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What I DIDN’T do this summer

Create accounts on my MacBook and really get a handle on securing it.
Create a custom search engine in Google that would search the sites I tend to read the most: Lifehacker, Marginal Revolution, Kevin Kelly’s sites, 43Folders, Web Worker Daily, my delicious bookmarks, Ask Metafilter, etc. I created a custom engine of usability sites for [...]

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As within, so without

When my mind and life get cluttered, so do my physical environments. When I lived on my own, it was the whole apartment. Now, it’s pretty much confined to my home office. But as I celebrate the end of the semester and contemplate what to do with myself this summer, I scan the office and [...]

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Zero-Grief Policy

So I traveled the world only to return home again.
I’ve been looking for a faster, more convenient way to write and post to this blog. I’ve been struck by several ideas I’d like to comment on but the lack of a lightweight, non-fussy app to do this has vexed me. I tried ScribeFire, but it [...]

Another new WP theme

I went to plaintext.org, looking for something clean and minimal, and so am trying out the Barthelme template. I figured out that one reason I wasn’t posting more often was that I didn’t think the Chameleon look was really “my blog” (though I did like the two small administrivia columns to the right of the [...]

Hello world!

Instead of deleting the default post when starting a new WordPress blog, why not accept the cheery default title and pronounce this new blog well and truly open for business.