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Knowledge base: Localization on Mac OS X
(tags: Mac programming)

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On November 28, 2007, the Oakland Park City Commission unanimously voted to name the city’s new downtown park after Jaco Pastorius, The World’s Greatest Bass Player. Jaco’s hometown celebrates its most famous artist with a tremendous honor: a living memorial with a focus on the arts. The 2 1/2 year grassroots effort has come to [...]

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I’ve uploaded a few feed widgets I created for my various sites. All of them are now available on my Widget page. The widgets are for this site’s feed, MacMegasite, my rarely updated WorldBeatPlanet podcast, and my shared clippings from NetNewsWire.

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Today was my last day in Vancouver. I’m leaving early tomorrow morning, so I’m already packed & ready.
I had my best (and cheapest) meal of the trip tonight at Hon’s on Robson street. They give huge portions and almost everything is less than $10. Most of the time I was here we had lots of [...]

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I just got an email from OLPC welcoming me to the community and letting me know that my XO Laptop is on the way.
Thank you for being one of the first to participate
in Give One Get One.
All of us at One Laptop per Child were inspired by the number of people who joined our Give [...]

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Windows Software Linux Software
Linux equivalents of common Windows applications
(tags: linux windows software)

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I didn’t get a chance to post yesterday, but I had an unusually pleasant and uneventful trip. Sunday after US Thanksgiving is supposed to be the worst travel day, but in this case it wasn’t.
I got to the airport at 5AM for a 7AM flight, which meant I had to be up almost 3AM EST. [...]

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Via Mashable!:

It seems that if you’re a band, and you can get your song in an Apple iPod commercial, you can expect a surprising amount of success.
The most striking example of this is when Nick Haley, an 18-year old university student in England, made an amateur commercial for the iPod Touch. He paired his [...]

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I’m leaving early tomorrow morning for Vancouver. This will be my third trip up there this year. I’ve loaded my iPhone and 80G iPod with lots of podcasts I have to catch up with on my flight. I have EDGE roaming turned off with the latest iPhone software, so hopefully I won’t get a huge [...]

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I’ve uploaded the changes to the live my2unz.com site and updated the database. All of the original content is still intact. I disabled playlist import, however, since that feature hasn’t been thoroughly tested.
I’m now using standard CCK fields & standard views, along with the content template module for track, album, artist, and playlist forms rather [...]

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I received a pingback in my Akismet moderation queue a little while ago that led me to a splog that’s stealing content from this and many other blogs. It simply reposts blog entries verbatim and inserts google ads in each post. It grabbed my previous post just a few minutes after I posted it. I [...]

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I was up late last night working on some programming changes to my2unz.com.
I’ve removed the content & view related functions from my iTunes module where the same functionality could be implemented using standard CCK & Views features such as nodereference fields. I still need to get iTunes XML import working the same way again and [...]

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Taylor McNeil interviewed me for his new podcast, Tech Bucket. We discussed a few Mac related stories and I talked about LoJack for Laptops.
Taylor is a local 16 year old podcaster & blogger. Until a few months ago, he lived in my condo community. Taylor’s family was one of the few Prius owners in here.

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How to Shoot in Direct Sunlight
Shooting in direct sunlight can lead to images that have high contrast, blown out highlights, lens flare and colors that might even look overly saturated. If you’re shooting portraits they can also lead to the ’squint factor’.
(tags: photography HOWTO tips)

Top 15 Leopard Hints at Appletell

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Things have been pretty quiet with my2unz.com lately, but I have some big programming changes planned. I finally got a chance to do some work on it over the weekend.
The site uses a custom Drupal module for iTunes integration. In addition to importing iTunes playlist or library XML files, it also defines several content types [...]

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CSS Dock Menu
A nice looking CSS & Javascript Mac-style dock for websites
(tags: css javascript design)

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Software components - OLPCWiki
Information about the XO laptop’s software environment.
(tags: OLPC laptop linux software)

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No, I didn’t get my OLPC yet, but I found a Sugar emulator that runs under Ubuntu (which I’m running under VMware on my MacBook Pro). When I run it, I can see other OLPC users on the internet.
Here are a few screenshots.
Uploaded with Skitch!
A Python programming environment
Uploaded with Skitch!
Turtle graphics to teach kids programming
Uploaded [...]

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I got an email update on the status of my OLPC “Give 1 Get 1″ order:

Thank you for participating in the One Laptop per Child “Give One Get One” program. Your donation of $399.00 will bring education and enlightenment to children of the developing world. $200 of each $399 “Give One Get One” Donation is tax-deductible [...]

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Drupal Modules as of 10/9/07
Extensive table of currently available Drupal modules, arranged by category.
(tags: drupal development)

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