Archive for January, 2007

Credit Cards are teh devil!

Saturday, January 20th, 2007

My family has raised me to not rely on using credit cards.  I have stuck by this and I do not intend on applying for a credit card.  When I buy something I have the money in my bank account ready to spend.  Just now I was reading some articles at Yahoo Finance and it […]

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Gonna see the D!

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

February 13th 8pm- 10pm 2007. Tenacious D at the Arlington Theater (1317 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101)
Tenacious D live at the Arlington Theater in Santa Barbara, CA! Tickets are $40.00. This is the only California tour […]

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Ackoff’s Best: An Introduction to Systems Theory

Saturday, January 13th, 2007

Systems have always been a topic of interest to me ever since studying sociology because it changed the way I look at and understand my environment. To further educate myself on Systems, Systems Theory enthusiast Jeff Lindsay recommended “Ackoff’s Best“, by Russel L. Ackoff. This book is a compilation of Dr. Ackoff’s writings […]

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DIY: Camera Repair

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

I’ve been having this problem with some of the pictures I have been taking on my Sony DSC-P200. If I zoom in too much I start to see specks of dust in my pictures. I figured the lens was dirty, so naturally I cleaned it and the specks of dust were still there. […]

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iPhone: The Microformat Killer App?

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

We have all heard the exciting news regarding the official announcement of Apple’s iPhone. If not, check out the stevenote on Apple’s website. I know it sounds cliché, but it is truly a revolutionary product in all sense of the word. This product will change the way we use our mobile […]

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The Areas of My Expertise

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

I heard a while back that John Hodgman’s book “Area’s Of My Expertise” was available for free on iTunes. For those of you not familiar with Hodgman, he appears on both “The Daily Show” and the “Get A Mac” Apple commercials. If you want me to be more specific, he’s the one in […]

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Operator 0.6 Released!

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

Michael Kaply emailed me today to announce the release of Operator 0.6. Here are a list of changes (taken from his site):

Performance Improvements - I’ve done a few things here. The main thing is that I was going through the document’s DOM one time for each microformat. I’ve reduced that to one time for […]

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