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• Hoegaarden and Tivoli as Storm Provisions. We picked up a Tivoli iPAL a couple weeks ago. I’m glad we did. Tonight was the first big storm of the summer - without the Tivoli we would have been without a battery-powered radio. Before the weather went south, I thought a nice Belgian beer would be refreshing in the 80 degree heat. The wind
• Memory Cards are More Convenient than Flash Drives Yesterday, my trusty 128MB USB Flash keychain drive gave up the ghost. Dead. Unrecognized by any machine. I originally picked it up a couple years ago to transfer a large number of files too big for email, yet passed back and forth too frequently for the slow mount/unmount of the iPod. It’s served me well.
• The Elmer’s Glue of Home Improvement  This weekend, Jen’s parents came by to help us finish some projects around the house. The projects we’ve procrastinated for a year now and just needed a dedicated time to complete. The list included: Install crown molding in the bedroom Repair and paint walls in the hall closet Repair and paint walls in the hallway to the
• Planting Flying Meat Acorn Near Photoshop Elements Grave Like most professional graphic designers, my career was measured in versions of Adobe Photoshop. v2.5: I decided I wanted to be a graphic designer. The dad of a high school classmate was one. I went to talk with him about it. He worked out of his basement home office with a view of the lake, a
• gFeed Now More Valid If your news reader didn’t like the gFeed - I’m looking at you, NewsFire - then give it a second shot. I’ve tweaked the gFeed RSS feed and it should be more compatible with validation-hyper-sensitive readers - I’m looking at you, NewsFire. Also, if your reader supports it - NetNewsWire - the audio of the First Crack