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I recently set up a new linux box (Redhat 7.2, kernel 2.4.7-10). Thank god for firestarter and Apachetoolbox.

file under “design autobiography” > My first real experience with print design came during my junior or senior year of high school, when I took Ms. Bennett’s yearbook class. I didn’t take yearbook because I had any profound interest in print design. I took it because it was reputed to be an easy class. Most [...]

We (the wife and I) recently enjoyed spring break (she’s a student and I work at a university) so we, among other things, watched a lot of movies, to wit: Zoolander (big stupid fun), The Smokers (awful), Don’t Say a Word (predictable, but not bad), Ghost World (long and slow, but pretty good), Focus (a [...]

One piece of mail I always enjoy from the gov’ment is my social security statement. It’s just fun, in a darkly comic sort of way, to see how much cash I’ll qualify for when I retire or if I become disabled tommorow (two things I admit I don’t think about much). I searched Google and [...]

Onfocus has a spiffy new design. Moveable Type 2.0 is out. I downloaded it and will (when time permits) migrate to it.
I’ve spent the whole night working on my latest freelance project. Among other things, I coded a bunch of image rollovers by hand (something I hadn’t done in a long, long time). It was [...]

Remembering Year Zero >> I watched The Killing Fields last night. I also caught One Day in September. The older I get, the more I’m interested in history and amazed by how little of it I know in any detail. The Killing Fields concerns the events in Cambodia (under Pol Pot) during the Vietnam war. [...]

God bless Flashtools.net >>
As any of you who’ve spoken with me recently know, I’ve been working like mad on a video project and a CD-ROM project to, among other things, distribute it. The process has really increased my Adobe Premiere and Macromedia Flash skills. As i mentioned in an earlier post, I had originally though [...]

One more story about the incredible stupidity of fundamentalism. Fear any religion which tells you death (yours or someone else’s) is pleasing to god (via rc3.org).
I just noticed that I’m linked in the blogs file on dangerousmeta!. Very cool of him. I love that site.

Lately, when I have a little time to kill, I try to pick up the basics of a scripting language that I haven’t used (or haven’t used very much) before. Earlier this week, I messed around a bit with Bash. I’m fairly familiar with it anyway, since I use that shell constantly, but I don’t [...]

If you use a Mac and haven’t made the jump to OS X yet, you need A-Dock, a cool little application/file/folder launcher similar to the OS X dock. A-Dock makes it really easy to switch between running apps or hide everything but your desktop. It has tons of features and you can customize it to [...]