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Apple peel

I have been thinking of getting a new computer. My two Powerbooks are struggling with the software I want to run–particularly Adobe’s Lightroom and PhotoShop CS2. The software is supposed to be run on a 1GHz CPU, and mine is only 800MHz. It does run, albeit slowly and rather frustratingly. They’re lovely applications, but Adobe […]

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Less than Agile

I’ve been pretty tired the last few days, and I have a lot of work to do–on both the project and book. As such, I won’t be writing as much for the next couple of weeks. I do have the post on agile programming I promised to Stavros the frugal chicken, and maybe a few […]

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I’ll never quit blogging

I love April Fool’s Day. It’s the only day of the year when we can all be Web 2.0 entrepreneurs. There’s all sorts of people moving to different companies, but the only one that counts is that Head Lemur is moving to Microsoft. As for me, well, I’m not supposed to mention this yet, but Six […]

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Music to draw by

The muse has finally settled kindly on me, and I believe I may be able to meet deadlines this Monday — not just one, but two. In order to do so, though, I may have to write all night–but that’s not a bad way to spend a night. In the meantime, time to move away […]

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Two real stories to end the week

A quirky redefinition of the term, RIP. Made me smile. And from Sheila Lennon, a lovely tale in time for St. Paddy’s: A Danny Boy for my Father. Danny Boy was one of my Dad’s favorite songs, too. He was, he would say, descended from lace-curtain Irish–a tale told me with a straight face, but smile writ large […]