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Entries from November 2007

Endangered Species - The Chemistry Set

November 1st, 2007 · Comments Off · News and Politics

I feel sorry for today’s kids who won’t get to experience chemistry sets like we did when I was a kid. I had fun creating spectacular color changes, colored flames, explosions, and filling the room with noxious fumes. Unfortunately those days are gone.

What do Islamofacism, methamphetamine production, tort lawyers, and homemade fireworks have in common? [...]

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Ads in Twitterrific 3.0

November 1st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Macintosh

I agree with Glenn Wolsey on this. I see a lot of complaints about the ads introduced in Twitterrific 3.0, which don’t bother me at all. Pownce’s ads are a lot more annoying, and they seem to appear more often than once an hour.
Twitterrific 2.1 had some very annoying update glitches in Leopard. It bothered [...]

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links for 2007-11-01

November 1st, 2007 · Comments Off · Links

World Passport
75 hours of free world music in mp3/podcast format.
(tags: blog music MP3 podcast)

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Wireless problems in Leopard

November 1st, 2007 · 2 Comments · Macintosh

Many users are reporting problems with wireless networking in Leopard. I’ve seen a slightly different symptom on my MacBook Pro. Instead of progressively slowing down, I find that my Airport connection suddenly dies. A few times I’ve seen an alert saying “the network appears to have been compromised and will be disabled”. Other times it [...]

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