May 2004
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This weekend I went back to an old saved file, turned my character to the dark side, and beat KotOR as a bad guy. I realized that I didn’t like most of the supporting characters. HK-47 is by far my favorite. I really wish I had worked up my Repair skill so that I could have updated him.
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“You see, Lisa: instead of one bigshot controlling the media, now there’s a...”
– Homer Simpson, on Independent Media
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The web has been around long enough that newspapers’ websites should have policies regarding when to cite a company’s webpage. Generally the first mention of an entity should either be a link or be followed by one in parantheses. Articles should also have a section at the bottom containing all the links mentioned above so that people can do futher reading on their own. Under no circumstances...
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I’ve been debating back and forth with myself about whether or not to send TrackBack pings to sites I link to on eXtremities. My interpretation of TrackBack is this: it lets you read other posts inspired by the one you’re currently reading or written about a similar topic. The other interpretation is that it lets every page contain links to every page linking to it. I don’t think the second...
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.mac Webmail’s Unreliability
Dear .mac Team,
I pay $99/year for your service. For me, the most important parts of the .mac package are the wonderful email and webmail interface you’ve designed. While I love the ease of use and ability to use iSync to keep my address book mobile, I feel it is inexcusable that I see this screen an average of 2-5 times a week. I only use webmail during office hours. Such unreliability should...
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Eats, Shoots & Leaves
For my birthday my dad gave me a copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynn Truss. Some of you might never understand how great a book about punctuation can be. Here are a few excerpts for the rest of you:
A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
“Why?” asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the...
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Enhanced Rehydration
Container design must be a bizarre profession. Here’s a bottle of Gatorade I bought the other day. Note the explanatory text regarding the easy-to-grip design:
The innovative bottle design maximizes function and flow for
enhanced rehydration.
How important a priority is increasing bottle-design confidence that the Gatorade people decided to provide a diagram on every bottle?
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Why has no one ever (to my knowledge) bottled a root beer float and sold it? Sure, you couldn’t get all the floating, melting, yummy greatness of a real float, but why not a creamy root beer with a hint of vanilla already mixed in?