Davin's blog Archives
2013
2012
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Thinking: Taxonomy of shooting ranges
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My new .22 target pistol, Marvel and Springfield Range Officer
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Excluding a site in a Google search
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LinkedIn UX groups, data and questions
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Attitude-adjusting pointers for professionals
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UX and Project Mangement cross-over article from Interactions magazine
2011
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Downsizing my mattress
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Make an alternate form to register for nanny taxes and increase state tax revenue
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Much ado about phone numbers
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How can MI UPA, IxDA groups, and MichiCHI work together?
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How I use utm_source, utm_medium, utm_campaign from Google Analytics
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Mmm. Steak Sandwich and Garden Fresh Tomato Soup
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Aug 2011 Vacation Photos
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Does Kanban hurt Agile teams by decreasing iterative development?
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Small-caps, web text, and CSS
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The problem with the line break (BR) tag
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A model for UX design reviews
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Addendum to “Getting More From Analysis” by Lewandoswki and Dilworth
Tagged design
2010
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Signing and Encrypting E-mail on Mac OS X 10.6 Using Self-Signed Certificates
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Google Analytics for WordPress (version 4.09) trips HTML validation when tracking outbound links
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Thoughts on Richard Saul Wurman’s Why Design Now talk
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I got to help UXmatters with print styling
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IxDA Lansing kickoff featured speaker Dan Klyn
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More vacation photos
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Photos from Canyon Falls near Baraga, MI
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Visit to Camp Perry 2010
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How to seek and destroy organizational silos
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Stop the stopwatch, UXers!
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The “Pause.” Cup Escapades, June 2010
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Newsweek’s Spring 2010 Website Redesign
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My 2.5 days in San Francisco: MX 2010
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How to write release notes
Tagged linkedin, releasenotes, writing -
Another pistol tournament, Flushing
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jQuery: Show password checkbox
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Getting back into competitive pistol shooting
2009
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Argh! I’m pen-less!
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Nephtali web framework creator talks FP
Tagged Adam, frameworks, functional programming, linkedin, nephtali, oop, web development -
How WordPress falters as a CMS: Multiple content fields
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Experience theme for Covenant Eyes
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Seams between systems and the Vignelli NYC subway map
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The Thanksgiving Duck
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A recipe for disaster?
Tagged crockpot, food, thanksgiving, turkey -
WUD 2009 at MSU recap
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WUD: captcha problems discussed in assistive tech expo
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Paper: crucial to Web design
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XSL to get text from Apple Pages documents
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Pistol match, Oct 20, 2009: the good and the bad
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Bing delivers surprising amount of traffic to rangelistings.com
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A Walk in Ringwood Forest
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How to aim with iron or open sights
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Many stories in user experience
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A Sad Tale of Pagination
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UserVue review
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Pistol practice, Aug 15, 2009 and notes on iron sights for Ruger Mk II
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Vacation in the Keewenaw
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Amazing Grace: The Journey, new YouTube video from Adam
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Question from Eva about alarm clocks
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Young Earth Creationism—huh?
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Church uncertainties, church seeking
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“P” is for parking–-you could’ve fooled me
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Note to self regarding “Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions” by Zachary Shore
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SMASH: I was in a car accident
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Pistol practice, Apr 25, 2009
Tagged ammunition, bullseye, highstandard, ruger, saginaw field & stream, shooting -
1st foray with svn:externals
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Thanks MS. But I don’t want to disconnect from the Internet.
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Helvetica vs Arial comparison
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Eva: It’s hard growing up
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I was a Whole Foods first-timer
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IUE2009: Now what?
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IUE2009: A few photos from the last day
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IUE2009: Thursday’s tracks
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IUE2009: Keynote track, part 2
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IUE2009: Keynote track
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IUE2009: Field research class
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IUE2009: Use Cases and Scenario-Based Design
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Next week: IUE2009
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Fatten me up?
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Lila’s whiteboard art: EVA
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DSS.MIL is not to be trusted
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“God is so good” rendition by Adam
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First pistol practice of the season!
Tagged ammunition, saginaw field & stream, scores, shooting -
The Google AdSense conundrum
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Is it Spring yet? I got stuck on a muddy road.
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Tim Horton’s WIFI page…fitting
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Let’s stop playing Frankenstein
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Marking up breadcrumb navigation
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Stay up-to-date through our…what?
