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Rebuilding
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Author: ryanvis
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
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Author: ryanvis
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 […]
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That Feeling Again
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Author: ryanvis
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…
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Author: ryanvis
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 […]
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Quick question
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Author: ryanvis
What exactly do you have to eat to have this dream? You’re trapped in a Mexican town (which you know because there are lots of Mexican people around) but it’s surrounded by corn. You also know that you have to kill a famous 40’s villian 8 times in different settings, since he has 8 lives, […]
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UM Starts Own Record Label
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Author: ryanvis
It’s called Block M Records; mostly classical, and a little sparse right now. Something to watch, though.
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Bloglines down today
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Author: ryanvis
Bloglines, my RSS aggregator of choice, will be going down today for around 6 hours (if all goes well) for a data center upgrade. The linked news post basically says that they are a victim of their own success, which is great news for them as a company. However, I have to wonder why they […]
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Free-for-all gets planes load faster
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Author: ryanvis
While it seems backwards, I’ve seen this work. On a recent trip, we flew a budget airline and they were turning planes over (deplaning and boarding the entire plane) in under 30 minutes, something I’ve never had on Northwest. Link [via digg]
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Bloglines vs Newsgator
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Author: ryanvis
I have been a long time Bloglines user. I used to be a heavy RSS Bandit user. When the latest version of RSS Bandit came out, I saw they had added support to synch with Newsgator, a competitor to Bloglines. Since I don’t really have any loyalty to Bloglines and I really liked using RSS […]
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Firefox 1.5 today
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Author: ryanvis
Get ready to update. Firefox 1.5 also includes new support for Web standards, adding support for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), JavaScript 1.6 and new versions of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Link