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Happy Birthday, Al Gore!

Posted on 03/31/2008 by Hal

It happened in 1948. Al Gore, Vice President of the United States and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was born. Are we destined to destroy this place that we call home, planet Earth? I can’t believe that that’s our … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate, Environment, General, Politics | Tagged Al Gore

Staying Current With WordPress 2.5

Posted on 03/30/2008 by Hal

Well, there you go. I’m done upgrading all the blogs in our little domains to WordPress 2.5. Since I have a lifetime shell account here at cornerhost I suppose I should set up svn so I could just automate things. … Continue reading →

Posted in General, Information, Personal, Software, WebDev, Weblogs | Tagged cornerhost, WordPress 2.5

links for 2008-03-29

Posted on 03/29/2008 by Hal

Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them | Speckyboy – WordPress and Design A CSS framework is a library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, del.icio.us, Information, Spatial, WebDev | Tagged best science fiction book series, css frameworks, GIS data for southern Africa

Happy Birthday, Brent!

Posted on 03/26/2008 by Hal
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Today is Brent Simmons‘ 40th birthday. A very Happy Birthday to you! Brent writes NetNewsWire, a free RSS/Atom reader for Mac OS X. Other things have been associated with Brent like Ranchero Software, TigerLaunch, a couple of Userland’s products (Frontier … Continue reading →

Posted in Friends, General, Personal, Software, Weblogs | Tagged Brent Simmons, inessential, NetNewsWire | 1 Reply

links for 2008-03-25

Posted on 03/25/2008 by Hal
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The best books, articles, and Web sites about the recession. – By Daniel Gross – Slate Magazine Do books about the recession lessen the recession in the book industry? (tags: economics finance money 2008+recession)

Posted in Books, Current Events, del.icio.us, General, Meta, Politics | Tagged Bush administration, economics, recession | Leave a reply

Official Death Toll for Iraq Passes 4,000

Posted on 03/24/2008 by Hal

I have no words for this grim event. A.P.’s Death Toll for Iraq War Reaches 4,000 The U.S. military says a roadside bomb has killed four U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, bringing The Associated Press death toll to at least 4,000.The … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, General, History, Information, Politics | Tagged Iraq war

links for 2008-03-24

Posted on 03/24/2008 by Hal

You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss Small autonomous groups with high individual freedom. You’ve heard it before, but it’s still right. “In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally.” [via John Gruber at Daring Fireball] (tags: business culture jobs … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, del.icio.us, General, WebDev, Work | Tagged anthropology of work, CSS, programmer tribes, Work

Happy Easter!

Posted on 03/23/2008 by Hal
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Happy Easter to those who celebrate it on this day. Today being the “first Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon (the Paschal Full Moon) that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox.” As they say in … Continue reading →

Posted in General, History, Information, Religion | Tagged Easter | Leave a reply

links for 2008-03-23

Posted on 03/23/2008 by Hal

FRONTLINE: coming soon: Bush’s War| PBS 2-parts airing March 24 and 25 (tags: politics war bush pbs 9/11 frontline iraq TV)

Posted in del.icio.us, General, History, Politics, Security, TV | Tagged 9/11, Bush administration, Bush's War, Iraq, PBS Frontline

Happy Vernal Equinox!

Posted on 03/20/2008 by Hal

Spring. Sprang. Sprung. And Celtic Mid-Spring, the Astronomical beginning of Spring and for you Neos out there, Ostara too. Susan is there with the news before me: Happy Vernal Equinox which began last night, actually, when it was March 20 … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Information, Nature

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