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Entries from August 2008

Frank is Scared!

August 31st, 2006 · Comments Off

I guess I wasn’t quite done.
“frankhand”

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More Poser

August 31st, 2006 · Comments Off


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Poser Rocks

August 31st, 2006 · Comments Off

I love Poser. DAZ3d does great stuff with Poser characters. Here is a recent
character from DAZ. The emoticon guy.

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O’Reilly and Winer Duke it Out

August 31st, 2006 · Comments Off

Dave’s been bitchin‘ about O’Reilly again. Dave, buddy, get over it. Embrace the “Zen” of the whole thing. That which resists, persists.

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PGP for Gmail–FREE

August 25th, 2006 · Comments Off

Cryptography to webmail. Handy if you need private messaging. GPG is primo encryption.
FreeEnigma brings cryptography to webmail, with an
ingenious set of free and open browser plug-ins that work with Yahoo,
Gmail, and others. The plugins implement a version of GPG (the
free/open version of Pretty Good Privacy) and scramble and de-scramble
the text in your webmail before [...]

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Microsoft butters up FireFox for Vista

August 24th, 2006 · Comments Off

The number of posts and curiosity about Mozilla going to Microsoft
amazes me. Novell engineering and Microsoft OS guys used to visit each
other, exchange technology, and communicate all of the time.
The people I had trouble with at Microsoft was Bill Gates, Paul Mauritz, and Steve Ballmer.
I have to keep reminding people that Msft does not [...]

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Mobile feeds

August 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off

I received a comment about my efforts to create a mobile feed from my web site. Here is the comment.
Try this: http://hellyeahbitch.com/mobile
Makes a mobile version of any site with a RSS feed, just plug in the URL. No logins or anything.

Wierd url but it seems to work. What can I say?

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Top 43 blogs Wiki

August 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off

Can’t say that I agree with the list, but it is useful anyway. Some new ones I didn’t know about.
Welcome to the 43 Best Blogs Wiki. The following
43 blogs are simply the best. Other ‘best of’ blog lists offer 50 or
even 100 ‘best’ blogs, but after painstaking research we have
determined that there are really [...]

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Talkr–blog to podcast conversion

August 23rd, 2006 · Comments Off

Text to speech for podcast listening. I will have to try it before I say I like it. But I like the idea.

Create a free membership

What is Talkr? Talkr allows you to listen to text-only blogs on your iPod.

Talkr podcasts the blogs you love (and the ones you hate, too).

Source: Talkr — Letting blogs [...]

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NY Times River of News

August 22nd, 2006 · Comments Off

I looked at the source for Nytimesriver.com and it is HTML 4.1. I wonder
why Dave didn’t use XHTML Mobile 1.0? Any comments Dave?
Dave Winer fixes mobile news consumption with River-of-News philosophy

Link: BuzzMachine
� Blog Archive � The river of news.

I caught this on Jeff’s site this evening…

Dave Winer is up to something importantÖ again. He has been [...]

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