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March 2005 Posts

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  1. Mar 3: cloudy head problem ongoing (3)
  2. Mar 5: utterly failing at upgrading a kernel (4)
  3. Mar 6: thinking about bill neal (17)
  4. Mar 7: watching unc beat duke (3)
  5. Mar 11: chapel hill-carrboro food and drink
  6. Mar 11: Say Hello to WordPress (12)
  7. Mar 12: google makes it hard to ask questions (of people) (16)
  8. Mar 15: one laptoper among many
  9. Mar 15: stuck in an elevator with doc and dave (3)
  10. Mar 15: etech day two (4)
  11. Mar 17: etech day three (4)
  12. Mar 19: etech day four (1)
  13. Mar 20: last day in san diego (2)
  14. Mar 23: back from sunny san diego (12)
  15. Mar 24: just beautiful (4)
  16. Mar 26: on drama
  17. Mar 27: Moving from Blogger to WordPress 1.5 (32)
  18. Mar 28: the joel spolsky effect
  19. Mar 29: in the city of brotherly love (7)
  20. Mar 30: philly cheesesteaks! (5)
  21. Mar 31: pat’s vs. geno’s (25)

March 2005 Neatlinks

Tue, Mar 1

leet sweatshirt (from little gamers) (0 comments)

see it here now: chicago tribune censors a CARTOON for “present[ing] inaccurate information as fact” (0 comments)

good advice: How to use the title tag (not something i can currently change with blogger) (0 comments)

new word: sparklines (not sparkly+ness, spark+lines) (2 comments)

my photos used in the german wikipedia article for “developing country”: Entwicklungsland (under the section “Tourismus in den Entwicklungsländern”, or Tourism in the developing countries) (0 comments)

memetics of smiling: The smile that says where you’re from (3 comments)

i read this article a few weeks ago, then the url changed or something when i went looking for it, so i thought i’d link to it in case i remember why i was searching for it: R.I.P. Microsoft? (note to self: consider changing “neatlinks” to “memex“) (0 comments)

i can appreciate this tee: WW 232.9 D? (0 comments)

you know the story, now own the tshirt (0 comments)

ruby discovers the Internet Anagram Server (1 comment)

ibm embracing php: with a blog (0 comments)

more blogging ethics: The 10 Habits of Highly Annoying Bloggers (circa feb 2003) (0 comments)

cool looking storage appliance with cool-ass name: B.O.S.S. (0 comments)

Wed, Mar 2

i assume we’re talking about the same Mikhail Gorbachev? Green Cross (0 comments)

nice: Merriam-Webster providing tools for Firefox (0 comments)

excellent! apple has your revolution for sale (requires quicktime) (0 comments)

wiki of wikis: Wikicities (0 comments)

my latest post on orange politics: Good News on the Beer Front (re: popping the 6% cap on beer in north carolina) (0 comments)

these look cool: booq viper (0 comments)

Thu, Mar 3

more xmlhttprequest love: SAJAX: simple ajax toolkit for php (0 comments)

another response to my blogging “rules” Über Meta Nerds (0 comments)

updated a night of mod_rewrite with the mod_rewrite rules i wrote for my mediawiki wiki: www.editplus.info (0 comments)

Fri, Mar 4

my photos used in the wikipedia entry for Cambodia (0 comments)

NY not happy with: I ♥ NC (0 comments)

Google’s AutoLink vs. IntelliTXT (0 comments)

acronym watch: SATA (0 comments)

i love mini-itx projects: The “iGrill” (0 comments)

dude, i want one: Blue/White 20×4 LCD Display Kit (0 comments)

to read: In Praise of Slowness : How A Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed (from greenespace) (1 comment)

Sat, Mar 5

growing appreciation for “free-range”: E-Z Catch Harvester (see video on the right) (1 comment)

this is creative: Giant Steps by Michal Levy (takes a long time to load) (1 comment)

a new second cousin: Emma Elizabeth Watt (0 comments)

Sun, Mar 6

quote of the day: I’d estimate that I spend between 10% and 20% of my life in a browser, and half of that time is spent in a <TEXTAREA> like the one I’m typing in right at this moment to flesh out this post. (0 comments)

from dan gillmor: legal system disenfranchising bloggers update: support freedom of the press rights for all americans! (0 comments)

thanks: my thoughts on google (+xmlhttprequest) apparently sum up someone else’s feelings quite nicely (1 comment)

HELL YEAH HEELS (0 comments)

Mon, Mar 7

crazy news: bono (of u2) being considered to head the world bank? (0 comments)

food for thought: there are some issues that a person new to programming should be aware of before they decide to start off on the path to Ruby (and Rails) (3 comments)

newly discovered: the mozilla wiki (0 comments)

liveblogging chapel hill town council: orangepolitics.org – Live from Town Hall – gay rights edition (0 comments)

ra ra carolina lina (5 comments)

Tue, Mar 8

Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career (0 comments)

i own signs from fate (0 comments)

hehe: dinosaur blog (0 comments)

neat font: gender symbols (0 comments)

oh my god, there’s more: The Sugaku font series (1 comment)

Wed, Mar 9

the gormangate continues: More Fun with Michael Gorman (0 comments)

IRA slang: six pack (0 comments)

the gormangate continues: More Fun with Michael Gorman (0 comments)

you heard it here first, maybe: Stop DWH (0 comments)

my eyes, my eyes! A Day In The Life of Miss McDonald (check out the pictures) (2 comments)

holy cow: how to turn a dog into a purse (or something) (2 comments)

listening to: moreton neal and bill smith on the state of things (from last thanksgiving) (0 comments)

as discussed earlier tonight at the blogger meetup: The PowerBook Sudden Motion Sensor (0 comments)

