August 2005
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<a title="Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina" href="http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/index.html">Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina</a>. Maps: The Impact of Hurricane Katrina. A flash info-graphic.≡ 31 Aug 2005
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Syndicated Feeds.
I just added a Syndicated Feeds section to the site. It’s still experimental and I’m in the process of working out a few functional and usability issues, but read on for more technical description of the script, and what syndicated feeds are in particular.
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<a title="Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!" href="http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,68654,00.html">Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!</a>. Flickr Fans to Yahoo: Flick Off!. So, I know this is all old news, but I ran across this article that Wired published yesterday about the recent aquisition of Flickr by Yahoo and the Flickr users that aren’t happy.≡ 30 Aug 2005
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Why This Band Plays On. Why This Band Plays On. Having recently attended “The Festival for Beatles Fans” in Chicago a few weeks ago, I was astonished by this very question: why the Beatles are still so popular. Mikal Gilmore from NY Times summarizes.≡ 29 Aug 2005
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<a title="Texas Gunman Kills 4 in Church, Then Self" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082900362.html">Texas Gunman Kills 4 in Church, Then Self</a>. Texas Gunman Kills 4 in Church, Then Self. Sad, sad, sad.≡ 29 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4194698.stm">Hurricane set to lash New Orleans</a>. Hurricane set to lash New Orleans. “New Orleans may never be the same.”≡ 29 Aug 2005
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<a title="At least 41 dead in Peruvian plane crash" href="http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/24/america/web.0824peru.php#">At least 41 dead in Peruvian plane crash</a>. At least 41 dead in Peruvian plane crash. There’s been a lot of plane crashes lately. IHT has a summary of crashes in the last month, and CNN has a summary of major crashes in the last 5 years.≡ 24 Aug 2005
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<a title="Google Talk" href="http://www.google.com/talk/">Google Talk just released</a>. Google Talk just released. I just downloaded it, but don’t have any friends to talk to. Anyone want to be my friend?≡ 23 Aug 2005
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<a title="Children Behind Bars: A Photo Look at a Juvenile Detention Center" href="http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/juveniles/">Children Behind Bars: A Photo Look at a Juvenile Detention Center</a>. Children Behind Bars: A Photo Look at a Juvenile Detention Center. My wife Mandy has worked as a chaplin for a Juvenile Detention Center and as a Social Worker for a halfway house for troubled-teens (most of them on their way in or out of jail). The stories told by Time are very similar to the stories Mandy has shared with me. How to discipline teens, and get them the help they really need, is a complicated and important issue. More Time photo essays here.≡ 23 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1549930,00.html?gusrc=rss">Despite penning a 528-page autobiography Victoria Beckham claims never to have read a book in her life</a>. Despite penning a 528-page autobiography Victoria Beckham claims never to have read a book in her life. Come on now. Tell me the truth. Seriously.≡ 22 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://desktop.google.com/features.html">New version of Google Desktop</a>. New version of Google Desktop. Now it’s got a side bar mode. Also, there has been speculation of an Instant Messaging client from Google that may be coming out soon as well. I think it’s a bit fishy that GDS out of the box has an option for searching through chat logs, but it’s disabled by default. Hmmmm….≡ 22 Aug 2005
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Beatles Fest.
Last weekend, I had the guilty pleasure of attending Beatles Fest, Chicago. I didn’t get many good picture oppurtunities, but here’s one of Ma, Pa, Shelly, Mandy and myself.
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<a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1548054,00.html?gusrc=rss">Every man is an island</a>. Every man is an island. A man’s got to make an island for himself.≡ 20 Aug 2005
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Preparation for First Steps.
Brian paid a visit to the doctor yesterday to get X-Rays, and to see how his wounds were healing. Again, I wasn’t able to be there, but Mom and Dad (and Jill of course) were. Here’s the low-down from Jill.
