Archive for November 2006

29 Nov 2006 2145H

問世間

是否此山最高
或者 另有高處比天高

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27 Nov 2006 2114H

Mint is installed

and I’m seeing some interesting things here. Like any good IA I look to server query logs in order to gain insights on users. So far, it appears people come here looking for info on the Byford Dolphin diving bell accident and when they Google for Gutierrez, Harold Washington, and Council Wars. Which is nice, [...]

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25 Nov 2006 2220H

My “me+HP” & Epson moments

Back to technology and user experiences. I had a great customer experience day. Goodbye Epson Stylus 880. I will never buy another Epson printer ever again. First of all, there’s the chip in each of the cartridges that signals death after a certain period of time has passed, regardless of how much ink is left [...]

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24 Nov 2006 2241H

“. . .you little pipsqueak!”

Today we’re going to take a small break from the banality of user experience, graphic design and video games to give me a chance to vent my spleen about the inanity of Chicago city politics, which I ordinarily wouldn’t do, except that it costs us a lot for this “privilege” of owning property and living [...]

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20 Nov 2006 0721H

2007 Game Consoles for Dummies

You have three choices, and you can choose none of the above, or some of the above. There will be a number of gamers who will choose some of the above but not initially.
Sony Playstation 3: lot of hype on the technology. But we’ve seen over the last six generations of game systems, technology does [...]

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16 Nov 2006 2207H

I belong in the service of the queen

When I think of heaven
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of dying
Lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Render up my body into the burning heart of God in the belly of a black-winged bird
Dont try to bleed me
Cause I’ve been here before and I deserve a little more

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15 Nov 2006 0000H

What I’m listening to, November Update

Love Zoe Keating. Just LOVE. Who is she, you may ask. A very talented cello composer-performer who uses a sampler-sequencer to produce up to 16 accompanist audio clones of herself. The result: intensely richly layered aural landscapes. I heard her play last year, maybe early this year on NPR’s Echoes, a sort of unapologetic, stereotypically [...]

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12 Nov 2006 2314H

XBox 360 problems with voice in multiplayer, GRAW

Not to talk about the frivolous, but I’m allowed since this is my blog.
I have an XBox 360, which friends raved about near launch, and felt some peer pressure (really, quite a lot of armtwisting) to conform since we were going online to play multiplayer co-operatively through the Ghost Recon series and also the [...]

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07 Nov 2006 0545H

Vote your conscience

The Tribune has endorsed the Republican slate of Topinka and Birkett, the Sun Times has endorsed Rod and gang. What is a progressive, much less any free-thinking citizen of this state to do? With the Republicans in power again, can one say that things will be different? No one else wanted to run or could, [...]

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06 Nov 2006 0044H

Adventures in Kansas City, MO

View from Westin Crown Center, KCMO.
This is just one of many photos I’ve uploaded to Flickr, in a set called Adventures in Kansas City. You can see them here, or you can take a Google map/Flickr mash-up tour. The Canon SD800IS is getting quite a workout in KCMO.

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