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Entries from July 2004

Kawai Ducks Taking Over

July 29th, 2004 · Comments Off · Uncategorical Weirdness

Anyway, we talked a lot about gadgets, blogs and Creative Commons. I got him to agree that it would make sense to put a Creative Commons license on his site so that people could use pictures of products and clips of his text to review products. I think that his stuff is PERFECT for blogs.
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The Deep, Dark Secret

July 29th, 2004 · Comments Off · Hot Off The Presses, Politics, Schmolitics

Apparently, W. isn’t conservative enough for some.
And this is a scary thought: 5 reasons Bush isn’t quiiiiite conservative enough for some people (admittely, he is more conservative than his Poppy was, thus more satisfactory to the hardline).

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(YAWN) Close Enough For Jazz

July 28th, 2004 · Comments Off · The Never-Ending Bloga

Good… GOD! There was much gnashing of teeth over center content that was playing “tag” and “hide ‘n seek” with the side columns on the 3-legged blog today.
Lots of futzing and saving of various close-but-not-quite stylesheets later, I finally tracked down the problem.
It was the italics in the blockquotes. No matter what values [...]

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Florida Is The New Florida

July 28th, 2004 · 1 Comment · Hot Off The Presses

MIAMI, July 27 - Almost all the electronic records from the first widespread use of touch-screen voting in Miami-Dade County have been lost, stoking concerns that the machines are unreliable as the presidential election draws near.
Oh, here we go again. And guess what? It wasn’t made public until a citizens’ group requested audit data for [...]

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TAR 5 Episode 4 Recaplet

July 28th, 2004 · Comments Off · Clan: McTiVo

Now this is a punishing leg. Start with 20 hours on a bus (oy), and follow it with flying all the way from South America to Russia. Then choose between being pelted with hockey pucks and downing a shot, and just when you think you can’t get any queasier, you get to choose a member [...]

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