Monthly Archives: January 2008

Month in Review, January

How have you been? Here’s what I’ve been doing. On resolutions Um, yeah, I’ve probably eaten a couple of things that could be construed as candy. I’m getting back into the workout groove. Canon introduced a new camera (XSi), which … Continue reading

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Self-geocoding “hackery”

Due to peer pressure, I signed up to be a Django Person today. That’s me. I couldn’t believe a Simon Willison project launched without OpenID, but oh, wow, that’s already been fixed. When you sign up you geolocate yourself, with … Continue reading

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The yellow line

Have you ever noticed those yellow lines at the edges of parking lots that supposedly stop the carts from going anywhere? I’ve been wondering about these lately and how they work — whether there’s some sort of device or some … Continue reading

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A return to desktop apps?

Today NewsGator released NetNewsWire and their various RSS readers for free. This is huge and great news — I’ve used NetNewsWireLite on and off, really liked the user interface, but for whatever reason never took the plunge to purchase. I … Continue reading

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Teh interwebs, January 2008

Recently Flickr reached its 2147483647th photo, which is the limit for an unsigned integer. (Compare to when Slashdot ran out of comment IDs.) Since I am currently storing Flickr IDs as integers (even though they always told you not to), … Continue reading

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And to sum up 2007…

I was going to do some more year-end lists and maybe some charts with Google charts (may still do the latter), but the internet really has no lack of these things, so why just repeat? Anyway, I was trying to … Continue reading

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