October 2004
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Common Grilling Errors
"Her favorite meal was Fiesta Salad with grilled children" Ooo… that's an unfortunate typo from the Charlotte Observer. They did fix the article before it hit the web….
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How to Raise Money
So the Spread Firefox campaign to raise money for an ad in the New York Times appears to have been a raging success, with $250,000 in donations. That's impressive by any standard. Let me also say that I harbor no illusions that my meager software offerings will make…
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Find Your Own Security
"Your security is not in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands." I've been saying that for three years. It is simply not the responsibility of the government to protect us in every circumstance. There will be events that are not…
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Expand Your Voting Window
In North Carolina, we have "no excuse" early voting. Essentially it means that we have a time period (I think it's a couple weeks) prior to election day, and at any time during that time period, we can go in and vote, no questions asked. This year, somewhere…
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First Printings Redux
I think I have some more insight into the number line mystery. While browsing books at the thrift store today, it came to me quite suddenly that I had some idea about the extra numbers found on this line in some books. Not that it matters, but this…
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Plastic Bag Marketing
I don't know if anyone else notices, but at least two companies – Home Depot and Wal-Mart – established a sort of branding with their plastic shopping bags. You know, those cheap ones into which your stuff goes when you visit the checkout counter. Home Depot's have always…
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Firefox Extensions Revisited
It's safe to say that my use of Firefox as my regular browser is pretty well embedded by now. I fire up MSIE on two occasions: When Firefox doesn't work (rare, but it happens – for instance, with certain Outlook Web Access functions) and when I want to…
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Design Error or Pilot Error?
Just three years after it happened, we finally know what brought down American Airlines flight 587 in New York. Strangely enough, we've known this for three years: The tail fell off of the plane. But now, the issue is who is at fault. American says it's Airbus. Airbus…
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Bloglines Toolkit 1.5.0
I've just released an update to the Bloglines Toolkit. Mostly because a new nightly build of Firefox broke my installation to some degree, so I figured it was time to let it loose….
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Links in Firefox
The latest nightly build of Firefox adds a cool new feature. I've become somewhat addicted to tabbed browsing, despite my earlier comments, and I hate it when I click a link in an email or something and a whole new window opens up. For starters, it's slower. Beyond…