Thu, Mar 10

ugh! i was playing with the CAIF file offered by haloscan for exporting comments and it turns out they currently return the comment text with all the html (hyperlinks and such) striped out. (2 comments)

cool: ted leo of ted leo and the pharmacists covering the infectious kelly clarkson hit “since u been gone” (0 comments)

i missed the wrens in concert: but there’s a documentary coming out! a good, longish promo you can watch online (requires quicktime) (0 comments)

useful wordpress hack: Limit Number Of Posts With WordPress (0 comments)

Sat, Mar 12

damn. photo of the day: Me and Malcolm (gladwell) (0 comments)

to read: What Should I Do With My Life? (circa jan 2003) (1 comment)

waxy: etech/etcon vs sxsw (0 comments)

Mon, Mar 14

at etcon: i’m in the audience (picture taken by panel member) (0 comments)

oh cool: Web of Letters (0 comments)

listening to: Donald Knuth, Founding Artist of Computer Science (on npr’s, morning edition) (0 comments)

quote of the day: Google is on its way to Redmond to battle Microsoft later this decade, while Yahoo! is going Hollywood. (0 comments)

dooode! patrick’s laptop is famous! (0 comments)

this dyson guy is onto something–with vacuums: The Ball (via Signal vs Noise) (1 comment)

mark pilgrim fires warning shot at google (in response to autolink?) (0 comments)

Tue, Mar 15

why doesn’t jeff bezos have a blog? (0 comments)

Wed, Mar 16

ha, the irony: The Internet offers a booming trade to help with this type of annoyance-fighting behavior. For example, shared passwords to free Web sites are available at www.bugmenot.com to help people avoid dealing with long registration forms. (from the new york times) (0 comments)

Thu, Mar 17

el jefe on etech (0 comments)

giggle: Put your apps into a COMA! (0 comments)

Fri, Mar 18

wow: google needs hydroelectric dams for power? (0 comments)

Sat, Mar 19

france says, we don’t want no long tail (0 comments)

Sun, Mar 20

hrm. yahoo acquires flickr (isn’t there any sense in being independent anymore?) (5 comments)

Tue, Mar 22

serendipitous discovery: in firefox, you can hold down the ctrl key to select table cells like you would in a spreadsheet (there’s no mention of it in the keyboard shortcuts document that i can tell) (0 comments)

Wed, Mar 23

apple’s getting schooled: if you don’t provide an open api, one may be provided for you (0 comments)

rotary cellphone mashup (0 comments)

nice ice storm article: Gourmet Survivalist (and nice photo!) (0 comments)

cool: Unicode Chart, 6′ x 12′ (0 comments)

wordpress hits 100,000 downloads, becomes a company: WordPress Inc. (0 comments)

Thu, Mar 24

just fyi creationistas: Charles Darwin Has A Posse (0 comments)

has anyone heard of this? Wheat (a language and environment for creating dynamic web sites) (0 comments)

oh no! Woman Eating [Wendy's] Chili Bites Into Human Finger (0 comments)

how HELLA COOL is this? Transparent Screens (0 comments)

hahaha! The Second Amendment (0 comments)

i have no idea what to expect: carolina rollergirls, sun apr 10, 6:15pm (0 comments)

this rocks: FOR SALE/BARTER: My body in Persistent Vegetative State (0 comments)

zawodny: mt vs wp (0 comments)

quote of the day: Boing Boing has not only embraced advertising, but appears to be giving it a vigorous reach-around in the process. (0 comments)

Fri, Mar 25

i’ve added a new page at the top called creative commons to collect examples of the photos i’ve taken being used by other people (0 comments)

enjoyable read: A Coder in Courierland (though when i read “courierland” in the title, i thought courier) (0 comments)

fun blog: Dreaming of Dawn (php plus fanfiction) (0 comments)

ctrl+w is currently my fav firefox shortcut (0 comments)

wtf? Are Creative Commons Licenses legal? (0 comments)

wow, this is something i’ve been thinking about a lot lately: It goes straight to the issue of distractions from long days at the office and, more fundamentally, how much of their employees’ time and concentration employers can reasonably expect to own. (0 comments)

quote of the day: “You have to ask yourself, if someone is so bored that playing solitaire is stimulating, then the problem is not with the game, it’s with the job.” (same article as below) (0 comments)

Sat, Mar 26

i wouldn’t want to wear a watch to bed, but this is cool: SLEEPTRACKER (0 comments)

wtf is going on in florida? Capitol bill aims to control leftist profs (2 comments)

hey, check it out, i made one too! (0 comments)

Mon, Mar 28

gross! Pet Pillows (4 comments)

and grosser: Apron of Flesh (0 comments)

photo of the day: caption this (0 comments)

am i going to hell for finding this totally funny? Terri Schiavo’s Blog (1 comment)

oh snap! you mean this whole shitstorm is over one feeding tube? and it’s not even feeding somebody in africa? (0 comments)

if anyone is looking for a slightly damaged laptop lcd panel: IBM ThinkPad T42 14″ 1400×1050 Resolution LCD Panel (0 comments)

headline of the day: McHip-hop name-drop (0 comments)

Tue, Mar 29

check it out: nickd liveblogging grokster v mgm at the supreme court (0 comments)

chipping away at the Hippocratic Oath: Michigan Preparing To Let Doctors Refuse To Treat Gays (0 comments)

econophysics: They found that while the income distribution among the super-wealthy – about 3 per cent of the population – does follow Pareto’s law, incomes for the remaining 97 per cent fitted a different curve – one that also describes the spread of energies of atoms in a gas. (0 comments)

as seen in skymall: Upside-Down Tomato Garden (this is SO weird–i want one) (1 comment)

Thu, Mar 31

google + firefox = search results prefetch (0 comments)

Boring Boring is the shit. (0 comments)

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