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Critters

Squid Friday: too much squid

I love giant squid stories as much or more than most people, but I’ll pass on watching the 90 minute video of a giant squid dissection filmed in Melbourne, Australia. However, I wouldn’t want to deprive the rest of you by not mentioning the story. How am I to know how you all get your jollies. Have fun. […]

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Burningbird

More simplifications and Atom feed issues

The recent small Drupal upgrade convinced me to simplifying my site structure. It only took me about ten minutes, all total, but having to do the same thing with five sites becomes a bit of a bore. I’m creating shell scripts that will manage updates for Drupal minor releases and Drupal modules, but you still […]

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Internet

Streaming video from Amazon and Roku: a perfect match?

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Amazon is releasing an upgrade on its video delivery system today. Unlike its previous offering, you’re not limited to a Windows only box in order to stream video to your computer. You also don’t have to completely download the video in order to start watching (similar to what’s offered in iTunes […]

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Copyright Writing

Painting the Web now DRM free and on the Kindle

I had no idea that my book Painting the Web was going to be one of O’Reilly’s first batch of DRM-free eBooks. I was stunned to see it as one of the first 12 Kindle books O’Reilly has released. Painting the Web does make a nice ebook. I think the graphics are better in a […]

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Just Shelley

Apple speak

I received my Powerbook back from repair. Neither the Apple store guy nor I could decipher what was fixed on the machine. The parts list is as follows: SUBASSY, AP EXT/BT, 11CHNL,Q85 FLX CKT ASSY, BT,WIRELESS,PB15″ RETURN: Within Specifications PCBA,LIO/SOUND,PB15″ FLX CKT ASSY, SOUND,IO Q16C The returned item was the battery, as there was a […]