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Let me go ahead and talk about the concert I went to last night while it's still fresh in my mind. I was reasonably pleased with my seat. I had a good enough view from the very back. The Paramount is a very tall theatre (in that the
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I experimented with adding a search bar to the top of the blog, but it just didn't look right... it seemed to get in the way. I figured, searching is not going to happen all that often, anyway... so I went ahead and just put up a link
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Ok, I think I've upgraded MT to 2.5. It was very easy (just copying files up to the server). I almost made the mistake of copying over all my modified templates (thereby losing all my modifications?)... anyway, everything seems to be working... Now I just need to
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I am going to see Laurie Anderson tonight at the Paramount. My options for seats where in the orchestra section far stage left or in the upper balcony (for less money) about 3 rows from the back of the theatre in the center. I haven't been to any
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some great meetings today... Lunchtime powwow to spur activity in high tech manufacturing. swung by a college fair to do some guerilla advertising for my non-profit's fair in the spring. EFF Board meeting... I narrowly escaped being nominated for an office... I accepted and then at the end
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* I sure wish I could curl up with my computer in a pair of sweatpants and just spend entire days reading people's blog (preferably during a cold, rainy day). I met Adina yesterday at the EFF Meetup, and her blog is absolutely fascinating: diverse, deep, well-written. So much
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I may as well spill the beans, then: I alluded to an announcement pertaining to me and eff-austin.. so here goes. I have been offered and graciously accepted a seat on the Board of Directors for Electronic Frontier Foundation - Austin. EFF-austin has a rich and deep history for the
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Here are two sketches from scenes in Raku.
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I'm both heavily inspired and drastically discouraged whenever I visit these sites of other work out there. Marque Cornblatt
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I just knew these had to exist... here's a blimp with webcam and telepresence capabilities: prop.org.
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I'm at the Texas Technology Summit yesterday and today and have been taking copious notes... It'll probably be quickest to scan them in and upload the images, but there are some interesting numbers and statistics about the economy in Texas... Nothing all that pretty, actually, but
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Some selected technology artists: Christian Ristow Ken Rinaldo Jason Ditmars Kazuya Kanemaru Amy Youngs (Amy has a links section that has a few dozen more artists.