Apr 01 2009
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LOVE IT! (via sabino)
Mar 30 2009
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Netbook for photos
I’ve been hearing more-and-more people talk about turning their Dell Mini 9s into Hackintoshes. We’re planning a two-week trip back East, and it occurred to me that for not too much cash, I could put together a hackintoshed Dell Mini 9 to sort and store photos along with a refurbished Airport Express for wireless surfing, email, etc.
Now that I’ve blown a couple of hours researching this, I’d better get my notes down here so I can close out the tabs and get to what I was intending to do today…
- Buy the cheapest refurbished Mini 9 the Dell Outlet has.
- Upgrade the memory to 2 GB, and the SSD to something bigger (32-64 gig).
- Buy two USB keys for the install process. (TBD: How large do they need to be?)
- Install Mac OS 10.5.
- Buy a refurbished Airport Express.
- Profit!
Any more Mini 9 tidbits I come along will be cataloged in my delicious links.
Mar 24 2009
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Books, books, books
Today I was asked by a friend to recommend one book for her to read to get her away from the TV. I found this more difficult that I would’ve thought. It’s not that I don’t read; I read plenty! My problem that I start and don’t finish…
So, I ran around the house and picked out eleven books, whittled that down to eight, and then remembered all the eBooks that I’ve read. (Most of my fiction is in eBook form so I can read them on my Palm before falling asleep without bothering my wife…) Oh, and I know some of these border on “youth books” but, well, what can I say. This is about as “grown up” as I plan on becoming. ;-)
Here’s my “one” book, depending on what you feel like, of course…
- Historical Fiction: Dogland by Will Shetterly.
- History (through comics): Maus I and Maus II by Art Spiegelman and any of the Cartoon History of the Universe books by Larry Gonick.
- Poetry: Selected Poems by Charles Olson, ed. Robert Creeley. (I grew up near where Olson lived and wrote so I don’t know if the imagery works as well for others…)
- SciFi: Hoo boy! This list could go on and on, but I’ve limited myself to two I read recently that really made me think: Darrell Bain’s A Strange Valley and its sequel, Prion Promises.
- Non-fiction: The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman and Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire by Rafe Esquith.
- Finally, the book I’ve read more than any other, yet have struggled the most to live out: Lighten Up: Survival Skills for People Under Pressure by C.W. Metcalf and Roma Felible
Happy Reading!
Mar 03 2009
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Haiku for the new iMacs
Harddrives imprisoned.
The new iMacs are still sealed.
Not for me, thank you.
Feb 23 2009
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“ HTML is about displaying information, while XML is about describing information.
— I love how pithy and precise this statement is. (from XML Primer)
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“ A common issue with the web industry is titles. My business card says “developer”, which is something like wearing a nametag at a convention that says “human.” If I had to pick a new title, I’d go for “front end developer” which is slightly more clarifying and in my opinion sums up a tad better what I’m doing, which is combining HTML, CSS, .NET or PHP, and JavaScript in a big kettle and mixing it around for hours until it resembles the designs the more talented people in the studio create. It’s like being a digital sous chef without the knife wounds and drinking habit. I work in a unique position in the studio, as I’m surrounded by people who more commonly are called “designers” or “developers” (in the back-end development sense), which means they’re much more capable of making a gorgeous website or writing code that does more with a database than play patty-cake, but they’re not so good at mixing the two.
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A Pseudo-Tutorial on Learning JavaScript
(This is one of the best descriptions of this kind of work I’ve seen.)
Feb 20 2009
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The Quest to Create Hot Air Soap Bubbles
I so want to do this with my kids…
Feb 19 2009
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Wash. burglary victim outwits thieves, steals van
Go Bellevue!
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Mister Rogers
Just one of a gazillion sources on this amazing man. I will do a project on him. I don’t know when or what it will look like, but I know that it will make me happy.
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