Words

Essays, dispatches, newsletters, and notes on technology, creativity, and the future.

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How do you say...

"else": elss or elts? "sandwiches": sand-wich-es or sam-metch-es or sang-witch-es? "glycerin": glis-ser-in or the incredibly ignorant glis-ser-een...

microblog
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Pathogen image

I spent some time modifying Pathogen and got it to make this image. |original(pathogen.jpg) Without getting too much into it, the particular situation...

sketch
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10 cents

In a meeting today: "Java Programmers are a dime a dozen. Absolutely worthless." Gulp.

microblog
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About the webcam

Just so you know what's the deal with my officecam. It sits on top of my monitor merrily clicking away all day. Every once in a while I will go to its local...

meta
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Business Cards

So I spent an hour racking my brains last night on a redesign. Like I said before, this is more of a personal corporate identity campaign (matching business...

journal
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whisper

whis·per (whis"per) n. 1. Soft speech produced without full voice. 2. Something uttered very softly. 3. A secretly or surreptitiously expressed belief, rumor,...

microblog
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Tivo update

Well, I woke up this morning and Tivo was still upset. I actually modified my Tivo a long while ago, so I was convinced it wasn't a problem with something I...

journal
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One Technical Problem Solved

Thanks to Ethan at www.avehost.com(https://web.archive.org/web/20021207175549/http://www.avehost.com/), I'm now able to access my blog and the movable type...

meta
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More Technical Woes

My Tivo seems to be sick. I added the Turbonet mod to it so that it would use ethernet rather than telephone to update its guide data. This was necessary...

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