Month: April 2006
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Overheard in Naperville
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At the kids barber shop, heard this: “She says she’s a Christian, but there’s no way. And besides, she’s asking me for a divorce, the least she can do is…
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The banality of evil
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The blog of the individual who killed a 10 year-old girl, is here. It would seem that these posts (1, 2, 3, and 4) suggest that he was lonely, didn’t…
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links for 2006-04-16
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NBC-iVillage Term Sheet: Six Serious Bidders; Hearst Issue Predominant | paidContent.org (tags: Hearst iVillage NBC media) Chicago Tribune | Bush: `Full support’ Maybe “full support” is just this month’s “heckuva…
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Jot Family Sites
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That’s a little eerie… last night I wrote about familyware, and today Steve Rubel points out that Jot is offering one-click family sites. Doesn’t look like they solve the syncing…
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Google Calendar: Familyware?
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I love – and I mean love – Google calendar’s interface. It’s just right. And Charlene Li’s observation that it’ll help her with planning a kid’s play date hits on…
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WordPress, 24 hours in
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Quick update on my transition to WordPress… this has by far been the smoothest conversion between blog platforms. (By comparison, converting from Radio to Movable Type took a couple of…
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All politics is local
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It recently came to my attention that someone who I’ve known for over 3 years is insisting that I’m working hard to undermine efforts to build a strong Democratic Party…
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Blogs as conversations
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Just caught this 2 week-old quote from Mark Beese: Rick Klau once told me that blogs are an online, two-way conversation about ideas. I am surprised, and very pleased, to…
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Switching to WordPress
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For those who care about such things, I migrated this blog from Movable Type to WordPress. Why the switch? For starters, my MT install was starting to accumulate quite a…
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Reading Barry Eisler’s Rain Fall
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Thanks to Brad’s glowing review of Barry Eisler, I picked up Rain Fall yesterday and am already engrossed. Eisler’s got an easy style, and speaks with authority on everything from…