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Here are some free or almost free things brewing for austinbloggers. Please publicize on your blogs, to your email buddies, etc. etc: * You can visit http://www.austinbloggers.org/blog/a/000179.html to find a link to a free pass to the tradeshow floor if you aren't
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For anyone that cares: 1. I'm going to go for three LED paintings/installations for the SxSW/EFF-A/EFF/ACTLab party and leave Approximation at home (I basically needed to gut the power supply for my LED paintings... which frankly, only look cool when it's semi-dark.
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Is SxSW-i NEXT WEEKEND! WHOA! What happened to February? Well, I'm spending the weekend shivering in my workshop and putting the finishing touches on Approximation (a kinetic sculpture) and some more mixed-media paintings (with LED pseudo-neon a la case mods). I'd like to get at least
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Hurrah... First post from my new toy.
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This is a last-minute entry (warning: lots of pictures) for Austin Blog Day, via austinbloggers.org. The topic was "What would you do with 4 spare hours in Austin." If I had four spare hours in Austin, I would fill a cooler with slushy ice and cold, crisp
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3 words: Deer in Headlights. Is THIS how online people are supposed to socialize offline, in the real world? Ahhhh.. Now I'm starting to get it. I made it to the Austin Journalers happy hour last night (despite the God-awful slippery-when-wet traffic on I-35, which made me an
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Ok, if I dont do this, now, I’ll never do it: round up of meetup last night. Oh, and has anyone else noticed the guy with the fedora and vest that has been around at every single meetup regardless of where we were? Or is that just my imagination.
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Either I just made an incredible blunder in judgement or I made a brilliant move in frugality. I just took advantage of a triple-punch rebate offer for a laptop through Best Buy… saving me about $450. That’s right… welcome to the 20th century, Dave; I finally took the plunge
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Here’s something I would rather not see in my inbox: Update: Mold Remediation We wanted to let staff know that there are no health hazards present outside the containment. The negative air machines are equipped with heap filters that constantly clean the air inside the containment, with the filters
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TiVo, I learned today, has gone to great lengths to try to disable hacks in their latest software on their Series 2 machines (no word on whether or not my hacks will stick on my Series 1…) You can’t blame them, though, for being so paranoid. It’s so
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I’ve spent the day wrangling with hosting servers consolidating my web presence (I have to wait for io.com to give me MySql access before I can finish) and trying to get something new and interesting up and running and released (a core piece of Tock)… Too bad I’
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Too early. We were too early… Link.