmph.
my uninterruptible power supply at the office is none of the above
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Driving traffic through being memorable
I went to the movies today (to see the sequel to Crank, which was excellent), and before the trailers they had a long series of ‘behind the scenes’ shorts on upcoming movies, interviews with actors, and related material. It was engaging, actually, and might even draw me into the theater a bit early again next time.
At the end of the shorts, they showed a brief clip that said something...
Sitting at the Apple store, wanting to slap the smug out of some folks (while waiting for an *ahem* genius to look at Sam’s iPod).
In that no-man’s land between “will my bag be the last one off the flight?” and “is the conveyor about to shut off?”
Phew. I think I’m happy. My bag was last out.
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flashing blue lights, 10-foot-high metal fence, the tentative turns of detoured drivers trying to find their way around the security bubble
big thump thump thump of US military choppers, heavily-armed federales setting temporary street barricades, helmets and weapons everywhere
sitting on Starbucks terrace across from Obama’s hotel in Mexico City, waking up with my eeePC and a mocha, prepping for 10:00 am call
“I use to think that car culture was the problem, but now I think it’s bike...”
– Dress Codes - How to Look Like a Grown-Up While Biking to Work - NYTimes.com
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30 Funny Twitter Comics
Pretty funny stuff! But how long until people stop treating Twitter like some amorphous blob that just fell from space? Twitter replaces bumping into each other in the hallway and at the BBQ as work and friendship goes global. Pretty straightforward, really.
