Archive for September, 2004



Now with Favicon!

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wow, I now have a favicon.ico – the world shakes!

It isn’t working in safari though. I added “LINK REL=”SHORTCUT ICON” HREF=”/favicon.ico”“ but this hasn’t helped. I looked at google.com’s source and that doesn’t mention anything about favicon.

Someone throw me a bone? I’ve wasted an hour googling an answer to no avail :/

[...]

Dowser is a research tool for the web. It clusters results from major search engines, associates words that appear in previous searches, and keeps a local cache of all the results you click on in a searchable database. It helps you keep track of what you find on the web.

http://dowser.sourceforge.net/

MetaVNC pursues a remote desktop environment [...]

Man, yo bruthas a morphine head

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Wired has an article about some scientists, who finally proved that the human body can produce its own Morphine.

A quote:They found morphine in the limbic center, which is involved with emotions.”That puts this new signaling molecule in a very crucial part of the brain,” Stefano said. “If morphine’s there, it’s involved with subjective thinking.”

I ponder: [...]

google knows best

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Ask google who George Bush’s friends are and it asks you if perhaps, you meant his former friends.

= funny

Google Search: “bush’s foreign friends”

from 1000 to 0

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Spurred on by the advice here, I have reduced my crazy inbox of over 1000 unsorted emails to 0.

This pdf was linked to in the comments on that post: http://www.goodexperience.com/reports/e-mail/email-report-goodexperience.pdf

also has good suggestions on managing email.

Remains to be seen if this will last but I remain hopefull and will try to be diciplined.

It took [...]

purdy widgets for firefox

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I got sick of safari being slow on some sites (especially bloglines.com) and when I tried the firefox Preview Release it was so much faster that decided the switch. oh bleh, yet another browser switch blog.

Well here is something usefull:

Technical Jiggery Pokery: Pretty Widgets, part 2

btw, anyone know why the nutr.itio.us bookmarklet drops behind [...]

Poem: The Elucive New

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Haven’t written a poem in ages – but here is one now

The Elucive New

it is right here

glean of leaf

need something more

smooth chocolate texture

keep it going

i forget why

leaf smooth glean

it will find

mischarged for this

hi-lights on blue

you think it is

aluminium – yes

coated on brill

distinct is not

hyper update

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- Blogging as Personal Knowledge management? Stephen has a good post about this on his blog that resonated with current thoughts of mine. A problem I have though is if I think about making a post, I feel I need to spend a lot of time making it a well rounded article. Stating something is [...]



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Cris Pearson from Melbourne, Australia.
Grew up in George Town, Tasmania.

CEO, co-founder, interaction + interface + graphic
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