Monthly Archives: February 2005

What must it be like to sleep 10 hours every night?

I find myself wondering, as I putter around the house doing dishes and watching TV and checking out new fonts, while facing another night of five hours of sleep (thanks for the genes, Mom)... what would my life be like … Continue reading 

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I love my swing-arm iMac

I was just thinknig, this morning, as I adjusted my swing-arm iMac's screen for close up work, would I like one of the new G5 iMacs? All it can do is tilt. If someone sits down next to me, I … Continue reading 

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Poor Keywords, I hardly knew ye

I've been using iPhoto 5 to try to (re)organize all my pictures. All 2,500 of them. iPhoto offers several facilities for doing this. You can see your pictures by date, and home in on a particular date or range of … Continue reading 

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Navigation by search?

I was taking a look at Paul Nixon's web site, and his links to the work they are doing redesigning the University of Arizona's web site. They used to have a blogĀ on which they described their work and solicited comments, … Continue reading 

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The iSight Express and the iSight Extreme

So, as you probably know, we do a lot of iSight-enabled iChat AV sessions with Grandma. On our end, we have the iSight attached to an iBook on a wireless network, so we just wander around after the boy (nee … Continue reading 

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I’m reading The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem

I've only just started reading this book, but I already have had a few thoughts I wanted to note, so I thought I'd try a running review/commentary as I go. July 7, 2004. I've read chapter one. The little boy, Dylan, … Continue reading 

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