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A little bit of me

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A former job allowed me to play outside of my standard work responsibilities for a while, namely letting me dabble in some graphic design. I spent a little time drawing and a hell of a lot of time drafting before moving into corporate America, so I loved branching out into a little more design-oriented on […]

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Firefox tricks

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I just stumbled onto something (which I’m sure is well-known, just not by me). If you hold down Shift, then mouse over a link in Firefox, the link text and URL appear in an enlarge tooltip-ish window. Very cool accessibility tool (for visually impairments, anyway).

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Easter Egg in Foxtrot

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From Stupid Evil Bastard, we get an Easter egg in today’s Foxtrot strip. For the lazy, the binary in the strip is 01011001010011110101010101001110010001010101001001000100. Relavent tool here. I bow to Les’ geekiness on this one. And Bill Amend’s.

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Yahoo Buys Webjay

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I would have posted this regardless of the last post, but, in another move that shows Yahoo “gets it”, they have acquired Webjay, a very cool social music playlist site (and excellent source of free, legal, MP3s). Expect much gnashing of teeth in the indie/emo/overly-committed music fan crowd (ala Flickr), and then, hopefully some cool […]

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I'm a Winner!

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I needed the affirmation today. Apparently, I may have just won a contest, this one to be precise. The author of Yahoo! Hacks, Paul Bausch, asked “In what month/year did Yahoo! publicly launch their Search Web Services?”. Yahoo! dutifully searved up the answer via their Yahoo! Search blog as Feb 28, 2005. The prize is […]

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You Have Got To Be Kidding – IRS Wants to Tax Virtual Barters

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I read this article twice looking for the joke, then realized there isn’t one. …IRS advisers specializing in the arcane field of barter income recently offered the opinion that any trade of one virtual item for another–gold pieces for thick leather, uber drops for plat–could very well constitute a taxable, income-generating exchange according to the […]