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Entries from March 2007

Twitters for 2007-03-28

March 28th, 2007 ·

Giving twitter another try. Why, I don’t know. #
Just busted Maple drawing on the wall. Her reaction: eat the crayon! #

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Tags: Remote

“I always say that.”

March 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Maple: in silly mock surprise voice Trees don’t eat cheese!
Daddy: That’s right! Where did you learn that? Did you read that somewhere?
Maple: AbleDee.com!
Daddy: You what?
Maple: I learned it at AbleDee.com!
Daddy: What is that?
Maple: Whenever I make something up and say something silly, and mama and Daddy ask me where I got it, [...]

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Tags: Children, The

links for 2007-03-28

March 28th, 2007 ·

Newsvine – Hacking John McCain
(tags: halfass politics hacked)

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links for 2007-03-27

March 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Air Guitar Nation
Oh hell yes!
(tags: halfass airguitar “air guitar” movie film)

Daring Fireball: The 2007 Daring Fireball Membership Drive
Ok. WTF? Gruber starts his membership drive, and the T-shirt store is offline pending “new design”. Probably suboptimal.
(tags: halfass gruber daringfireball favewebsites)

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Tags: Links

Maple Reading

March 25th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Maple Reading

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Tags: Children, The · Video

Twitters for 2007-03-24

March 24th, 2007 ·

Why is iCal such a POS? Didn’t they ever think people might want to enter events quickly/easily? #

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Tags: Remote

Sales Pitch

March 24th, 2007 ·

Has there been a huge explosion in the market for customer location awareness software recently? Within the past few months, more and more websites care about where I’m coming from. Some block me because I’m not in the US, some arbitrarily switch my interface to German language when I don’t want them to (I’m looking [...]

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Tags: Geek

links for 2007-03-23

March 23rd, 2007 ·

Lulu Blooker Blog: The 2007 Short-List
Some of my friends wrote Messages from the Lost Continent, which made the Lulu Blooker Prize short list! Congrats. More!
(tags: halfass horst mig book writing literary)

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links for 2007-03-22

March 22nd, 2007 ·

The Glory of Carniola
Austrias five star prisons (via Kottke
(tags: halfass austria prison)

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Twitters for 2007-03-21

March 21st, 2007 ·

Insomnia #
I need to figure out a better way to twitter my website #
Does my location work? ‘L:vienna, austria’ #
Trying location L:Vienna, Austria #

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Tags: Remote

links for 2007-03-21

March 21st, 2007 ·

Barr “The Song is the Single” Quicktime video
I like this—not only for the awesome L.A. scenery and the Pavement reference.
(tags: halfass songs video barr)

Lesvos:A Guide to Ouzo
The best ouzo in Greece comes from Lesvos, apparently. Neat.
(tags: greece lesbos halfass lesvos ouzo)

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Twitters for 2007-03-19

March 19th, 2007 ·

Took Monday off! Nice one. #

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Tags: Remote

links for 2007-03-16

March 16th, 2007 ·

Zuned! Austin P.D. Hauls Off Microsoft Street Spammers at SXSW
A bit if Schadenfreude for, well, me.
(tags: halfass zune microsoft busted arrested)

Mr. T Visitor Guide: The George Michael Bathroom
(tags: “los angeles” la losangeles mrt visitors tourism)

Southbank Centre > Calendar > Dan Zanes & Friends
(tags: halfass zanes danzanes london)

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Tags: Links

links for 2007-03-05

March 5th, 2007 ·

Austrian Airlines: Booking
This is the best interface I’ve seen for booking Austrian. Uses some AJAX, so be sure you’ve got a good browser.
(tags: halfass austrian booking austrianairelines air travel website resource)

WordPress › Blog » WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2
Ummm… yikes. If I were you, I’d upgrade your install.
(tags: halfass wordpress software security [...]

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Dominoses?

March 4th, 2007 ·

We were looking for something to entertain Maple with, when Halane pulled out the set of dominoes we bought during our trip to Culebra, Puerto Rico.
Maple always likes to know the singular and the plural of any new vocabulary word. So she asked.
“Is it dominoes and dominoses?”

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Tags: Children, The