Tagged interface design, typography, writing
2008
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Christmas 2008 photos
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Snowy day in Chassell, MI
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Snowy day in St Charles, MI
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Switching to WordPress
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Faith, as from Hebrews and Tozer
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Bunk beds!
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HTML form fields that, when not selected, do not even send a field name upon submit
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Slamming dough
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MSU 4-H Children’s Garden
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Mourning and joy
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A degree, finally?
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Ladies and gentlemen: introducing REGEXER.COM!
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Surge in UX jobs?
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Poetry voice, radio voice
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Revision: Using Javascript to add instructive text for input and textarea form fields
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Rieska recipe
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Omelette!
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Lila and Eva posing while decorating cookies, Easter 2008
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I finally did the right thing and joined the Usability Professionals Association
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Perspective: Websites are fleeting.
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The trouble with desiring less is that it is easier to have more.
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Memories of snow
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Zen rock gardens, accessibility, information architecture
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Perspective 2 Studio is hopping!
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MSU English Department Film series, ICS file
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Using Javascript to add instructive text for input and textarea form fields
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Nephtali
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Design connections
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Performing music
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Ye Olde Man
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What do you look for at a party store?
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I’m a student again, and tardy already!
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Can robots.txt prevent a dead page from being removed from a search engine’s index?
2007
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Restricting search indexing to sections of a web page
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XML file of shooting ranges in Michigan
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Sample KML structure for the shooting ranges data
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Clean XHTML of shooting ranges data
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Map of shooting ranges in Michigan
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Wow, did John Manning and his crew help me out.
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Read: Everything is Miscellaneous by Weinberger
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Usability in Packaging
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The divorce has taken place
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Child-like logic
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We need a “credit” attribute in XHTML
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Dates related to our marriage
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Congratulations, your bank account has been deleted!
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Fryeburg Academy in Maine denies yearbook photos of junior shooter
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Photos from Christmas up in Chassell
Tagged Family
2006
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New Ph.D. program site at MSU College of Education
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I’m geeked
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What does it take to be an evangelist of good interface design?
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I educate
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Praise God for food!
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Authenticate, commenters!
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Where does chicken come from?
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Lila painted this in Photoshop CS 2
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Global nav is phooey?
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Swimming in Superior
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Salmon dinner
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I miss my girls
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A timeless quote and a relentless question
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Shooting is humbling
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Overview of PGP, S/MIME and the evolving versions of secure e-mail
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Video of Lila painting in the bathtub
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A clean target
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Securing e-mail
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Dinner
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More Slow Fire scores
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Sunflower design
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Slow Fire scores
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My first pasta dinner
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Family in town
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I can eat crunchy peanut butter now.
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Stories and kiddie-coffee
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Techie error text
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Shooting update
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New address
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Divorce
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Nice error text from Gmail
2005
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Change in web design is emerging, again
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Transitioning into this job
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If I owned a Mexican restaurant…
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Photo: MSU Writing Center crew from way back
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Don’t be passing up good…
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Removing words from the Microsoft Office Custom Dictionary
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Hey look, Lee and me
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[mutter]
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MSU Usability & Accessibility Center
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Spam: debjesusislord
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[nav links above do not lay out properly in some browsers]
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MS Manual of Style has no “open source” entry
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Diagram of XHTML, CSS, JavaScript as types of code in a web page
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Stop gun laws. Strengthen enforcement.
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Why use CSS-based layouts?
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$100 laptop from MIT Media Labs
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I’m looking for a good text editing program for Windows, for coding
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ANGEL at MSU–Who tossed out the IA?
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Comments work.
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Variations on burying our dead
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I’m corn intolerant
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OS 10.4.2 does not connect to Win 2000 server
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Was able to connect with OS 10.2.8 to Win 2000 server using Active Directory authentication (Troubleshooting, continued)
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Troubleshooting OS 10.4 connection to Windows share using Active Directory authentication
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Comment troubles
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Trouble with PHP5 and SQLite 3
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Coming soon? Dual-boot, Mac & Win
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LAMP or WIMP?
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Prognosticating on LAMP vs .NET, J2EE
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Email or e-mail?
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Securing the Mac 10.4 laptop
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Melt-down proof, modular nuclear power plants
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Teaching DW MX 2004 L2
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Down like Rumplestiltskin.
