Archive for 2005

Dec 31 2005

52 Books in 52 Weeks, 2005: a review

It seems like a long time ago that I started this meme. I was four months late (the introductory entry was published on April 1st, 2005), and worried at the time that I wouldn’t make my goal (which, if you haven’t…

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Dec 31 2005

A blast from the past

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P.Z. Meyers has to think back further than I do, but it doesn’t make this meme any less painful.

Where did you graduate from and what year?

Joliet West, 2003.

Who was your significant other?

As of senior year, it was Allison. Still is.

Was your…

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Dec 30 2005

Feature draft for Firefox 2, Opera 9

Firefox LogoFrom the Mozilla wiki comes an early draft of proposed Firefox 2 features and timeline. It seems that it’s going to focus on very general UI improvements, like bookmarking, extensions, RSS, &c. I hope v2 makes a bit more of…

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Dec 30 2005

The Search

The Search, by John Battelle The Search by John Battelle
Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover
Year: 2005
Pages: 320
See the rest of this year’s listings
What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
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I admit immediately that my desire to read this book had more to do with my curiosity about Google itself—the Mecca of technology companies,…

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Dec 30 2005

Virgin Records flogs a dead horse

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Warning: this CD might not play, well, anywhere. Tough shit.

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Dec 30 2005

Men are from Mars, women are from Match.com

Goodness knows technology is already ripe with gender issues. Why, for instance, did the percentage of women in computer science peak in 1985? Why are females still notably absent from the internet geek culture?

I’m not sure how to answer…

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Dec 30 2005

comment_count

It seems that that culprit behind my recent comment_count debacle is Spam Karma 2, which isn’t 100% compatible with Wordpress 2. Enter the compatibility plugin, which you drop in SK2’s plugin directory, and everything seems to be peachy. All of…

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Dec 30 2005

Friday Random Ten XLIV

The “Still surrounded by loot” edition.

Friday Random Ten

  1. Pain of Salvation • Thorn Clown
  2. The Tea Party • Gone
  3. Embodyment • K-9
  4. Craig Armstrong • Choral Ending
  5. Neutral Milk Hotel • Snow Song Pt. 1
  6. John Zorn • Kavana
  7. Rufus Wainwright • The Consort
  8. Paco de Lucía • Tio Sabas
  9. Ved Buens Ende • A Mask in the Mirror
  10. Oasis • Magic…

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Dec 29 2005

Oh noes! A bug!

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It appears that upgrading to Wordpress 2.0 may break the comment counter. That certainly appears to be what’s happened to me, although the behavior is certainly sporadic. Hopefully the devs will roll out a fix soon.

I’m manually fixing the problem…

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