Yearly Archives: 2006

Not my usual poison…

There aren’t a lot of items in Raves that I would classify as haunting and terrifying, but this is an exception.1 I only knew one of my grandmothers, and only after she was slipping into dementia,2 so this has something … Continue reading

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iTunes 7 (Again?!)

If you’ve read anything about the Just For You section lately, it’s been about how you can turn it off to see the freebies panel on the iTS home page. I’ve found this to be peculiar advice, personally, because I’ve … Continue reading

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iTunes 7

I skipped the whole “first takes on” bandwagon with the last large-ish release of iTunes, but not this time (apparently). So, here’s what jumps out at me: I don’t get why people say the MiniStore is gone. If I show … Continue reading

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Coming of Age

The following story is true; the dates have been changed to protect the lazy. Last night, I heard a sound for the first time, although I still somehow recognized it instantly. I was sitting at my computer working and I … Continue reading

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A Little Bit Slower Now… (a little bit slower now…)

When I log into my user account on my PowerBook, everything stops for a few minutes. Drops of rain stop in mid-air, the wind falls still, the clock stops ticking, and my cat stops preening himself. I’m tired of this. … Continue reading

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Breakage

Apparently my About page has been broken for a while. When I killed the Markdown plug-in for my WordPress install and edited all my posts back to straight HTML, I apparently forgot to do the same for my pages (in … Continue reading

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Vice

I like to think I don’t have many of them, but this is one of them; you just don’t get the same thing from those places where the biggest thing on the sign out front is a dollar sign. Oh, … Continue reading

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…and the wait is over

This evening, exactly unknown days after adding myself to the waiting list, I received my Google Analytics invitation.

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Text Updates

I went through all my (published) entries last night and changed them from Markdown to straight (X)HTML, and fixed the various attached images while I was at it. There shouldn’t be visible changes, but if something is wonky, let me … Continue reading

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FastCGI

Most or all of the PHP on my website is running via FastCGI now. This shouldn’t really effect anyone, but I’m curious whether it shows up in my database usage stats from DreamHost.

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