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{ Yearly Archives } 2005

U.S. coins are getting lame, doo-daa, doo-daa

When I was a kid, I collected coins. For what it’s worth, I still have all of them, including a number of foreign coins from maybe 30 countries that my dad and uncle gave to me. But I collected all of the U.S. ones myself. I used to marvel at the designs [...]

Supreme Court

Tim weighs in on the Supreme Court nomination.

Firefox/open source FUD

FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. Often used in connection with open source projects to scare people into sticking with known, but sometimes unsafe, proprietary software. Not always intentional, unless you count unnecessary sensationalism in tech journalism.
Background: the Spread Firefox website is built on Drupal which is the same software that [...]

T-Minus 12 days and counting…

Funny thing about getting free boxes for moving from the local liquor store — everything you own gets packed up in them and when you show up at your new place, you definitely set the tone when you are seen carting in over 50 boxes of alcoholic beverages.
At least that’s how I imagine [...]

Mac OS X 10.4.2 Update and New Airport Options

Finally, a nice wireless network manager in OS X! Airport has always been good (and sure enough better than anything on Windows or Linux) but there was never a way to reset a known network so that you won’t connect to it in the future. This was particularly difficult if you joined someone’s [...]

7/11

Damn it! And I told myself I wouldn’t miss it again this year, but I did.
Free 7.11oz Slurpee at 7-11 Today
I always miss the good stuff. Except for the time I got a kiddie pool for a dime.

Dinosaurs!

Is it me or was this menu item’s result in NetNewsWire less than satisfying?

C’mon, man, I want some triceratops!

Transitions

They say if you play a Microsoft CD backwards, you hear satanic messages.
Thats nothing, because if you play it forwards, it installs Windows.
Nice little gem.
Anyway, I’m very much looking forward to moving at the end of this month. Tonight we’re lining up the trailer, a storage unit, and a truck reservation. [...]

Busy lately

I feel like Michelle and I tend to do a lot on the weekends… which is probably evened out by the fact that I do very little during the week besides work, drive, and play Warcraft. Two weeks ago was Walk the World and my mom was in town, last weekend we went canoeing [...]

Walk the World

Sunday I partipated in a most extraordinary event. We’ve been gearing up for months for an event run by the United Nations World Food Programme called Fight Hunger: Walk the World. The goal this year was to move from a closed event to an open event and get previously non-affilated people to participate [...]