Monthly Archives: December 2005

Movie weekend – Pride and Prejudice

Today we saw Pride and Prejudice – the latest remake with Keira Knightley. They did a good job with it, but I’ve got to admit that I’ve was very spoiled by the BBC’s version of it. While I liked the … Continue reading

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fear from Intel?

The article is horrifically short for coming to a conclusion, and I haven’t read enough to make my own concrete judgement, but the first thing I thought when I read the comment about the $100 MIT laptop from Intel’s Barret … Continue reading

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Narnia

It was a very long day today, and I’m completely bushed. You know, one of those days that just leaves you completely drained… Even still, I wanted to write briefly that Karen and I took in Narnia tonight, and we … Continue reading

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A little web drama

It’s always amusing, sometimes in that not-so-funny-way, to see the drama that can come out from reviews of API, technical projects, and the like. A classic case in point is Aaron Swartz’ rather nasty and overblow review of trying to … Continue reading

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Metropolitan Market, Queen Anne

My favorite market ever has lost it’s lease. I’m so incredibly bummed about this. Apparently the owners of the land where Metropolitan Market has stood for 40 years have signed over the space to QFC and a big ole’ development, … Continue reading

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Toyoda sushi

Last night I went to dinner at Toyoda Sushi with a friend, the first time I’d been there. We sat at the Sushi bar, and Sen (I’m probably mispelling his name) started serving us up a wonderful meal. I couldn’t … Continue reading

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Agile development

I think Gus has the perfect embodiment of “agile development”. Heh. I hate it when that happens too…

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Christmas Cards

Karen loves doing them, and I view them as sort of a necessary chore. Something you just “gotta do” over the holidays. Even still, the hard truth is you’ve got a much better chance getting a card from us if … Continue reading

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Toys

Since I was determined to spend the day not doing much of use, I headed over to the UVillage Apple Store to see all the toys. Although they’ve been out for a bit, I hadn’t actually played with an iPod … Continue reading

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I let a project slip by…

I was piddling around today, it being a sunday and all, and I started digging into a project I put on the “backburner” just a little bit ago. Only I realized that “just a little bit ago” was around 20 … Continue reading

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