Category Archives: technology

my aging infrastructure

Posted on Saturday, 2003 September 20 by Anton

I was not distressed to learn that this Power Mac 4400 (bought in 1997) is too old for MacOS X – until I found that Mozilla is not available for MacOS 8.

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can’t beat the title

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 September 10 by Anton

Black Man With A Gun — Firearm Activist of Color

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how special.

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 September 03 by Anton

They tell me that all SprintPCS telephones in areas 41x are having trouble today. (Mine, in 415, does not ring; but I can call out.) I wonder whether it’s a bug in 411 service (Directory Assistance).

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my clutter is functional, dammit!

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 August 26 by Anton

I’m surprised to find that I haven’t linked this before: The Social Life of Paper by Malcolm Gladwell This idea that paper facilitates a highly specialized cognitive and social process is a far cry from the way we have historically … Continue reading →

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don’t believe everything you download

Posted on Friday, 2003 August 22 by Anton

Greg Apodaca’s Digital Retouching Portfolio. Some of the examples are startling. (Link from B3ta.)

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damned Redmond again . . .

Posted on Monday, 2003 August 11 by Anton

So this personnel agent asks me to add some items to my résumé and mail it to her. No sweat. I keep the thing in HTML, because it’s convenient and relatively efficient. But when my agent gets it, oh dear, … Continue reading →