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Icon post
A bunch of people on my friends list have been posting explanations of their icons. My temporary default. I’ll get bored of it quickly. I saw the picture from the cover of Freedom of Choice in the liner notes to their Greatest Hits which I bought recently and thought that it would make a good […]
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Random update
Yay, new icon for me! Bought their Greatest Hits the other day and wish I’d had it around years ago. I haven’t posted about me in a while, so let me summarize. February and March were rough in a million tiny little ways that added up to a lot; I had a series of (unrelated) […]
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technical communities
Halfjack‘s recent mention of Usenet in a comment to an Lj_biz post got me thinking about Usenet and LiveJournal and the points where they intersect. One of the things I’ve never really looked hard for here is technical communities. I’m not sure why; partly because I hadn’t thought of it, I suppose, and partly because […]
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GMail
For god’s sake, it’s web mail with a really big quota! I realize this would’ve been more timely a couple weeks ago when the Google GMail hype was at its peak, but people are still going on about this. Jeremy nails it in the post linked above. Didn’t we learn from Orkut?
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Summer reading
Since you’re reading this, you probably have some idea of my tastes. Recommend me some summer reading. It doesn’t have to be light or nontechnical or fiction or anything at all — just stuff that you think I would enjoy. (Even better if you tell me why you think I would enjoy it!)
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rusty anchors
Some of my recent del.icio.us bookmarks: ☞ LiveJournal’s "relayfights" community — the new adventures of the tty relay operator ☞ ieCapture — See a webpage in IE for Windows on any platform [via kottke] ☞ Okonomiyaki — Easy recipe for okonomiyaki. You must try. ☞ The Little Man That Lives In My Subwoofer ☞ Newsdesigner […]
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Mmm, full. Candice and I made shrimp and mushroom okonomiyaki for dinner tonight. It’s the first time I’ve tried it and I think I’m hooked. I had no idea it was so filling though. I couldn’t find okonomiyaki sauce anywhere here (and the staff at both of the large Asian markets here couldn’t help) so […]
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mysql replication
Brad‘s mysqlcon presentation has me thinking out some of the ways we (mis)use MySQL replication at Mitel. Most of it comes down to working on elegance — in a lot of places I think I’m doing things that work as intended, but are pretty far away from the Right Way. So now I’m trying a […]