Month: October 2003
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Dan Conley is off the bandwagon
Some sobering commentary (Updated URL – permalinks to Dan’s site appear broken) from Dan Conley, the guy who used to run Deanblog.com. Dan does a good job of identifying trends he thinks will be decisive in 2004, and risks he sees in a Dean candidacy/presidency. I disagree with Dan, but want to take more time…
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Don’t fear failure, and you’ll succeed
I finally got to read the article in this month’s ABA Journal about lawyers who go out on their own, and the lawyer most prominently featured is none other than one of my best friends, Erik Heels. Congrats to Erik on the coverage, but more importantly, congrats are due for his success. If you need…
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New Macro with MTMacro – Google queries
If this works, I should be able to add tags to my blog posts, and it will automatically create a linked Google query: Rick Klau. Code for the macro courtesy of Code Poetry, who lists all macros on their site here.
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Feedback on MT-Amazon plugin
I experienced a few problems this morning with the MT-Amazon plugin. It happened while I was monkeying around with my template, so I originally assumed it was something I’d done… but nothing I did to the templates fixed the error. Eventually I found a couple threads at the Amazon.com discussion board that seemed to confirm…
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K-Collector for Movable Type
I was IM’ing with Matt Mower yesterday and he let me know that he was going to be getting me an early version of the K-Collector Client for Movable Type sometime tomorrow. I’m excited about this, as I see K-Collector as an incredibly powerful way of aggregating and classifying content across blogs. See a demo…
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Changes to the blog
I’ve been doing some tweaking to this blog in the past couple days, experimenting with some “Movable Type” plugins to extend the functionality of this site. Some new items: Installed MT-Amazon, a plugin that lets me link this blog to Amazon.com using the Amazon web services API. Without the technobabble, that means that I can…
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Lunch with Jim McGee
Just returned to the office from a thoroughly engagaing lunch with Jim McGee. Jim is every bit as smart and engaging as his weblog would have you think he is. As has become the norm in first-time meetings with fellow bloggers, all of the ordinary “getting to know you” stuff is gone. We already know…
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The Island of Lost Maps
I just finished reading The Island of Lost Maps, by Miles Harvey. It is ostensibly about Gilbert Bland, the con man who stole maps out of centuries-old books stored in libraries around the country. But it’s really just a great read — about the history of maps, the author’s own obsession with maps, the influence…
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Caption contest
Post your captions in the comments. Have fun. And remember, folks… no wagering.
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Picture with Governor Dean
Many thanks to Darcy Evon, CEO at I-Street.com who happened to snap this picture of my wife and I with Governor Dean last night while the official photographer was taking her photo. That one will have us looking at the camera, but Darcy was kind enough to e-mail me a copy of her pic so…