Archive for December, 2005

The Christmas Post

I almost neglected to put up The Christmas Post; my apologies. (And, my apologies for all the semi-colons tonight; that one was on purpose.)
Christmas was wonderfully dull. After opening our gifts at home (and after smoked salmon and capers on cream-cheese-topped crackers), we got ready to head out.
We were supposed to have the day to [...]

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Comments return

I have also turned comments back on, with moderation. If it gets too bad, I may just switch back to WordPress; I’m hearing good things.

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It’s a Jeep Thing

I am now in the league of happy surburbanites who have a) a house and b) an SUV. Tonight, we bought a 2003 Jeep Liberty. It’s the Sport edition, which is the low end, but it halved the milage on our primary vehicle and lowered the payment by almost $80 (I got shafted on my [...]

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Rebuilding

I’m rebuilding my computer as one of my Christmas break projects, a long overdue cleaning of the system. And God bless Season Days!

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Microsoft expands support for the interrobang

A follow up to a long-ago post… The coolest symbol now has extended support from Microsoft. The interrobang (a combo of the question and exclamation marks) now has characters is many of the default fonts in Windows that use Unicode (Lucinda Sans, Arial, Palatino, etc..)
If only it would come into common usage. It needs to [...]

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That Feeling Again

Do you ever watch a movie and sit there, staring at the credits, pretty sure that you missed something? And then, as you talk it over with the other people who watched it with you, you start to realize that none of them, intelligent as they are, caught that it. And then, as the conversation [...]

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Just so I get this straight…

Adam Curry edits the podcast entry which, unfortunately, he has more than a passing interest in and gets crucified.
Jimmy Wales does the same thing and we’re cool with that?
Just so I know who to vilify.
For the record, I tend to fall on the side of argument that Tycho from Penny Arcade expressed recently; there are [...]

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