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Media

Three shorts

Yule points to three short movies utilizing stop motion created by a family run production company, Painful Productions in Vancouver Island. These short-shorts are more than worth a view, as is Yule’s writeup of the company. (Note, you can download a Mac-based player for Windows Media files.)

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Money

I can’t be the only one

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. …depressed by all the news of buying and selling this week, can I? The tech.memorandum.com web site, which is supposed to track technology related items of interest reads more like the Wallstreet Journal. There were some vague mumblings about tags coming out of Web 2.0, but most of the story from […]

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Photography Weather

Thankfully fall

Monday the temperature was in the 90’s. Today, it won’t break 60. Autumn.

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Diversity Technology

Maids, Mommies, and Mistresses

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Kathy Sierra writes on how to speak at Tech conferences. Some of her advice is good, but I disagree, and strongly, on a couple of assertions she makes. Specifically Kathy believes that if women aren’t represented well in this industry, it’s our own damn fault. One of her tips for getting […]

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Connecting

Good morning, Dave

I haven’t had much to say the last couple of days. When I read this I was concerned that anything I would say at this point would probably result in a visit from the Secret Service. I did want to point out a couple of things. The first a letter containing questions and a request for a hearing penned […]