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<a title="Powerful quake shakes northern Japan" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/16/japan.earthquake.ap/">Powerful quake shakes northern Japan</a>. Powerful quake shakes northern Japan≡ 16 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1792162005">152 feared dead in Venezuelan air crash</a>. 152 feared dead in Venezuelan air crash. The pilot radioed before the crash, saying first one engine had failed, then both had failed.≡ 16 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://graphics.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20050812_WTC_GRAPHIC/met_WTC_histories_full_01.html">Oral Histories From Sept. 11</a>. Oral Histories From Sept. 11. Compiled by the New York Fire Department and published by The New York Times.≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a title="Viewing Color Code: A Color Portrait of the English Language" href="http://loop.aiga.org/resources/loop/loop9/colorproject/colorcode.html">Viewing Color Code: A Color Portrait of the English Language</a>. Viewing Color Code: A Color Portrait of the English Language. Each noun is color-coded based on a Google Image search of that noun. You can search around by meaning, or by color.≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a title="Historic home price increases" href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/15/real_estate/historic_home_price_gains/index.htm?section=money_topstories">Historic home price increases</a>. Historic home price increases. Midwest stats: home values climbed 12.1 percent during the last 12 months to $167,800. The national median price is now $208,300.≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/14/hotel.package/index.html">"A training device mistakenly left by a Secret Service contractor at a Washington hotel was the 'suspicious package' that prompted a building evacuation Sun. “A training device mistakenly left by a Secret Service contractor at a Washington hotel was the ‘suspicious package’ that prompted a building evacuation Sunday afternoon”. Gee, I’m glad to see that our Secret Service agents are so careful.≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/si/2005/golf/specials/pga_championship/2005/08/15/monday.recap/index.html?section=cnn_topstories">Phil Mickelson wins PGA Championship</a>. Phil Mickelson wins PGA Championship. “Phil Mickelson delivered another dramatic finish in a major on Monday, flopping a chip out of deep rough to 2 feet for a birdie on the final hole and a one-shot victory in the PGA Championship.”≡ 15 Aug 2005
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The Aug. 22 issue of The New Yorker. The Aug. 22 issue of The New Yorker, due out Monday, will contain ads only from Target Corporation. This is the first time in 80 years that the New Yorker has done this. “Target [however,] has been a sole sponsor before of issues of magazines, among them People.”≡ 15 Aug 2005
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Things I’ve overheard a fellow Software Engineer say to his computer while writing code.
- Houston, we have a problem.
- I’m not crazy, I’m not crazy!
- How do you like them apples?
- Wha wha wha whaaa… 1
- Man, it’s like raining cats and dogs in here.
- Liar liar pants on fire.
- It’s always fun ‘til someone pokes an eye out.
- At long last: vending machines.
- Huh, got up on the wrong side of the bed I guess.
- They pay people to do this stuff? Hah, suckers.
- Sung with the tone of a whiny trumpet and to the same tune as when something bad happens to a cartoon character.↩
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<a title="Less-Threatening Islamist Groups." href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/10ChrisWilkinson.html">Less-Threatening Islamist Groups.</a>. Less-Threatening Islamist Groups.. A list by McSweeny’s contributing writer, Chris Wilkinson. Some of my favorites: “Hamas and Garfunkel”, “Gene Loves Hezbollah”, “Balsamic Jihad”, and “Weird Al Qaeda”≡ 15 Aug 2005
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<a title="Picasso on Costco" href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/12/news/fortune500/costco_picasso/index.htm?section=money_topstories">Picasso on Costco</a>. Picasso on Costco. What’s next? Caskets and Yellow Diamond Rings? Oh wait, they’ve already done that.≡ 14 Aug 2005
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<a title="Greece investigates plane crash" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4151398.stm">Greece investigates plane crash</a>. Greece investigates plane crash. “An investigation has begun into Greece’s worst ever air crash, in which all 121 people on board a Cypriot airliner died.”≡ 14 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.christiantoday.com/news/america/elca.decision.on.gay.members.reflects.church.base.says.us.church/385.htm">ELCA Rejects Ordination of Homosexuals</a>. ELCA Rejects Ordination of Homosexuals. “Delegates to the national meeting voted Friday to remain unified despite their differences over homosexuality, and voted against the ordination of homosexuals in the ELCA.”≡ 14 Aug 2005
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Northwoods Triathlon: Part II.
