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Start With The ______

flickr foto Cut on the Dotted Lines (1)available on flickr Phase 12 of our pool remodel job– half of our decking is in sad shape due to settling, so tomorrow it gets jack hammered out. Or this is yet another iteration of Levine’s Law of Presentations… "Start with the _______" A visual representation for so-called […]

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It’s Back!

flickr foto It’s Back!available on flickr There’s joy in Sun-ville! My MacBookPro has returned, outfitted with a new fan, logic board, and something else I am forgetting. And for speed, I added another 1 Gb of RAM. Let’s Rock! With all new guts… it was almost 2 weeks since I took in the MBP because […]

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Blog Funk

Not that it matters on any cosmic scale, but for what it’s likely not worth, a blog funk has settled slowly in ’round here. I’m up to my ears in various web dabblings, way behind in checking out cool new stuff from elsewhere and others, still waiting for may MacBookPro to be fixed, still waiting […]

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Storymining in Dallas

flickr foto Workshop in Dallasavailable on flickr Materials, binders and laptops, for our 3 day workshop for the NMC Marcus project. Storymining is the slick name of the 3-day workshop we (NMC) are doing in Dallas. This is part of our Marcus Project which is helping 24 art museums across the nation of Texas to […]

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Still Head Scracthing at Technorati

I still cock my head sideways, stare at Technorati, and wonder, just what the bleep does it do? Watching this blog’s ego feed, weeks went by and none of the “new” lights came up in my RSS reader. Then, some start dribbling in, but a few links are ones I had seen weeks ago, and […]

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I’ll Take the Dry Heat

flickr foto 2 p.m. monday commuteavailable on flickr downtown dallas straight ahead, obscured by fog. Ugh. Arrive in Dallas a few hours ago, and its about 106 and 90 percent humidity. I… can….. barely….. breathe….. I…. am….. swimming…. in sweat. And what a nice chatty cab drivery I had. I was almost at the hotel […]

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Bad Aftertaste At Apple Store

I had a bad feeling about the loud clickity fan noises coming from my MacBookPro. With the heat this laptops put out, loosing its cooling mechanism would be big bad karma for my work machine. Since the laptop was still under warranty, I trundled off to the Apple Store in Phoenix, knowing it would likely […]

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Rendering RSS inside Media Wiki

I’m just getting my feet wet with customizing MediaWiki for several NMC projects- sure it is easy to set up and install out of the box, dump the flower logo for your own, but there is sure a lot of stuff under the hood. There are a lot of flexible editing codes if you can […]

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One of Those Days

Yesterday was just one of those reverse Midas touch days where every piece of technology I touched, so matter how trivial, seemed to up in flames. It would have been advisable to close the laptop, grab a book, and go outside to sit under a tree… but it was 115 degrees in the shade yesterday, […]