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Archive for April, 2005

Pre-Filled RSS Feeds Slowing RSS Adoption?

Usually the pre-filled RSS feeds that come with news readers are the exact thing you’re trying to get away from.

OS X Software That I Like

This started off as a comment about TextMate’s somewhat nebulous features but I figured I needed to write about some of the software I like to use on the Mac.

Satellite Photo of the Playa

Ok, I know I already posted about a Google satellite image but, this is pretty cool too. Check out the playa on satellite. Must be within a month before or after burningman , center camp is there and there’s some stuff going on by where the man would be. Too bad it’s not during the [...]

Me as a South Park Character

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I showed my friend Bryan a South Park character I made on this site so he made one of me.

Benefits of Taking Exstacy Studied in Cancer Patients

The much-maligned drug may ease the anxieties of the terminally ill.

Google Maps Satellite Image of Castro Street Fair?

A festival in my neighborhood on google satellite photo

G.O.P. Consultant’s Gay Wedding

WASHINGTON, April 8 - Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts.

“I believe that visitation [...]

Ruby is fun

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I was thinking about the productivity of the hours I spent figuring out things in Ruby.

Block ads by redirecting their domains to localhost

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This is a pretty neat hack. Block ads regardless which browser you’re using by redirecting their domains to your local computer.

Mike’s Ad Blocking Hosts File

Since my mac has a local web server running, I got error messages instead of ads. So I also added a line to my mac’s local apache config file so [...]

“I want my burger,” call 911

this 911 call is pretty unbelievable. Confirming my suspicions that there are stupid, self-absorbed people in this world.

This site gets a new look

( Me )

Introducing the new layout for my blog as it becomes slightly more professional.

Sending HTML Emails from the command line

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One common problem with sending HTML emails is finding something to do the actual sending with. In this article I talk about one way to get around that using sendmail.

Firefox renders colors in .png differently than .gif

I just noticed that Firefox renders colors in .png differently than those in .gif.

Conyers Challenges Congress to Fix Broken Election System

That interview with Gore Vidal got me looking around a bit for details on the Ohio election. I ran into Rep. Conyers press release about it. Here’s some excerpts.