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Archive for December, 2005
My stamp on the Library of Congress
Just happened upon a notation on the web that the Library of Congress’s collection finding aids were available in PDF format online now. They probably have been for a while, but I had never thought to look. I did a fellowship in the Library’s Music Division in the Summer of 1993, during which [...]
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005. Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »>
Back at it
After taking sporadic vacation days for the holiday, I’m not back at the daily grind, trying to figure out how to get year-end inventory numbers to pan out in a tax-friendly way. Joy. The holiday was great. The boys got lots of good toys. I got a few good ones as well. [...]
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005. Posted in Family and Friends, Work | No Comments »>
SlimType
Thanks to Kt (Christmas gift), I’m now using Kensington SlimType keyboards on both of my desktop Macs (work and home). It’s an interesting reversal. Most people hook their laptop’s up to full size keyboards when docked, instead I’ve become so aclimated to laptop’s scissor-switch keyboards that I prefer to use them with my [...]
Wednesday, December 28th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Five Little Monkeys
Here’s a bit of GarageBand fun I did with the boys a couple of weeks ago: Five Little Monkeys. As usual, certified loop-free.
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Friday, December 16th, 2005. Posted in Music | No Comments »>
Rails 1.0
Just so I don’t feel like the only developer blog that isn’t mentioning it, Ruby on Rails went 1.0!
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
RE: Typo theme content entry: Qwerty
I’m afraid I failed to place in the Typo theme contest. Can’t say I feel too bad, the winners were far more deserving efforts than mine.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Fasterfox
Fasterfox is a performance tweaking extension for Firefox. Most importantly, it brings back the page load timer in the status bar. I missed that.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
BarCampDallas
Just stumbled on BarCampDallas, set to happen in January. I think I’ll go this, sounds like a bit of fun!
Monday, December 5th, 2005. Posted in Technology | No Comments »>
Concrete steps to protect yourself online
One area where we “geeks” in the culture are not doing a very good job lately, is in providing concrete advice to our friends and family about how to protect themselves online. Viruses, spyware and security breaches at large institutes make big news, but really the greater risks are from our own actions and [...]
Thursday, December 1st, 2005. Posted in Technology | 3 Comments »>
Weblog II for Conversant
That’s right, ladies and gentleman, the software I’ve used for this weblog for the last 10 years or so is now out of private beta! 
Nice job, Seth! Weblog II is powerful and flexible stuff!
Thursday, December 1st, 2005. Posted in Conversant | No Comments »>
