Favorite Web Comics- AppleGeeks: Issue 574 | The Part July 30, 2010
- Dreamland Chronicles: Page 1138… July 30, 2010
- Girl Genius: Girl Genius for Friday, July 30, 2010 July 30, 2010
- Megatokyo: Comic [1278] "what i hate about you" July 30, 2010
- Order of the Stick: 738: Pooling Resources
- Penny Arcade: Comic: Blood And Oil, Part Three July 30, 2010
- Penny Arcade: News: Blood And Oil, Part Three July 30, 2010
- Penny Arcade: News: P To The A To The T And Also V July 30, 2010
- Real Life Comics: strip for July / 30 / 2010 July 30, 2010
- XKCD: University Website July 30, 2010
Now Reading
Planned books:
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Current books:
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What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life by James Hollis
Recent books:
- Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Harvest Book) by C.G. Jung
- Buddhism without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor
- The Histories by Herodotus
- A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire by Amy Butler Greenfield
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Category Archives: Technology
Another Visit to SL7B
I went back again last night and visited some more of the installations (there are really too many things there to see in the span of one evening.)
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SL7B
This week is the seventh anniversary of the Second Life virtual world. To mark this anniversary, they are holding a seventh “birthday” party (SL7B) with a large collection of exhibits created by many of the Second Life “residents,” as they … Continue reading
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Fun with Mashups (Part 2)
Earlier, I wrote a quick sketch to show how you can use Yahoo! Pipes to build a new RSS feed summarizing recent activity on some favorite websites (in this case, web comics). That is all very well, but how do … Continue reading
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Fun with Mashups (Part 1)
I haven’t been blogging much about technology stuff, but lately I’ve been playing with some neat new technology that I think is worth writing about. There are a couple of pieces involved, so I’ll break this up over a couple … Continue reading
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Holy Spam, Batman…
Ok. So, I haven’t posted in a long, long time. But I saw this message when I checked out the administrative interface on WordPress: [Missing Picture] Akismet, by the way, is the WordPress plug-in I use to catch and throw … Continue reading
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A Blast from the Past
The Register just posted an article on the old Epson HX-20. I don’t know if you remember these things, but I sure do. I wanted one of those things so badly when I was a kid: very portable, a full … Continue reading
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My So-called Second Life
Recently, I’ve started playing around with a technology called Second Life. For those of you who have not heard of it (I hadn’t until last year sometime), it’s a virtual reality program that connects you to a mess of servers … Continue reading
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Free Software Goodies
It’s been a while since I posted last, and that’s mainly because I haven’t been doing anything interesting. I have been playing around with a couple of software packages which might be of interest. First, a little while ago, Microsoft … Continue reading
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A First Guide to PostScript
After ten years, IU has decided it’s had enough of supporting my alumni account. Since this account is the one that owns the First Guide to PostScript I wrote back in grad school, I will no longer be able to … Continue reading
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Busy Weekend…
I got back on the bike this weekend, and went riding along Cañada Road with Erik and Susan (see the path using Google Earth). It’s a short ride (<8 miles unless you start in Woodside), but it’s really pretty. They … Continue reading
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