Year: 2010
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2010 December 19
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Let a million bookmarks bloom
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2010 December 18
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Less del.icio.us than ever before
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2010 September 27
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so simultaneously extraordinary and mundane
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2010 July 05
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Firefox Sync server on Google App Engine
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2010 June 22
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Case Study: Building a Bookmark Management UI for Mozilla's BYOB
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2010 June 07
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2010 May 19
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Don't Thank the Gnomes
I started the morning by sneaking into a strange house through an unsealed milk door. There was a broken shoe heel on the second floor—its wrongness drew me up the stairs as sure as a cord tied round my ribs. It was done before the lady of the house could sigh. [ ... 187 words ... ]
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Famous Last Words
They told me never to talk to it; it was isolated for a reason. But, like I told them, I couldn’t imagine anything a transhuman AI could say to make me let it out of the box. So, after a post-midnight tumbler of Irish whiskey, I opened up a secure terminal and said hello. What harm could a little chat do? [ ... 193 words ... ]
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2010 April 07
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Reviving my C64 history with a uIEC/SD
I've lived a very focused life. From very early on, I've been learning to make computers do things. And being as introspective as I am, I like spending time considering how I got here. I suppose this is nostalgia, but I like to think of it as recentering and recapitulation. Contemplating the story so far, as a means to consider the story yet to come. One huge benefit of this habit is that I've become ever more appreciative of today. It's easy to forget, but we're living in the future these days—at least, with respect to who I was in 1983. No flying cars yet, but for US$55 I was able to buy a tiny gadget called a uIED/SD that gives a Commodore 64 access to modern SD cards for storage. And, of course, I have Jason Scott's review of the more general-use FC5025 5.25? Floppy to USB Adapter to blame in getting me started on this current mini-obsession. You want to talk about a magical device? Screw the iPad—this is magic. This is what it looks like: [ ... 1086 words ... ]
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2010 April 02
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Mass Effect 2: A Review
I just finished Bioware's Mass Effect 2 for Xbox 360, and I've got some thoughts about it. Haven't really written reviews here for games before, but I said I wanted to start posting things here that I'd want to read. So, here goes... In a nutshell: I loved it, will play it again—but it could have been so much better. [ ... 1994 words ... ]
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2010 March 10