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A history of spreadsheets (via j-walk.com).

Picked up a wireless router today. Now my wife and I can share our connection and she can roam around the house w/o cables. Nice.

hyperdictionary isn’t unusual, except for the dream dictionary feature, which lets you get all Freudian about those aardvarks and zombies that lurk in your subcounscious. I usually use dictionary.com or Google’s define feature, but this seems worth a look, at least for the clean design and lack of popups.

Whenever I find myself unpacking my books after a move, I’m reminded how arbitrary distinctions between fiction and non-fiction can be. Right now, I have two antique book cases. My basic sorting strategy is to put the fiction in one and the nonfiction/criticism/philosophy in the other. This works, for the most part. But in some [...]

Have a happy holiday, but be careful.
For some people, do and don’t lists about web design never get old.

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” – Benjamin Franklin, 1759

Dr. Wilkie, one of my favorite literature professors at the U of A, died this past Sunday. I took several of his courses as an undergrad and he served on my thesis committee. He’ll be missed by many.

Well said.

One of the biggest architectural events going down in my (new) neck of the woods is the construction of the new Cooper River Bridge to replace the existing (beautiful but ancient) Grace Memorial Bridge (built 1929) and the newer Pearman Bridge (built 1968).
The often enlightening Joel urps up this bit of oversimplified dreck about [...]

Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House, a picture of which has long graced my design page, may be saved. I put together a brief tribute to his work.
Saddam captured. There’s no need for me to even mention it, as it’s the only discourse in town at the moment.
My laptop currently runs Windows 2000. My wife’s [...]