Flyover Country

drunkenbatman gets around.

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Every now and then, someone on Slashdot actually does say something useful:
I personally look forward to the day when the GOP has something to do with, you know, conservatism again. “Spend responsibly” rolls off the tounge better than “constant wanton abuse of power”. Still, at least it was just violation of the basic [...]

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I received my new laptop at long-last today. On average, Program Managers in my group can expect to get new laptops every 24 months. Last month I celebrated my two-year anniversary with Microsoft by ordering a shiny, new Sony Vaio S580. Well, truth be told, I ordered the laptop three weeks ahead of time, on [...]

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There are some pictures from the recent Web 1.0 Summit in San Francisco over on Flickr.
The comments are the best part, by far. My favorite thus far: Is there still room in the “Photoshop: Page Curl Explorations” seminar?

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There are quite a few different alarm clock software packages out there for the Mac and Windows. There are some interesting patterns that immediately present themselves. One of the most obvious is that the Windows alarm clocks out there appear to cost twice the price of most of the Mac clients.
Macintosh:
Alarm [...]

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Without a doubt, my absolute favorite keyboard shortcut in IE 6 is Alt+D, which moves focus to the address bar. Movable Type 3.2, which I just installed, thoughtfully overrides this keyboard shortcut with its access key for Delete. Sigh. C’mon guys, you could’ve used Alt+L just as easily (and although it’s less obvious) at least [...]

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