wheatblog

personal weblog of James "Wheatbread" Martin

Month: December, 2003

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

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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.

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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.

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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 [...]

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