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Update: Toaster
Update! We replaced with the same model, this time in purple. They were out of red. Frankly, the toaster market is insane with technological innovations. There are models that slowly lower your toast into the chamber, any number of digital … Continue reading
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QuickTechThought: Our Red Toaster
Our pretty red toaster died this week. Sunbeam Oster. It wasn’t even three years old. I know, I know, they don’t make things like they used to. But it’s just a toaster, it’s supposed to be pretty fundamentally simple. … Continue reading
Nest Learning Thermostat
Last Friday I installed a new thermostat in the house, the first one since we moved in. Now the prior thermostat was programmable, hourly and daily you could configure it to heat and cool as you like. It made a … Continue reading
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The 300!
Chris Garcia did an amazing thing. He invited, then managed contributions from, over 300 people for the 300th issue of his Hugo Award Winning fanzine The Drink Tank. James Bacon helped, and gets his share of the credits, but Chris … Continue reading
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This Just In: Microsoft Fails to Get the Macintosh – or just good installation practices…
Just got notified that there’s a Silverlight update for the Mac. OK, I’ll update, what’s the… Wow. The instructions are so dense with unnecessary text, and eventually tell you to first uninstall any previous version, which necessitates removing half-a-dozen files … Continue reading
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The PowerPoint Team Blog…
Well, everything old is new again. Today the Microsoft PowerPoint Team Blog did me the honor of pointing out one of my posts from earlier this year, The Blur Trick, with an invitation to write more later. I had the … Continue reading
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Imported My “Space”
For a short period of time I had a small blog on Microsoft Spaces. Unfortunately Spaces will be going away. But Microsoft and WordPress worked out a deal where the archive of the old Spaces posts can be moved to … Continue reading
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The Garr Box…
To be honest, I’m having a little trouble getting to the point where I write every day. But I’m lucky, I have inspiring friends who help me get past this without even trying. Today is Garr Reynold’s turn. It’s Wednesday … Continue reading
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Why does this appeal to me so?
There’s something magic about retro tech. Continue reading
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An ending leads.
Forgive me if you’ve heard this one before: I honestly never meant to stay this long. Continue reading
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Forbidden
Friday night was the right time to go and see Forbidden Broadway, a parody review of all the current Broadway shows.
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Mary
We saw Mary Poppins. Much better than I ever hoped it would be.
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Curtains
Good seats (6th row center) for David Hyde Pierce in Curtains. Everyone enjoyed the show!
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Wireless
Movie. Sounds more exciting than it actually is. Just noticed that MSN Spaces added support for video since the last time I used it. Wanted to see how it worked.
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Spider-Man
Looks like we got here a bit too early for the celebration…
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Subway
We love the subway. We can totally understand why so many people sleep here.
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Chinatown
Spent the morning shopping in Chinatown. If I had a dollar for every time someone whispered "want to buy a purse" or "want nice watch" I’d have around $214 dollars. Thanks, but I already have three broken "Rolex" at home.
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