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Month: October 2006

  • Theme editing

    The current theme, Gray gets Green by Fred Banuelos, started with this image up top, which is gorgeous: I hope it’s not too plagiarist to steal the idea and colors and rebuild it with my own imagery. I decided a Chicago skyline would give it a nice local touch, and this resulted: I think it…

  • Chef Jeff

    I’ve been cooking like never before during the year 2006. That’s a relative measurement, but I’ve also gone out for awesome brunch/breakfast more than any other year to date. Today I made that expense irrelevant by cooking up this masterpiece: Breakfast potatoes have always been one of my favorite dishes, due to growing up eating…

  • Learn to Program (finally!)

    Most of the nerds I hang around with are obsessed with computers but can’t code at all past a webpage. Yesterday I found a free PDF at CocoaLab about programing for OS X that doesn’t assume you already know how to program. They’ve also started up a Wiki on the topic.

  • At least someone is paying attention

    It’s hard to beat John Gruber’s opening clause here: I’ve been up to my ears in jackassery lately, -> but it’s nice to see someone in the media effectively acting like a watchdog these days. It’s not just Gruber, either. Lately there seems to be a lot of independent but popular writers in the Mac…

  • Zunerific

    I can’t decide which is better: I also think that this zune logo is almost cool, but it doesn’t make sense in three dimensional space. What are those vertical lines right down the center? Are they supposed to be diagonal cross bars on the top and bottom horizontal planes, or are they vertical supports on…

  • Hello world!

    I got WordPress going apparently, so I now have a respectable blogging engine. Now then for something to say …