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Father's Day in Canada

2008-06-20T01:42:07Z

We took a quick trip across the border into Canada for Father's Day weekend.

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Door County - Memorial Day 2008

2008-05-29T04:27:32Z

Over this past weekend we went to Door County to get away. Here's what happened.

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Practicing what I preach

2007-12-02T18:36:05Z

I’ve been known to spout off “rules” such as the following: Don’t expect a tool to be any good at something it wasn’t designed to do. (That is actually one of my favorites.) In the spirit of putting my money where my mouth is, I’m moving things...

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California wine country

2007-11-12T04:44:41Z

I recommend you make a trip out there as soon as you can.

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Installing BlueCloth: Use Markdown in Ruby on the Mac

2007-10-22T05:09:14Z

If you find yourself writing text that you’ll eventually post to the web, hopefully you’ve heard of text-to-HTML translators like Textile and Markdown. These tools take plain text formatted with a very light syntax of special characters that can ...

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Displaying a search term in Textpattern

2007-10-22T03:48:24Z

I’ve been doing some work with Textpattern lately, and it’s a really nice CMS for simple web sites. It’s kind of like Ruby on Rails in that 90% of the things you’d commonly do are built in, allowing you to focus on what makes your site unique. On...

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Tech support is bad, mkay?

2007-10-10T05:21:42Z

The October 17, 2007 issue of PC Magazine asks the question: Is Tech Support Getting Worse? Maybe. Probably. Perhaps. But I don't care. And I don't think you should either. When purchasing an item, any item, please buy the product designed such...

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Knight Rider is BACK.

2007-09-29T15:33:39Z

I can't decide if this is ridiculous or completely awesome. I'm still on the fence.

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Note to the Caps Lock key: Please die in a fire

2007-09-05T12:07:54Z

The Caps Lock key is completely useless. Actually, it's worse than useless because when you accidentally enable it you then need to fix whatever you "meant" to type. Do yourself a favor and put something of value in its place. In Mac OS X, go to...

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Welcome to your new Mac.

2007-09-05T11:48:57Z

It was time…I pulled the trigger and got a new Mac. To be more specific, I purchased a refurbished MacBook Pro, one of the newer 15” models with the 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo and 2 GB of RAM. Overall, I am quite happy. Interestingly, Apple has tweaked t...

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