My new Spring outfit

This is totally my new Spring outfit, thank you Lord and Taylor!

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iPhone: it’s all about the apps

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Warmer is better

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Earlier….

When I left the aptartment this morning I noticed some spring flowers stretching out.

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Stormy weather

10hrs work, 40oz coffee, zero food…. Walk outside, and this storm front was moving through. Snowed briefly. It’s Spring people!

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We need mo’ cheddah fo’ gunboats

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That’s not how I spell “decor”

Perhaps it’s a witty redundant pun, on ‘more’ -> ‘decore,’ but I think the sign deserves a red squiggly under the last word in the sub-hed

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That’s one well-read cat

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Sign of the times

Either we’re getting greener, or it’s back to WWII recycling drives:

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Explaining Twitter (or trying to, at least)

Every few weeks at work we have an editor’s brown-bag lunch to share information, leads, story ideas and sometimes a technical skills-share. A while back I gave a presentation on RSS, how publishers are using it and how we might get started with it (both publish and subscribe-side).
Today I had the unenviable task of explaining [...]

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Challenging user actions can be a good thing

In most cases I would say that ok/cancel dialogs that challenge a user’s intention are anoying and unnecessary. There are time however when I’m thankful that UX designers consider challenging my actions, to wit:

Thank you Mail.app I would rather not open the one thousand eight hundred seventy six emails that I inadvertently highlighted just before [...]

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WordPress MU 2.6.3 download archive link

If you haven’t (or can’t right now) made the upgrade to MU 2.7 and are looking for a copy of the 2.6.3 download, it might take a while to find the link. Here’s a link that will pull 2.6.3 from Trac as a Zip archive:
WordPress MU 2.6.3 link

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Some iPhone picture effect apps

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All Nuts

All Nuts. Enjoy nuts every day! Roasted AND salted! Halves AND Pieces!

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Randomizing a list of 25 things using Python

I got tagged in the oh-so popular “25 Random Things” meme on Facebook. To make a point that I sometimes think in code and I don’t think its weird, I wrote the script below to randomize my list before I posted it.

import random

f = open(‘25-things.txt’)
list = f.readlines()
“”"Magnus L Hetland’s solution http://bit.ly/uN4iq”"”
result = []

for i [...]

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“There’s a danger we could lose a decade.”

Challenges to the Global Economy
MIT World Video of a February 12, 2008 lecture given by Simon Johnson and Martin Feldstein on the current global economic crisis:
If economic analysis earned ratings like movies, this two-fer would receive an X for extremely disturbing. Two of the field’s most prominent voices spare any sugar coating in their unsettling [...]

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Reading List – 2009 (February)

Title, (Author Last Name, Date of Publication) – Date Completed

The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, (Suskind 2008) – 2/7/2009
The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (Pinker 2007) – 2/22/2009
Tribes (Godin 2008) 2/23/2009
The elephant, the tiger, and the cellphone: reflections on [...]

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