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Monthly Archives: March 2004

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Wednesday, March 10, 2004

(as written for the Loomis Chaffee alumni newsletter)
Yours truly wasted about a year during 2002-2003 as a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania. And then something happened that he doesn’t remember, and he woke up one morning and was a magazine editor in Washington, DC. He wasn’t sure that he knew how to be [...]

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Yow

Wednesday, March 10, 2004

The other day, I passed by this girl on the street, who, triggered a massive recognizance, to the point that I had to stop and think about of whom she reminded me. It was this smart, nervous, mousy girl I knew in high school. She came into Loomis with a completely bad attitude: she was [...]

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Si, si

Tuesday, March 9, 2004

Today was a slow day at work. I feel restless and dazed when I haven’t anything pressing to do. I accomplish almost nothing.
Having a lot of work to do is a good thing. Even better is if it’s pressing. Strict deadlines are the best. Valuable threats are ecstacy, even.
But today there was none of that, [...]

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“Is that a lot?”

Sunday, March 7, 2004

I just walked Tim through removing spyware from his prof.’s computer using Adaware. Apparently, the spyware made it impossible for him to navigate to the Lavasoft (maker of Adaware) site, but fortunately he was able to download the installer from download.com.
It came as little surprise when Adware crashed the first time though. If I [...]

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“Just Call Me”

Sunday, March 7, 2004

Why is it that when things seem to be going better than they have been for some time, the person with whom things are going better than before loses all interest in actually talking?
Also:
Spring seems to have come early enough this year that everyone around the park at Dupont Circle still needs to lose about [...]

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One Thing that I Dislike about the iPod

Sunday, March 7, 2004

It doesn’t update my “Now-Playing” list (now on the right side of my weblog).
Normally, I have an invisible Applescript thing that queries iTunes every 10 seconds and, if the song has changed, it records the song name, artist, album, and my rating. It forms that information into an XML-RPC call (redundant, I know) to the [...]

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Two More Things

Saturday, March 6, 2004

1) Looking over the last post, I can see that my weblog really is unreadable. I should fix this… Fixed! This is why CSS, even for awful, table-based designs like this one, is still a good idea!
2) One complaint about Firefox: why not put close-tab buttons right on the tabs instead of way over on [...]

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Browser Dance

Saturday, March 6, 2004

I’m writing this having switched back to Firefox (formerly Firebird, formerly Phoenix), which was preceded, for me, by Safari, and that by Camino (formerly Chimera), and that by Mac Internet Explorer 5.something (from 1999 until late 2001, it was probably the best browser on any platform, with good CSS performance and the fast Tasman renderer), [...]

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