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Family

Baby Crib – Done!

Our due date (November 26th) is approaching fast, and thankfully we were able to get a lot of baby-related things done this weekend. My biggest accomplishment was putting together our new crib. Casey ordered it from the Sears website on Tuesday, and it was ready for pick-up at the Grand Forks store on Wednesday. Some […]

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Blogging

Berbs.us Updated

My spontaneous Saturday night project turned out to be updating the blogging software that manages this site to Movable Type 3.2, the latest version released just this week. I took the opportunity to do some house cleaning and take care of a few other things I’ve had on my to-do list: Update the look of […]

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Misc.

I Don’t Believe This…

I’m still not sure if I believe this forecast from the Weather Channel: Honestly – I realize this is Grand Forks, but snow in August? I’ll take a few photos if the white stuff actually materializes…

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Music

Finding New Music

Update 8/28/2005 @ 9:10 PM: After downloading Last.fm’s desktop player, I wasn’t impressed. The streaming music would drop every five seconds, even on the direct Internet connection I have at my office. I used Pandora for a couple of days on my Macintosh, and it worked perfectly. The variety of artists was great and the […]

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Music

I’ve Got A Secret

I’ve got a secret I need to confess…

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Web Development

Playing With Movable Type 3.2 Beta 4

I managed to make a lot of progress on the EduTech website redesign yesterday and hope to continue it today. I got the latest Movable Type 3.2 beta release, Beta 4, installed on my PowerMac after compiling Perl DBI and SQLite (they whole “compile a program from its source code” thing is getting less scary […]

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Business

Revolution, Not Evolution

Tonight I decided to make Tom Peters‘ Re-imagine! required listening/reading at least once every two months. I first listened to the audiobook version back in February and started it again while on an after-work walk today. WOW!! I absolutely love Tom’s books and articles. He is so passionate, so ticked off, that you can’t help […]

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Technology

GoogleNet

If this turns out to be true, it would be freakin awesome! Business 2.0 is reporting rumors that Google is quietly buying up unused fiber optic cable (AKA “dark fiber”) around the country to form the high-speed foundation of its own network. One good business reason for this plan is to simply lower Google’s monthly […]

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Web Development

Microformats – Seeing What’s Next For The Web

Update (8/15/2005 @ 11:30 am): I’ve made some changes to my hcard example below after receiving some feedback from Brian Suda, who’s written a cool little tool that extracts hcards from web pages. Thanks Brian! There are tons of really exciting things happening in web design and development right now – it’s a great time […]

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Web Development

Website Redesign: Phase II

I recently finished the first major piece of the EduTech website redesign I mentioned earlier: creating a new page layout. You can take a look at a prototype of the new design if you’re interested. It’s based heavily off a layout demoed by Douglas Bowman at the Web Design World conference in Seattle last month. […]