January 2012
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“One of the challenges here is that the target audience has a severe case of...”
– By Anton van Straaten at Mon, 2012-01-02 09:14
Pretty much my experience in the technology field in a nutshell.
December 2011
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November 2011
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google theme
I really don’t like the new google themes on their various apps because they take up too much room. With Reader and Groups, the content I actually want to see consists of about 25% of the screen in the lower, right-hand part of my browser.
Reader is a giant list of articles. Let me see the giant list. I don’t need to see controls and search widgets surrounded my massive amounts of...
October 2011
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Goodbye, Steve Jobs. :(
September 2011
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west (hollywood) side story
My prediction for the West Side Story plot on Glee is that Blaine will play Tony and Kurt will play Maria. Works best if they minimize (or understate) the social justice aspects of it.
Could be that Kurt finds a way to forgive Blaine (and himself) without compromising his theater arts college chances and then gives up the part to Rachel, though I’m not sure where that leaves Mercedes.
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kill me now
Just finished season one of Glee. If I wrote down everything I would normally hate about a TV show, you’d think Glee would fit it perfectly. And it does. But I love it anyway.
I’ve intensely disliked a lot of the pop songs they sing when they first came out, or when they were first overplayed and over exposed — Journey, I’m talking about you — but the songs totally...
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“Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with...”
– From The Big Picture.
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August 2011
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“You know nothing, Jon Snow.”
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logique et cohérente
Okay, I know I’m only about a month in to my project to learn to understand spoken French and so just about anything I say is uninformed, but, hey, this is the Internet, right? And this is just my particular journey and I ain’t no scholar.
So here’s my impression:
If you ignore French orthography and just go by the spoken sounds, French grammar seems a lot simpler than it...
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demesne
I’m going to see if I can get this blog to go to main “zentrope.com” domain rather than the tumblr domain. I’ll keep it if it’s still fully integrated.
Then, to celebrate, I’m going to write a bunch of super boring software / tech posts! Maybe something about my ongoing attempt to learn to understand French.
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“I find I print less these days and share electronically a lot more. For the...”
– David Sparks, Macworld.com (via prefs)
This assumes that in 50 years we’ll still use computers based on 8-bit bytes. “Text” is universal for tech types who know about ASCII, UTF-8 and so on, but for people unaware of the technical infrastructure, Word Docs seem just as...