Category Archives: Technology

Outsourcing Reality

June 28, 2008 – 12:19 am

Steph and I have been thinking and conversing a lot lately about how we, as a society, are losing touch with the day-to-day reality of survival. In some ways this can be seen as progress, and in others it’s a dangerous trend. The difficult part is distinguishing which side each outsourced piece of life falls [...]

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Big Ideas (Don’t Get Any) - Radiohead from Old Electronics

June 13, 2008 – 9:25 am

I’ve debated sharing this with you all since Tim showed it to me yesterday. My mind keeps coming back to it. So at the risk of turning this entire blog into a heap of popular geek fluff with no lasting, personal value, I present one of the coolest videos I’ve seen in years. It’s a [...]

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Blog Tag Cloud

June 13, 2008 – 12:43 am

 
Wordle is a site on which you can make beautiful tag clouds to show the words used most often in any text snippet. I dumped in all the text of my entire blog (minus the comments) and I got this tag cloud:
Apparently I talk a lot about time, people, and Steph.
 

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Adium, Facebook Chat, and a Mac OS X Mystery

June 10, 2008 – 11:12 pm

Adium (my favorite chat client) just released the Adium 1.3 Beta. As implied by “beta”, it’s not quite ready for prime time yet, but I decided to give it a shot anyhow.
I noticed they’d added Facebook chat to the client, added my Facebook account, and suddenly saw all my Facebook friends who were either actively [...]

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Five Years of Blogging

May 30, 2008 – 9:20 am

This blog’s fifth anniversary recently passed. I posted my first entry here on May 28th, 2003, and it’s been an interesting ride ever since. (When I started this blog, I had no intention of ever becoming a web developer. Then I fell in love with web standards and web authoring, and now it’s my profession.)
People [...]

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Clay Shirky’s “Cognitive Surplus”

May 5, 2008 – 9:39 pm

A brilliant talk made by a brilliant man on the key changes coming in our society due to what he calls “cognitive surplus.” 

Watch Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008 on blip.tv

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Gas Station & The Flip

April 12, 2008 – 1:42 am

I got Steph a Flip video camera for Mother’s Day (yes, somewhat early) because I wanted to be sure we had something easily on hand to record all the little moments in life that don’t quite merit pulling out the HD behemoth, and many of those moments are soon arriving. Plus, now we can capture [...]

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