We just got back from the Northwoods Triathlon in Nevis, MN. My last entry (Northwoods Triathlon: Part I) gave a little introduction into the triathlon and how much training has gone in to it. Now that we’re back, I have stories and photos.
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<a title="Donald Weber, Ukraine (2005)" href="http://www.donaldweber.com/ukraine/">Donald Weber, Ukraine (2005)</a>. Donald Weber, Ukraine (2005). The Underclass and Its Bosses≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="Tim Berners-Lee profile in The Guardian" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1547447,00.html?gusrc=rss">Tim Berners-Lee profile in The Guardian</a>. Tim Berners-Lee profile in The Guardian. And home at W3C.≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="FDNY to release 9/11 radio transmissions today" href="http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fdny12.html">FDNY to release 9/11 radio transmissions today</a>. FDNY to release 9/11 radio transmissions today≡ 12 Aug 2005
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Yarnzilla. Yarnzilla. Freakonomics T. This is quite possibly the nerdiest piece of clothing on the planet.≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="Nurse Recalls Famous Times Square Kiss" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/12/AR2005081200004.html">Nurse Recalls Famous Times Square Kiss</a>. Nurse Recalls Famous Times Square Kiss. On the famous photo of a sailor kissing a nurse symbolizing the end of WWII. Unfortunately, no one knows who the sailor was. More than 20 men that have come forward saying they were the sailor. Edith Cullen Shain (the nurse) says, “‘There were so many people kissing,’ she said, ‘I think they all believe they are right.’”≡ 12 Aug 2005
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<a title="Napoleon Dynamite Talking Toys" href="http://www.funtalking.com/">Napoleon Dynamite Talking Toys</a>. Napoleon Dynamite Talking Toys. Numero Uno on my birthday list.≡ 12 Aug 2005
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Northwoods Triathlon: Part I.
This weekend is the Northwoods Triathlon. Mandy is racing in it along with her friends Chloe H. and Matt C.. Mandy has been training for a year in preparation for this weekend and nervous tension is high.
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<a title="HousingMaps" href="http://www.housingmaps.com/">HousingMaps</a>. HousingMaps. Dang dude. Downright slickety!≡ 10 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://12knotheel.blogspot.com/">Those crazy Olson's</a>. Those crazy Olson’s. are at it again. Ben, and Colin.≡ 9 Aug 2005
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Matt and Chloe.
Last weekend, Mandy and I had the pasta of our dreams at Broder’s Pasta Bar near 50th and France with our friends Matt and Chloe.
Broder’s is this kind of small, quaint place that’s usually full. Oh yeah, and it’s got some colander light fixtures too, which kind of weirded me out.
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<a title="US singer Cohn shot by carjacker" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4133832.stm">US singer Cohn shot by carjacker</a>. US singer Cohn shot by carjacker. After he made the hit “Walking in Memphis”, he was declared to be immortal. But surviving a shot to the head? Dang, I guess it is true.≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a title="Nagasaki Remembers August 9, 1945 Atomic Attack" href="http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-08-09-voa13.cfm">Nagasaki Remembers August 9, 1945 Atomic Attack</a>. Nagasaki Remembers August 9, 1945 Atomic Attack≡ 9 Aug 2005
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Monson Wedding Photos. Monson Wedding Photos from this last weekend.. Taken by my buddy P.O. and his wife, Heather.≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a title="Discovery Lands Safely in California" href="http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050809_sts114_touchdown.html">Discovery Lands Safely in California</a>. Discovery Lands Safely in California≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://news.google.com/intl/en_us/news_feed_terms.html">Google makes available news feeds in RSS and ATOM formats.</a>. Google makes available news feeds in RSS and ATOM formats.. For use with your favorite news reader. The Google blog has more info.≡ 9 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.martindalecenter.com/Calculators.html">Calculator Heaven</a>. Calculator Heaven. Props to my friend, Curt M. for sending me this one.≡ 8 Aug 2005
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<a title="Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/07/jennings.obit/index.html">Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer</a>. Peter Jennings dies of lung cancer. 1938-2005≡ 8 Aug 2005
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<a title="Wired 13.08: Art Attack" href="http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/bansky.html">Profile of Banksy in this month's issue of Wired.</a>. Profile of Banksy in this month’s issue of Wired.≡ 3 Aug 2005
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Manipulations.
