2008 Two hundred and ninety-two posts

• 11-Dec-2008
  Upgraded to 2.7 You probably can’t actually tell, but the interface is pretty nice – -this is WordPress I’m talking about, the software that powers this blog. More details

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• 09-Dec-2008

  
  New Dayjob in Hollywood Yesterday was the first day at a new dayjob. It went great, about as great as one could have a right to expect–maybe better! I’m playing in HTML and JavaScript and jQuery and PhotoShop and PHP, and soon also Flash, XML, Apache–my usual stuff. It’s highly enjoyable and right across the street from Amoeba Records....

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• 04-Dec-2008

  
  Kimba and Me As the first grandkid, Kimba was jealous of me. I appear pretty happy in that photo, despite the fact that Kimba might be barking. My Grandpa actually had a “mad dog act” he and Kimba would do. Basically my grandfather would get down on all fours and encourage Kimba to lean over the side of...

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• 04-Dec-2008
  Quote of the Day: Jason Zweig What A Bear Market Might Teach Us is well worth reading. So I know what it means to scrimp and save, to do more with less, even to do without. The most important lesson that I learned, I believe, is that money is not wealth. Benjamin Graham once wrote that the secret to happiness is...

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• 03-Dec-2008

  
  Rocketry is the key to receiving The Holy Spirit? I love this album cover, found via LP Cover Lover: i wonder where that places Wernher von Braun or Goddard?

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• 02-Dec-2008

  
  Ex-Cat Photos Unearthed Leahpeah has been doing a great job putting up photos around the new place. Yesterday we found a pile of old photos, including this gem of my ex-cat: More in the Ché gallery.

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• 27-Nov-2008

  
  Happy Thanksgiving If my memory is correct, I’ve spent Thanksgiving in California, Louisiana, Virginia, Utah, and the Philippines. Today I’ll spend Thanksgiving in Nevada with a bunch of family who probably also have never spent Thanksgiving in Nevada. Hoping for the best. The photo above is of my Grandfather and me and some dogs — the Collie...

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• 25-Nov-2008

  
  “Friend Requests” via

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• 25-Nov-2008

  
  Ventura County Tech: Reskinned Simi Valley’s Border 7 provided a wonderful reskin of venturacountytech.com. If you are in Ventura County and in web/tech/design/internet/mobile drop me a line — I’d love to meet you!

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• 24-Nov-2008
  Los Angeles Tech Networking For the past year I’ve ramped up my own tech networking. Someone asked on the excellent and long-running Web405 list for places to network a la VIC (Venice Interactive Community) of the old days (late 1990s) and these were the answers: BarCampLA: http://barcampla.org/ Dealmaker LA: http://www.dealmakermedia.com/la.html Digital Family Reunion: http://www.digitalfamilyreunion.net/ Dorkbot: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/ ExecTech: http://www.meetup.com/ExecTec/ Geek...

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