The Progress Bar

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Entries from October 2006

Dear Lazyweb, Preview Opens Offscreen

October 30th, 2006 ·

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How come whenever I open up an image in [...]

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Apple Store Spoof

October 30th, 2006 ·

Funny Apple online store spoof from a writer in London named Dave McCandless

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New Blog Design

October 29th, 2006 ·

It was time for a new look & feel for this blog. I spend most of my time on my other blog, which supports my consulting business, and I wanted something that supported the latest and greatest widgets and plug-ins. After blogging for more than 4 years, I’d rather focus on the content, not the [...]

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Test Post

October 29th, 2006 ·

Listen to the podcast (1m34s, 2.2 MB).

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The Three C’s

October 29th, 2006 ·

Break users up into the “three c’s” (old school!):
1. creatives (1%)
2. contributors (19%)
3. consumers (80%)
via Calacanis

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Me Want One

October 29th, 2006 ·

Announced today, the latest from RIM, the BlackBerry Pearl. No Verizon service though, sigh.

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Reputation

October 28th, 2006 ·

I am interested in the ongoing role of identity in our online lives and have worked with some of the companies below to help them devlop business models, services and partnerships.

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Firefox 2 and Finder Tweaks

October 28th, 2006 ·

Lifehacker has some absolutely amazing tweaks for the new version of Firefox.
I’ve had some trouble with finder being slooooow lately. A trip to Google, where I learned about turning off Folder Actions and now things are back to normal. Positively zippy.

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Burning Man 2006 Photos

October 25th, 2006 ·

Check out these photos from Burning Man. I’ll make it out there one of these years, waiting for it to have it’s own area code. I should have gone in 1996 when I first heard about it.

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Customized Dating Search Engine

October 25th, 2006 ·

Google has launched a customizable search engine. I’ve created one for this blog and will add others shortly. It’s Google and it’s beta, your mileage may vary.

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