September 2004
11 posts
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It’s been suggested that the ex-Expos be renamed the Grays after the old Washington Negro League team (though I prefer “The Washington Monuments”). What is a gray?
The SI unit for the energy absorbed from ionizing radiation,
equal to one joule per kilogram.
Go Grays!
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just a quick plug for two great tools for managing online photos.
Flickr is a free service that has lots and lots of goodies. You can upload photos, send them in via email or cameraphone, and post them to a Flickr blog and/or have then automatically sent out to your webpage. They also have a nice community setup where you can have all of your friends’ photos collected for easy viewing. It really...
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I sent this letter to the editor of the Washington Post today:
DC Mayor Anthony A. Williams recently stated that he will
use eminent domain if necessary to clear room for a baseball
stadium. The Fifth Amendment clearly states that private
property may only be taken for public use. Building a
stadium to house a professional baseball team is not a
public use. Were the land to be used...
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Gcount and Google Notifier
Now that I’m using Gmail as my primary mail provider, I’ve gone searching for a few utilities to make it work more like a desktop client.
The two biggest gripes I have with webmail are that it doesn’t work with mailto: links and that you have to check manually to see if you have mail. I’ve found good solutions for both of these issues. At work on my PC I use Google’s own Gmail Notifier, which...
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Greedo Point Blank
Okay, so I get that Han’s a hero and Lucas didn’t want him to be killing people in cold blood, but even after the re-done scene was re-done, how could Greedo possibly miss from that range?
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In the interest of saving money I’ve decided to let my .mac account lapse when it expires next month. Please consider my Gmail account to be my primary address for the time being.
I very much prefer client email to web-based, but unless someone wants to throw some venture capital my way (I have tons of ideas) so that I can quit my job and work from home, webmail works better when moving from my...
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I sent the following letter to the editor of the Washington Post today:
Im disappointed with the Washington Post’s poor job of
proctoring today’s Live Online discussion with Star Wars
Trilogy DVD producer Van Ling. I would have liked to learn
something about how one produces a DVD from one of the best
in the business. Instead the Post repeatedly let in
complaints on...
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Reading this has gotten me really excited about seeing this. I might start playing this again to get into the mood. Any takers?
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Identity Crisis Pencils, Inks, and Colors
There’s a gag in Chasing Amy about comic book inkers. It’s funny if you know what they’re talking about. For most comic books, the artwork is drawn first by the penciller, then given to the inker to go over the work and add form and defintion to it. It’s an important process, in part just because it takes most of a month to pencil one issue so it’s hard for a penciller to ink his own work and meet...
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I’ve so far been very good about not getting new games until I beat the ones I have, but Katherine and I loved the first one so much that when Pikmin 2 came out we had to pick it up. It’s been very strange going back and forth between it and Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow.
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PGP for Apple Mail
I got around to setting up PGP on my iMac today. Email doesn’t have very much built-in security, so without a system like PGP there’s no way to know that the message you’re getting from someone is actually from who it’s supposed to be from and says what it’s supposed to say. Here’s how to set it up to work with Mail:
Download the latest version of GNU Privacy Guard for your version of MacOS.
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