Use aliases in .mac

Cult of Mac reported on a new feature of .mac, to use aliases. Now I just might start using my .mac account. I can do this with geeksrus, but why pollute my namespace?

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Screenshots from 23″ aluminum apple display

I went to the Apple store and took some screen shots to show just how much more space I’ll have with this monitor 🙂 Squeak laid out nicely 17″ laid on top of 23″

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The Mirra has landed

My Mirra has arrived 🙂 It has everything but the forward tilt, which I did not realize was on option (and not even available from Design Within Reach) but the chair is still awesome 🙂 Mirra One Mirra Two

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HTML 4.01 Validated!

My index page is finally HTML 4.01 validated. I have some older entries that have bad URLs, but I’ll weed those out. As a result, look for a new CopyURL applescript that encodes ampersands properly 🙂

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Phone Valet Messaging Center

Well with all of the crappy customer service I have had this week, I ordered an upgrade to my phone valet which will let me record my calls. I don’t need the voice mail system, I don’t think, but I will start recording my calls and logging employee numbers from now on, just to get… Continue reading Phone Valet Messaging Center

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Bad shipping karma week

After the Office Depot mess, Fed Ex, which had an estimated shipping date of today, stood me up. Well, it could come up until 9. Wait, but they didn’t have the data that it arrived in portland at 4:09pm until hmm 5pm. So the people all say long saying it was “in route” even tho… Continue reading Bad shipping karma week

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OSCON Report

OMUG posted my report about my morning at OSCON this week.

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Office Dorko

I want a larger chair mat for my work area, as I move between three machines and the one i got at office depot, while nice, is too small. Nobody carries larger mats that I can find, so I ordered one from Office Depot online. It ships and the site says it will be delivered… Continue reading Office Dorko

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More dental bills

Well the last cavity is filled and I have a brand spanking new gold crown, or they say I do. It is way back there 🙂 Ugh, I hope this is the last of the drilling for this year!

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AdiumX

AdiumX is my new favorite chat client for the Mac. Open source, free, actively worked on, can theme the contacts list, message window and dock icons. So speaking of themes, they are all simple bundles. Inside the bundle (control click, Show Contents) is a set of images and a plist (text file of XML goodness)… Continue reading AdiumX

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Care for your CDs/DVDs

This document from NIST covers some cd/dvd basics. Like don’t use markers! The solvents actually eat through the label side and ruin the disc. You can mark on the little clear spindle area. No adhesive labels either. Ouch.

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Web site clean up with BBEdit

I decided to finally buy and upgrade to MovableType 3.0 today. That lead me into the hell of the tool I was using to manage all of my pages with templates and decided to ditch it once and for all. On a stroke of luck, I found that BBEdit supports includes, so now my entire… Continue reading Web site clean up with BBEdit

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Fantastic Use of technology

Turning video gaming into performance art, Dance, Voldo, Dance is a performance piece created with the amazing Soul Caliber video game. Creativity is the saviour of this world. The milkandcookies mirror worked best for me.

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Personal update

Went to coffee and dinner with Katie, a woman I met on craigslist. What a fascinating person. Really deep thinker, bright spirit, giving and positive. I think we’re going to make good friends. Ordered my new office chair today, a Herman Miller Mirra chair. Wow it is so comfortable. I liked it much more than… Continue reading Personal update

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Omniweb 5.0 rc1

Suddenly I am a avid fan of Omniweb I bought a version 3 license but never used it, because well OmniWeb sucked. I skipped 4 and 4.5 for the same reasons. Now with 5, they are here. 5 is behind on it’s webkit integration, which has caused a few errors, but the features are so… Continue reading Omniweb 5.0 rc1

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Finder dumbness

Mount a remote disk Sleep remote machine Control Click on icon Wait a minute while Finder spins looking for disk. Sigh. Can’t they figure this out sooner? 🙂

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