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Is this thing on?

Comments   Comments Off on Is this thing on?   Date Arrow  November 1, 2007 at 11:08am   User  by joel

Right. A few trips to other countries, one to bring home two beautiful kids, and a house move later, and you start to wonder if there’s time to catch up on everything. Right now, no. But in the meantime, I’ll leave you with a couple of interesting reads by Paul Graham. The Word “Hacker” Good […]

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Kudos

Comments   Comments Off on Kudos   Date Arrow  April 24, 2007 at 10:36am   User  by joel

In the “thanks for a job well done” category… Snipshot Snipshot is a website that will let you upload a picture and do a few basic photo-editing tasks (like resize, crop, etc.) right in your browser, with quick multi-step undo, and save the results back to your computer. They provide a sample image you can […]

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Penguins in the Pastor’s Study

Comments   Comments Off on Penguins in the Pastor’s Study   Date Arrow  October 12, 2006 at 1:56pm   User  by joel

Just came across an interesting article over at Linux for Christians about the potential place for Linux and open source software in general for churches. Worth a read, especially if you’re in a new/growing church or have anything to do with your church’s tech policy.

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Whiplash

Comments   Comments Off on Whiplash   Date Arrow  October 11, 2006 at 7:43am   User  by joel

So I feel like the last two weeks have been an interesting intermix (collision?) between my knowledge and experience in Linux and Windows, or more generally Microsoft-based tech. I work on various projects at work based in Microsoft tech, but my strong preference for base operating system and general work environment is Linux. As such, […]

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The Aardvark’s out of the bag

Comments   3   Date Arrow  July 11, 2005 at 12:16pm   User  by joel

Spolsky gives the pitch. Basically remote-screen-access customer support, super-easy, through any firewall, over any connection. Sounds pretty slick. I know I have family I might use this with, and I can think of several scenarios at work where this might come in handy.

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Project Aardvark

Comments   Comments Off on Project Aardvark   Date Arrow  June 13, 2005 at 5:17pm   User  by joel

Lately I’ve been casually following Project Aardvark, the summer-intern-project brainchild of Joel Spolsky. It’s to be open source (GPL, I believe), but they haven’t yet said what exactly it is they’re building, and there’s been all kinds of speculation on that particular point. The last few posts on PA’s site really have me wondering…there’s mention […]

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Apple + Intel = ?

Comments   Comments Off on Apple + Intel = ?   Date Arrow  June 10, 2005 at 10:04am   User  by joel

A-post-a-month is just wrong, and I apologize. So much I want to say about random things, as always, and/but life is too crazy, as always, so for now I’ll just drop this random note and hopefully follow up on other stuff later. Came across this writeup by Bob Cringely on Apple’s recently announced plan to […]

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Touch-Screen Voting

Comments   Comments Off on Touch-Screen Voting   Date Arrow  November 15, 2004 at 9:38am   User  by joel

I haven’t posted much about this issue yet, but touch-screen voting is something that concerns me deeply. Much has been said in various media and such about the issue, but I recently came across a very good post by Bruce Schneier, a well-regarded expert in the areas of cryptography and computer security, so I thought […]

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Firefox 1.0 Released

Comments   2   Date Arrow  November 9, 2004 at 1:02pm   User  by joel

Firefox, the relatively new browser from the Mozilla project, has reached its 1.0 release. Congratulations and many thanks to those involved. This is really a great piece of software, and it’s evident by the amount of attention it’s gotten in the press as well as the fact that mozilla.org’s web and ftp servers and mirrors […]

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Stay Tuned

Comments   Comments Off on Stay Tuned   Date Arrow  November 4, 2004 at 10:58pm   User  by joel

I think I’m about ready to move us to a new hosting outfit, which will mean a new blogging package, which will mean a little time to settle in and get comfortable. Should be interesting; hope it doesn’t hurt too much :P. Anyway, changes are a’comin, so stay tuned…

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