From the monthly archives: March 2007

Please don’t hurt the Web. Use open standards!

By On March 30, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Now that I’m doing a lot more web dev I feel the pain of this poor animal. For goodness sakes… stop the suffering use open standards!

Desktop images of various sizes available here.

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I got a MacBookPro with two OSes

By On March 29, 2007 · 1 Comment

I just purchased my dream machine. A MacBook Pro, 15.4″ wide matte LCD, 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB Ram, 150GB HD. Plus I got a Microsoft bluetooth mouse that works on the mac very well. My old ibook is still around but happily resting.

One of the best parts is running Windows and [...]

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Graffiti IS Art

By On March 28, 2007 · 3 Comments

Mark Schultz over at the N&O’s Orange Chat blog writes:

Graffiti or Art?
So we sent staff photog Leslie Barbour to shoot a town worker painting over some gang symbols at the Chapel Hill Community Center this morning.

I was talking to Leslie about the story later this afternoon, and she said [...]

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Carrboro Citizen Arrives

By On March 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

We got a Carrboro Citizen newspaper on our doorstep yesterday evening. Its really nice to have it delivered for free. ESPECIALLY when it doesn’t sit rotting in our parking space like the Chapel Hill News.

This Citizen’s paper design reminds me of my Grandparent’s home town paper The Hickory Daily Record. I [...]

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VCU beats Duke in NCAA first round

By On March 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Final Score
VCU 79
Duke 77

I’m a very proud VCU alumni right now. The VCU men’s basketball team did a great job. But I have to admit I didn’t like bball much in college.

Living in North Carolina will change you tho’. As will marrying a Chapel Hill native who went [...]

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One Million Blogs for Peace

By On March 15, 2007 · Leave a Comment

On the right side bar of my blog I’ve put up a badge that links to a really interesting campaign. Its called One Million Blogs for Peace. Here’s some more explanation from their site. You can sign up here. Their blog is here.

The Concept
Between 20 March 2007 and 20 [...]

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead Documentary

By On March 13, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Tibetan Book of the Dead Part 1

The Tibetan Book of the Dead Part 2

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I dreamt we went to Google

By On March 10, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This morning I woke at my regular time. Because it was Saturday I was annoyed. Those coveted hours of extra sleep didn’t seem like they were going to happen. Some how I dozed off. When I awoke again I realized I had just had the following dream.

* * * DREAM * * *
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We Shouldn’t Forget

By On March 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

This new insult to the Weaver Street Lawn community described in the previous post got me thinking we should remember what happened this summer. See this video I shot edited and posted on YouTube. Explanations from the source.

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What is the Carr Mill Mall management thinking?

By On March 9, 2007 · Leave a Comment

From the Orange Politics post Carr Mill gives the finger to Weaver Street patrons Ruby writes:

My peaceful mid-morning trip to the grocery store today was interrupted by the erection of two huge signs in the middle of the Weaver Street Market lawn. If these were at the entrance to [...]

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