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December 20, 2002

How do I loath Microsoft?

Let me count the ways… Klez Wins Virus of the Year Windows XP, Winamp Flaws Endanger File Swappers’ Computers Microsoft’s Patching Problem One Click Fraud: More Microsoft Scammers Likely Microsoft To Bump Apple Into Sync-hole? E-mail Viruses Double In 2002 Microsoft Flaws Could Hit Music Traders New Windows Network Worm Detected Windows XP Wi-Fi Access … More

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December 19, 2002

No news is good news.

It was a day of pretty much next to nothing new. That’s good. My dad slept at home and had a decent enough rest to sound energetic and chipper when I spoke to him this morning. I went back to work, actually enjoyed a meeting, accomplished a ton of stuff that needed to be taken … More

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December 12, 2002

All together now…

Deck us all with Boston Charlie, Walla walla, Wash., an’ Kalamazoo!Nora’s freezin’ on the trolley, Swaller dollar cauliflower alley’garoo!Don’t we know archaic barrel, Lullaby lilla boy, Louisville Lou? Trolley Molly don’t love Harold, Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!Bark us all bow-wows of folly, Polly welly cracker n’ too-da-loo! Donkey Bonny brays a carol, Antelope Cantaloup, ‘lope … More

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December 12, 2002

Zoom. Zoom. Zoom.

We launched a nifty little gizmo on the Veer site today. Something to play with. Something to click on. Something to make life easier for all you designers who have to make image purchasing decisions day after day after day. Something we like to call Image Zoom. Enjoy. By the way, it requires Flash 6, … More

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December 11, 2002

Upping my dosage.

Another Newton-related weblog has hit the bitwaves. I’ve appreciated Daniel Padilla’s nifty hardware tweaks and awfully useful Newton utilities for quite a while. Now, I can enjoy him in text form as well. Please welcome Newton Dose to the daily reading list.

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December 11, 2002

Driving a hard bargain.

When you stumble across the opportunity to purchase a genuine replacement hard drive for that dusty Macintosh Portable languishing in the corner, and the price is a quarter of what you’d pay if you sent the old, flaky hard drive in as an exchange, what would you do? You buy the darn thing and not … More

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December 10, 2002

Photo of the day.

 Neon sign in salon window. 5th Avenue Southwest, Calgary.

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December 9, 2002

An all-star celebrity domain name spectacular.

After reading this, you’ll likely think that I’m compensating for being a week behind on posting the latest available domain names by resorting to overly cute and forcibly clever candidates. Well, you’d be mostly correct on that assumption. However, you also have to admit that there is something inherently smileworthy about the availability of mattdaemon.com. … More

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December 7, 2002

Mei camera obscura.

Fresh from the in box: I’m afraid I’m going to have to ask you to cease and desistin the usage of your “Grantcam.” You see, I’m Grant… Ihave a camera, granted, it’s not a web cam, but still…obviously mine is the true Grantcam. I searched all overyour lovely little site for your date of birth, … More

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December 6, 2002

When webcams go bad.

 I found this image staring back at me from the EvoCam preview window when I came into work this morning. The camera was working, the timestamp was updating and new files were being uploaded to the server, but the images (taken yesterday) were frozen in some sort of suspended (and yet composited) animation. It’s a … More

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