Monthly Archives: June 2007

Safari 3 Public Beta

June 12, 2007 – 7:54 am

A beta of Mac browser Safari for Windows - faster than other PC browsers, apparently.

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RSS in Plain English

June 11, 2007 – 8:18 pm

For those of you who haven’t seen it already: RSS in Plain English (though it doesn’t cover using a software-based RSS-reader).

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complex light switch

June 11, 2007 – 5:52 pm

How Many Engineers Does it Take to Turn on a Light Bulb?

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my approach to cooking

June 10, 2007 – 11:20 pm

dinner - eye of sauron

I tend to improvise when I cook. As much as I’d like to find a good recipe, and just follow it, I really struggle to find something that I’m keen enough to try, and so I often end up trying to think through what ingredients [...]

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decaffagato

June 10, 2007 – 4:26 pm

decaffagato

Spent the afternoon in Grind at cronulla tidying up tonight’s sermon.
I’m probably not the first person to coin this term, but I’ve never
heard this combination of decaf and affogato used before.

Update: no hits on a gogle search for the word. think I’m onto something…

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How to hire the best people

June 9, 2007 – 6:03 pm

How to hire the best people you’ve ever worked with - by Marc Andreessen; Netscape co-founder.

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Advice to churches

June 9, 2007 – 5:48 pm

[justin moffatt] Cites some advice to churches: Anyone new feels alone and stupid! I’ve seen the opposite, though, where people who were greeted felt smothered, or over-visited. Clearly it takes some practice to make people feel welcome when they visit a church.

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bakers edge

June 9, 2007 – 5:47 pm

Clever bakeware - a brownie pan that gives at least two hard-edges to every slice.

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Greek Vocab Practice

June 9, 2007 – 5:40 pm

Simon, from my Greek class has put up a modified form of the end-of-chapter vocab exercises in random order and in normal order, if you’re looking for something to help you revise.
Update: it’s a reworking of the end of chapter exercises on Duff’s site, with one additional feature: if makes you start that chapter’s [...]

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greek font

June 8, 2007 – 2:43 pm

Elegant looking Greek Font that’s still being designed.

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decafalon

June 7, 2007 – 10:54 pm

A friend sent me this definition
Decafalon: (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
I have to admit that I rarely manage to stay on the “consuming only things that are good for you” wagon, but this is my fifth week of decaf, and - apart from [...]

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TV as albatross

June 7, 2007 – 10:51 pm

[bluishorange] writes about the albatross of too much TV-watching.

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shoe ad, with ninjas

June 7, 2007 – 10:50 pm

A shoe ad, with ninjas.

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MailActOn

June 7, 2007 – 9:37 am

If you use Apple’s Mail.app for your email, and you’re sorting things into folders, you should definitely try MailActOn: it’s a free add-on to Mail that lets you create email rules and assign keystrokes to them.
Instead of dragging a message to a folder, you can create a rule that will put the currently selected message(s) [...]

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definitive book of the 20th century

June 7, 2007 – 9:09 am

Announced: 1984 is definitive book of 20th century - good list of books to read through.

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Managing Mail Imperfectly

June 7, 2007 – 9:07 am

Khoi Vinh over at Subtraction writes on Managing Mail Imperfectly - is it better to have a complicated hierarchy of folders, and keep filing email all the time, or to have everything in one place, and just search through it all?

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Mobile Phone for Seniors

June 7, 2007 – 9:07 am

Looks like someone finally has the right idea for the design of this one - a Mobile Phone for Seniors

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Greek chapter 13 - Handing out the evaluation forms

June 4, 2007 – 10:05 pm

Greek chapter 13 - Handing out the evaluation forms

One last chapter of third declension nouns, a handful of subject evaluation forms, and we’re into stu-vac.

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Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

June 4, 2007 – 10:02 pm

Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
It’s a long film, with a lot of action; the number of crosses and double-crosses make it hard to keep track of everything, but just about everything wraps up nicely: if you can stay through all the credits, there’s a tiny window into the post-movie timeline future.

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100 Words

June 4, 2007 – 9:55 pm

100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know, and sadly, I’ll have to look a few of them up.

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