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Twitter Quote: Email Sig Sighting

Even after all these years, and all the spam and phlaff that arrives in my inbox, when i am reading mail form colleagues, I do take note of what is hanging in their sig (signature). In some sense, you might argue it is a very low tech ‘avatar’, it is some array of text we […]

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I Hear Voices

The voices are not real but they do have some good ideas posted 11 Mar ’07, 3.10pm MDT PST on flickr Latest sign no the Beaverton-Hillsdale highway. The sign is in Portland, Oregon. (On the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, between Portland and Beaverton). I have no affiliation – I just drive or ride the bus past the […]

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Tire Shop Philosophy

Horrible Example posted 15 Feb ’05, 8.49am MST PST on flickr "Either be a good example or a horrible warning" Latest sign on the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway. This is hard to photograph from the bus -it has to stop at a light behind some cars to be in the right place. The sign is in Portland, […]

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Battery Mysteries

I dont think much about the battery in my laptop– til it craps out on me. I’ve known that the one on my 2006 MacBookPro might be getting creaky. During the last trip to Boston, it went form about a 30% reading immediately to 0 (and went black) a few times. I knew it was […]

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Roll Your Own Flickr Notes

For a long time I have continually raved about what I think is a severely under-used Cool Flickr Feature- the ability to add notes, or hypertext regions to images. For many long, winter nights, I have wondered.. Why Dont Teachers Jump All Over Such a Thing?, but alas, gave up on hearing an answer from […]

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You Had Me at Dog

I could barely ignore an appearance of a new site called Inside a Dog, a new site from Victoria, Australia aimed at promoting youth reading and interesting in writing and those lovely old fashioned portable content devices called “books”. But what a clever web theme (yes, I am biased)- that a program all the way […]