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Dreamweaver MX 2004: Less than great for dynamic web applications
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Phi, phi, design notes
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Web Site Visibility class
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Online services bypassing distribution problems in markets like music and videos, the Long Tail article
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Bears! Oh my.
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Commuting! Oh ye bane of my time! Oh ye cursed destroyer of my schedule!
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What a change
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my sad haiku
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A job offer!
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Rewrote the main page code and css of this blog
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The ‘puter is dead
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Okay, now I’m pretty irate.
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Oh, good news on the job search
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MS Win XP buggin out again
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Duck!
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More job apps
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Presentation plan and class handout
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The LCTTP interview went really well
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Second interview with MSU LCTTP
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Field-tested veteran Web Professional.
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Cold calling for jobs
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The U.P., land of penguins and icebergs.
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Yet another interview with Sircon
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color shift
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UX is a quality, not discipline, thoughts spurred by Peter Merholz
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Features of robust dynamic menus
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Eva’s mystique with the iBook
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Software Development Company, nice branding
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Change is afoot in the web…More foundational than when the first graphic showed up in a web browser…
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Oh, and how about major merger?
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Blasted squirrels
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Interviews, more interviews
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Job hunting
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I’m in the market for a job
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Look! It’s Chassell.
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Plumbed
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Truly, this is Chey’s daughter.
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Our sump pump runs every 45 seconds
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2004
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reading of late
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redesign coming soon
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If that aint funny. . .
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I figured out IPhoto. Be proud.
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CBS News: 5 killed in shootout among deer hunters
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Oh, the places you’ll go!
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update.
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The beginning of the�
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Hold on to what we’ve got. . . .
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Eva the aficionado
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humph!
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Wino wisdom
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I’m done. I’m an official knitter.
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Acting! —- Brilliant.
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Let’s generate some good Karma!
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The truth, the whole truth. . .
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Beva the Great!
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Quote of the Day
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Do not be yolked. . .
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My bacon, egg, moz. cheese, grape jelly, mayo, tomato on toast sandwich
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Why your movable type blog must die.
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Why yes, I do. . .
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intersections
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Sept. 11 memory
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Wired article: Ads that Annoy Also Succeed
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An apt description?
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Class of ’94
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Legal action on accessible web sites in USA
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for those who don’t read the comments
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katsup; ketchup; catsup; catch-up
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Gonna have to register
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Eh. . .What was that, sonny?
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IOC vs Free Speech?
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Pictures from when Lila was a newborn
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Comment problems
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The best vitamin for a Christian
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a bittersweet end.
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Catch 22 (what does that even mean?)
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Beauty of a web site
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I’ve got friends in low places . . .
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Cutie-Patootie
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Fitt’s Law Applied to the Web
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FUNNY: Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Thinking about affordances & convention in web design
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. . .And they’re off!
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Once a Thief. . .
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The Greatest Mac. . .
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Nice horns
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Fleeing monkey narrowly escapes three-year-old zoo-goer
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One more thing. . .
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Wait, there’s more. . .
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How HTML and CSS is like an egg hatching.
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It’s a headache that’s got you.
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Photo: Two Cute
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Dave Agnew’s web site
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So, the colors here
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Uhh. . .
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Congratulations to the Junior Pistol Team from the Ottowa Sportsmen’s Club
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Too hot to sleep, too tired to work
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Down to FIVE messages in my inbox
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Indenting blocks of code in Dreamweaver
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Trackpad button fix on clamshell iBook
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Visual music searches
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Goodbye, everyone.
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Prankster billboard
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Mooter.com
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Moving on up. . .
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If I had a hammer. . .
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Weary, weary
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“I don’t know how this is going to end. . .”
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No man is an island. . .
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So, as the follower I am, I too took the personality quiz
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I’m sooo close to the edge. . .
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Sort or search your email?
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Summer/city blues, part two
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Summer/city blues
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Tick-tock. . .
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Are you ready to RUMBLE?
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HOkay, This is a stinking
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a chainsaw for your birthday?
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Hm, a bug.
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Site tweak | Lila’s prayers
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. . .And the answer is. . .
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well, what do ya think about that?
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The prodigals have returned
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DNA Study Finds Chihuahuas Aren’t Dogs
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a decadent pleasure
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Too shy, shy. . .
