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Design depends largely on constraints.” — Charles Eames

Wednesday, March 30 2005

Memory, Sweet Memory...

Just added a 512M module to the Powerbook for a total of 1G (was 768M), for a pittance — $79! — courtesy of Amazon. Everything’s much snappier, especially Eclipse; I...

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Friday, March 25 2005

Site Updates

After a deeply wounding comment about this site’s design from SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHO THEY ARE last week, I’ve refreshed the mnot.net stylesheets and front page design. OK, truth...

Monday, March 21 2005

Nevermore

A while back, I wrote up a description of a pattern for avoiding messages like “click submit only once.” I didn’t do much after that, because I’ve been a...

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Thursday, March 17 2005

Sparta.py 0.7

I’m happy to announce that version 0.7 of sparta.py, a simple API for RDF, is now available. As always, feedback and suggestions are appreciated. My goal for this release...

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Travel Warning

I personally like Airbus planes, especially the A340, but Risks Digest has given me a reason to avoid some of them; [A]fter (an earlier) disaster, more than 20 American...

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Saturday, March 5 2005

More notes on the Bay area housing market

Carlos sent me an interesting summary page about the Bay area housing bubble. I wish there were more links substantiating the assertions there (a few ring false), but it is...

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Wednesday, March 2 2005

Using XML in Data-Oriented Applications

So, you’ve got some data that you need to give to somebody else, and you want to use XML to do it; good for you, you’ve seen the light...

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