A few people have asked how Brian’s surgery went yesterday. Who better to tell you, than Brian and Jill themselves? Since I’m in Santa Barbara and haven’t been able to be around, Brian and Jill sent me the following update via the miracle of Email.
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<a href="http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/005707.php">I can honestly say that right now, at this moment, I'm drooling all over myself.</a>. I can honestly say that right now, at this moment, I’m drooling all over myself.≡ 2 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/WORLD/americas/08/02/toronto.crash/index.html?section=cnn_topstories">Passengers, crew escape blazing plane</a>. Passengers, crew escape blazing plane. Amazing that all 309 survived.≡ 2 Aug 2005
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Washington Highlights.
I’ve finally weeded through all the photos we took from our trip to Washington. Here’s some highlights.
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Air France jet burns. Air France jet burns after skidding off Toronto runway. More than 200 people were on board.≡ 2 Aug 2005
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Leaving for Ukraine/Washington.
Well, as you’ve probably guessed by now, Mandy and I are back from Washington. On our way there, it just so happened that our flight left Minneapolis around the same time that my Dad left for Ukraine.
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<a title="Apple Introduces the Mighty Mouse" href="http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/">Apple Introduces the Mighty Mouse</a>. Apple Introduces the Mighty Mouse≡ 2 Aug 2005
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<a title="Flickr: Explore interesting photos from the last 24 hours" href="http://flickr.com/explore/interesting/24hours/">Flickr: interesting photos from the last 24 hours</a>. Flickr: interesting photos from the last 24 hours. And Clusters! Check out the one for “Urban”.≡ 2 Aug 2005
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<a title="50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com" href="http://www.time.com/time/2005/websites/">50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com</a>. 50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com. I can’t actually figure out when in 2005 this was published. Interesting nevertheless.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/space/shuttle/0,2895,68336,00.html">NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet</a>. NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet. “Until they can eliminate the hazard posed by debris falling off the space shuttle, NASA officials halt further flights.”≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a href="http://startribune.com/stories/509/5537334.html">Twins say Hunter broke ankle bone</a>. Twins say Hunter broke ankle bone. He’ll be on crutches for 3-4 weeks and may miss the rest of the season.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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First smokeless cigarette. First smokeless cigarette to go on sale. “The cigarette has been cleared for commercial release and should be on sale early next year.”≡ 1 Aug 2005
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Dentures Removed From Man's Bronchial Tube. Dentures Removed From Man’s Bronchial Tube. Only in Taiwan.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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Litchfield Starlite 5.
This weekend (on Friday night), Rob and Jenny got a few friends together to go to the Litchfield Starlite 5 Drive-In. We saw a double feature: Fantastic Four, and Monster-in-Law.
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<a title="Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows" href="http://www.nvu.com/">Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows</a>. Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows Open Source, and version 1.0 is now available.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a title="India rain death toll nears 750" href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/07/28/mumbai.rain/index.html">India rain death toll nears 750</a>. India rain death toll nears 750≡ 1 Aug 2005
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<a title="King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4734175.stm">King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies</a>. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies. He was 82-84.≡ 1 Aug 2005
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Airport Fieldtrip.
Last night, my Dad, Aunt Annette, Cousin Ashlee, and a few other close friends got back from their 10-day trip to the Ukraine with the MBC, and Brian and Jill were there to greet them!
