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E3 2006 Nintendo Press Conference

This is not a proper “end of the school year, start of the summer” post. But it’s sufficiently interesting that maybe someone will want to read it. I saw Nintendo’s 2006 E3 Press Conference, and it’s really cool. They had Sonic and (even more surprisingly, since I’ve only played it as a little-known computer game),…Continue Reading…

Thanks for your help

“Thanks for your help.” I should say that rather than: “Thanks for the help.”

Source Code as Structured Data

This was cool enough that I want to keep it here to think about later. Imagine having an accountant as a client who insisted on maintaining his general ledgers using a word processor. You would do you best to persuade him that his data should be structured. He needs validation with cross field checks. You…Continue Reading…

Today’s Accomplishments

I overslept this morning and missed church. So I’ll cheer myself up by stating what I did. I helped John Shook setup local area network between his laptop and desktop. “You are a genius!” he claims. I helped Bob setup Thunderbird to work with USC email. He had a Symantec firewall blocking access. I helped…Continue Reading…

South Park Elliot

Darren Delaye did it, so I went ahead and threw together my idea of me. I made several variations; namely, this version with hat and lightsabre / lightsaber. Try your own.

SuperGoogle, Amazon, Death of the Relaunch

Today’s interesting destinations: interview with Marissa Mayer says Google’s homepage was plain because Larry didn’t know HTML. I like this photo of someone whose name might be Richard Chen (if I get into photography, I want to take pictures like that). SuperGoogle: when all is known. What’s your blog worth? Doing the numbers on AOL-WeblogsInc….Continue Reading…