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Adam Jackson’s One Year in San Francisco series is a good guide for anyone considering a move to San Francisco.
My requirements are a bit different, though. I’d prefer to own a condo, rather than rent an apartment; and I need at least a 2 bedroom with 1000 sq. ft. or more so I can set [...]

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Via CBC:

A B.C. sales representative who markets equestrian products in Canada was barred from crossing the U.S. border to attend a trade show last month by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer who accused him of trying to steal American jobs.
“He looked at me, and in a yelling voice he said, ‘You’re friggin’ stealing [...]

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Mac OS X Internals: The Blog » Blog Archive » Crafting a Tiny Mach-O Executable
Interesting hack illustrating MACH-O executable format.
(tags: osx)

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I received my Sigma 70-300mm AF Macro lens today. It was $147 from Overstock.com. For the price, it’s a good choice if you need a macro lens or an extremely long zoom. I got the non-motorized model, so AF won’t work on low-end cameras like the D40 or D60. The motorized version sells for about [...]

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I usually try to help out around the condo since I’m on the board, rather than simply show up at meetings once a month. Today was one of those days.
This morning I helped prepare a building to be tented for termites. That means making sure everyone left keys, got their pets out, and double [...]

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Last night was the annual Netter’s dinner, the traditional old fart’s Macworld event. As always we meet at the stairs in Moscone South, where Jon Pugh wears his traditional Hawaiian shirt and herds the crowd for the walk to Henry’s Hunan. This year I chickened out and rode, since my FastPack 250 with the D90 [...]

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WordPress 2.7 “Coltrane” has been officially released. This version greatly improves the administrative functions, improves the performance, and adds new capabilities such as sticky posts. If you’re running any beta version of WordPress 2.7 you can update to the final version with a single button from the dashboard.
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I upgraded both this site [...]

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A new WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate is available now. I upgraded both this site and MacMegasite using the built-in update feature with no problems. WordPress 2.7 looks like it’s going to be a solid upgrade that doesn’t break any third-party plugins.

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Apple has finally dropped their ridiculous NDA which has plagued iPhone developers.
From http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/

We have decided to drop the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for released iPhone software.
We put the NDA in place because the iPhone OS includes many Apple inventions and innovations that we would like to protect, so that others don’t steal our work. It has [...]

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Whenever I watch an interview with Sarah Palin I feel like I’m watching a slow motion train wreck. She actually makes Dan Quayle seem intelligent and articulate. When McCain picked her, I lost what little respect I still had for him. There has to be more qualified people he could have picked. Choosing Sarah Palin [...]

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For a long time, my DSL service has been very unreliable. As soon as it started raining, the connection would drop and it would go up and down every few minutes until the storm passes.
Today my phone service and DSL suddenly went dead. No dial tone and no DSL service. When I called BellSouth, they [...]

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Gunther (also known as Ernie) is a very friendly Hemingway cat that needs a home badly. He’s already been to the vet and is neutered. I’ve been feeding him for a while and a few other people are also feeding him. He’s been trying to get into my apartment, but I can’t take him in [...]

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Advice to phishers: learn to spell and capitalize properly.
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It looks like Nintendo shut down Miieditor.com. Their site now shows the following message:
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Luckily I was able to snag the graphics for each page of Mii components a few days ago, which I’m still chopping up and converting to resources that MiiView will composite into an actual mii graphic.

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Dylan is going to Harvard!

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Larry Sessions, a columnist for Earth & Sky, has suggested in his blog that the gamma-ray event whose radiation reached us a few hours before Arthur C. Clarke died, and which occurred 7.5 billion years ago, be named the Clarke Event. The outburst, which produced enough visible light to render it a naked-eye object across [...]

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Here’s the Easter basket I got today.

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this is why I never liked the compact flourescent bulbs.
Their relative energy efficiency is unquestioned. The problem is the mercury — enough in one bulb to contaminate 1,000 gallons of water, even in newer low-mercury bulbs. The EPA has an 11-step cleanup process to follow when you break a CFL in your home. The specialized [...]

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Arthur C. Clarke, one of the greatest science fiction writers, has died. He’s probably best known for “2001: A Space Odyssey”, which he co-wrote with Stanley Kubrick. Clarke was credited with the concept of communications satellites in 1945, decades before they became a reality. Geosynchronous orbits, which keep satellites in a fixed position relative to [...]

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