Monthly Archives: May 2006

What to get, what to get…

Posted on May 16, 2006 by Joe

It’s out – the macbook replacement for the iBooks. And I’m leaning pretty heavily towards one of those guys. It’s really a question to me of do I want the additional video power/screen. I currently pretty much live at 1024×768, … Continue reading →

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Staring at the blob

Posted on May 16, 2006 by Joe

Today is one of those days where I’m digging into a sticky, pervasive problem. It has its little tendrils everywhere, and it is the kind of problem where you just have to get up, stomp around the room a bit, … Continue reading →

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fiddling with Ads

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Joe

No, I’m not going Ad sponsored for this blog – I’m just fiddling with Google’s advertising mechanism to see what it’s all about. I don’t think I even have a significant enough readership to drive anything more than a few … Continue reading →

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dot and graphViz

Posted on May 15, 2006 by Joe

I spent some of today playing around with generating “dot” files for use in Graphviz. It was mutually amusing, frustrating, and ultimately enlightening. Graphviz is a bit of an open-source standard for laying out and displaying directed and non-directed graphs, … Continue reading →

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Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte

Posted on May 14, 2006 by Joe

I’ve been dancing around this guys work for a couple of years now – it gets cited, I take a look, and then I go “eh…” and move on. Not today. In my usual whim-like fashion, I picked up a … Continue reading →

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‘Language Action Perspective’

Posted on May 14, 2006 by Joe

“Two Decades of the Language-Action Perspective” is the title of this month’s Communcations of the ACM. Quite a few of these issues have been a “glance here” and “hmm, ok” there. This one actually caught my attention. Now I actually … Continue reading →

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full sun and a laptop screen

Posted on May 13, 2006 by Joe

There are days (and this is one) that I really wish I could view my laptop screen in the full sun. It’s nice outside, ya know? And I’d like to lounge around on the patio and do a little surfing … Continue reading →

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back in seattle

Posted on May 11, 2006 by Joe

I’m back in Seattle today, and I’m just wiped out. I had a good trip, but for some reason I’m just exhausted today. I’m poking and proding at my to-do list, and even making progress – but I’m not 100% … Continue reading →

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Los Angeles smells bad…

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Joe

I stepped off the plane into Burbank last night, and my first thought was “LA smells bad”. The smog/cloud cover was really low last night and there is a continued haze today. It is making everything sort of warm, slightly … Continue reading →

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there go the backups…

Posted on May 7, 2006 by Joe

Lost a hard drive today – the one I keep the backups on. Whoops. Damn. Well, so there goes a few gig for now – I’ve spent part of the afternoon setting up and making another set of backups so … Continue reading →

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