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{ Monthly Archives } March 2008

Balisage Deadlines

Bal­is­age is this new XML++1 geek­fest, put on by some of the people who used to put on the Extreme Markup con­fer­ence, which is aimed to get the brain cells run­ning again after sum­mer. It’s being held in Mon­tréal in the middle of August, which means all those street-level res­taur­ants, and brush­ing up on French […]

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2008 03 28 Conference
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Personal NV Musings

I just got back from the North­ern­Voice organ­iz­ing committee’s post-conference lunch. The con­fer­ence motto is per­sonal blog­ging and social media but lots of people who attend or speak are inter­ested in the pro­fes­sional or cor­por­ate aspect as well. As a res­ult, one of the per­en­nial top­ics we talk about is who the con­fer­ence is for, […]

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2008 03 13 Conference
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Asus eee: first looks

I got an Asus to take on hol­i­day (vaca­tion) with me, and to play around with. They’re cute and small and way easier to lug around than a laptop. With the small screen doing ser­i­ous work is more dif­fi­cult (a plus when you’re not meant to be work­ing) but I can still check email and […]

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2008 03 11 Technology Comments (0)

Minor WordPress Plugin Problems

I real­ized while installing the latest Word­Press upgrade, that I hadn’t yet blogged some solu­tions to issues I had some time ago. These are all issues related to plu­gins. Prob­lem 1: I installed the Organ­izer plu­gin to help organ­ise my pic­tures. It wouldn’t show them, which some­what defeats the pur­pose of an organ­izer. Look­ing at […]

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2008 03 10 WordPress Comments (0)

Sunday Amusement

Even if you don’t have kids, you might find the sight of some out­fits people dress their kids up in to be amus­ing — 8 Good Examples Of What Hap­pens When Geeks Have Chil­dren (found in the Ravelry geekcraft forum).

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2008 03 09 Family
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Middle East Complexities

Tim poin­ted at a piece list­ing immoral solu­tions for Gaza, a piece which nicely proves that find­ing a good solu­tion is impossible, and find­ing the best of the bad solu­tions often seems equally impossible. I’m sure I’m not the only per­son flab­ber­gas­ted by the whole Israel/Lebanon/Palestine mess, and I’ve read a few books try­ing to […]

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