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Eating My Own Dog Food
For a while I’ve been advising people who need simple web sites to use Wordpress. Not just people who want to blog, but people who need a very simple site wi...
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal
It takes a little more care though, and takes longer to cook. Steel-cut oatmeal Rolled oats The recipe is a straightforward translation ...
Whenever I Go Away, I Want to Start Anew…
There’s a thrill for me in the initial exploration of an idea, the initial design of a piece of software or web site, and in learning how to use new tools or...
Omnious Sounding
Yahoo seems to have changed the layout of Yahoo Movies recently. I was looking at what was playing locally and saw this: It sounds ominous. If I don’t...
Fixing Perl after MacOS X Security Update 2009-001
Apple's first security update of 2009 for MacOS X may solve some security issues in the OS but it also seriously breaks Perl by installing old versions of so...
In the Category of “Just No”
1 Do you ever turn on the television and think "Oh my, why hasn't Fox TV adapted Ab Fab into a US sitcom? ... Unfortunately, it appears that Fox never ...
Battlestar Galactica: Both Back and Ending
The new episode will apparently run 3.5 minutes long, so set make sure your DVRs are catching that because I suspect you’ll be very unhappy about missing the...
Doomed
Fox News is the most trusted TV news source, with 39.3% of respondents to an IFC survey saying they trusted it most. [From Poll: Interne...
So You’re Having a Benefit Event…
So - the day of the event - you get a call asking what restaurants will be there. … The caller mentions to you that he tried to email quite a while ago but ...
Free Ice Cream on Election Day
Back to the important things: Ben & Jerry’s is giving away free cones from 5PM to 8PM today (election day). http://www.benjerry.com/features/i_voted/
Futurama: Bender’s Game
1 "Futurama" unfortunately never got the love that "The Simpsons" gets, but I'm still grateful for the fact that Fox gave the show another chance in the fo...