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knock, knock, anybody home?
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I wonder as I wander
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If I knew now, what I will know then. . .
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a few questions
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Getting into you
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Blog for me, blog for you?
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I couldn’t have said it better. . .
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I’m hoooome!
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So close, but yet. . .
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Two “separate” readings
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Props to Capital Area District Library on their web site
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A star is born!
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It’s like a tangerine dream!
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Is there anybody out there?
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Why ask why?
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I scream, you scream, we all scream for. . .
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“These are the people in your neighboorhood. . .”
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Googlism?
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“You know you’re a geek when. . .”
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“Back in the saddle, again. . .”
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Rule # 14453.7.
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End of the world? Freaky stuff.
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XML/RSS is awesome
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Yeah, Baby!
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This is Hilarious!
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Chey’s Computer Kata
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“All we like sheep. . . .”
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The Day of the Lord
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Venting (&^$%#@!!!) about a web host company.
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Yooper Cooler
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“Everybody get together, try to love one another, right now”
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Just Watched Punch-Drunk Love
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More good news!
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Plug for Mr. Tufte
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She’s got the Mange!
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Where is the teacher of the fish?
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feeling a little Violated
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The Coffee Thing
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Sounds like Spring
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Coincidence? I think not.
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I love it, I love it, I love it!
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Look Ma, No Hands!
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Welcome Chey!
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Another Eva photo
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Eva, grunting
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What not to do in northern Michigan towns
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Writing, distraction, writing
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Sir Inventor of the Web
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2003
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Thoughts on understanding and wisdom
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Dry mouths
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What’s the difference between enculturation and socialization?
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Happy Birthday Lila!
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Pics from Binder Park Zoo
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Giraffe close-up
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A memory, meditation, and a story of ice
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Sauna stuff
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Introducing Master Chey.
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“Under Command” — a band my brother referred me to
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I am a wimp
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Eva pics, part 2
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PRS Guitars featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered”
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Semantic vs. valid markup
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Pictures of Eva, part 1
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LukeW. linking to my web tips!
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The Power Outage and my router(s)
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Thanks
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Eva Marie Granroth is here!
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Contractions
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Pics from Ingham County Fair!
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Cooking up a storm
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The manuscript is in, the MA is looming
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National Junior Pistol Champions!
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Visual description of an HTML element
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How can anything like “Microsoft patches holes in Windows” be worthy of being a top story
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Chey’s thesis at the grad college
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PHP tab navigation switcher
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Burning the midnight oil
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Shot at Ottowa Sportsmen’s Club
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Muggy, muggy, muggy
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Study suggests shift in methodology for web development is needed
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Bumble won.
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I have a workaround…
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MS Access is my nemesis.
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Lila’s first climb up a ladder!
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Big sis’ coming through; Chey wrapping up the thesis!
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Say goodbye, Netscape.
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Lila and Ethan at Johnny Rockets
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xsl to tranform xhtml pages
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help design this page – calendar, y or n?
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search placement spam
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No broccoli, no ice cream!
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kranzo design — the flash man
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Weekend at Higgins Lake
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I was told to relax
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Ah hah! I’m now using MT!
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going to move this site soon
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I used to write stuff
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couldn’t have said it better myself
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watch for this book
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Cheaper DSL! Way to go, Verizon.
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Broadband over your electrical wiring
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Launched a site yesterday…
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Frontpage vs Dreamweaver
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This is hilarious! Putin a little fairy!
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Copyright wars
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Cinammon stick rant
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Talk about taking advantage of the war…
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web art…maybe
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Why, Apple? Why?
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How To Lead a Rich Life
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Great Google, Batman!
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A rather unique blog –
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Pics from Indiana Here are
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Kudos to Johnson Consulting Network
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The web ain’t cheap!
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I am alone.
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Tri-state road review
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A tech company in Okemos? Who’d a thought…
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Redesigned
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We’re expecting, by the way…
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Ditched the frames.
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Zeldman is doing a redesign,
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“Go kitchen. Cook food.” Lila,
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In the ongoing search for masterpieces on the web…
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A bold statement “Ultimately, I
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Here’s some web history…this write
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Okay, so this site uses
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Great post from Noel. Gas
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heh…guess I have to wait
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Okay, testing blogger…want to see
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The power went off in
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First post to this site…wanted
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