Sample the Web

Samplings from the World Wide Web by C.K. Sample III

Entries for November, 2004

Program Suggestions

I have a lot of data backed up on an external hard drive, but it isn’t well organized and I am sure that the disk is FILLED with duplicate files nested in various folders. Does anyone know of a good OS X program for finding and getting rid of duplicates. I need something that [...]

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Bits and Pieces

Yes, I already wasted lots of time carefully printing out and taping together one of these. If anyone wants to buy me one of these t-shirts from ThinkGeek ping me and we’ll discuss shipping addresses and the like. Looks like MacMerc is waxing a bit Mac fantatic. If you take the time to read the [...]

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Rapidly Ending Semester

Working in academia, my life is partitioned into semesters. I am amazed at how quickly this current semester has flown by and how soon it all ends. The wedding seriously sidetracked my internal semester clock. Two weeks from today is the last day of the class I teach.
As a student, I have a pile [...]

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On Plagiarism

Note to self: Remember this article that you read on the airplane yesterday (by the way, the luggage arrived intact. h00t!). It may prove useful for an assignment next semester.

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Making Money Session at BloggerCon III

I just finished listening to Doc Searls’ Making Money Session from BloggerCon III. It’s interesting, but I am flabbergasted to hear several (!!!) of the people there saying that they make six figures (!!!) from blogging.
I think that I’ve made a total of about $25 from my blogging and I’ve scored a few really [...]

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Nicecast. Nice!

Nicecast looks really cool. If only I had enough time for more pointless hobbies…
Why isn’t there a job for the professional tinkerer and thinker?

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Open Letter to BlogLogic

I just sent the following email to Megan Miller. In case her email no longer works, I am posting this here as an open letter to anyone capable of managing BlogLogic:

Hi,
I joined your site months ago and posted one entry. Since then, I have forgotten my login and password and there seems to be [...]

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Journey Home

We just returned from Mississippi, where we spent Thanksgiving with my parents. It was good to see them and to spend time with them and my brother, but the transportation involved was less than ideal. I do not feel like I received my money’s worth. We had delays on the return, mechanical and weather [...]

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Bluetooth and Motion Updates…

Run Software Update now to download a Bluetooth firmware update and Motion 1.0.1.

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Computer writers?

Read this NYTimes article (reg required). I think… Eh, nevermind.

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2 rules for blogging…

Check out Megnut’s two rules for blogging. Rule number two is the kicker. If I’d followed that rule more closely, I wouldn’t have been forced to entirely erase my longest running blog, c.k.’s (sub)conscious streaming, when it started popping up all over the numerous search engines that do not honor “do not index” instructions.

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iCal 1.5.4

iCal 1.5.4 (7.7MB) update is available via Software Update. Lock and load.

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Gmail POP

Is anybody else having trouble with Gmail’s pop functionality? Mail.app keeps reporting that Gmail is rejecting my password, but when I go in through the web interface, it works fine.

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IMSmarter: Convo with David Weekly

Have any questions about IMSmarter? I had some concerns that I expressed in a previous post. This morning I received the following in my inbox:

Hi! Using BlogSearchEngine.com, I found your blog entry about IM Smarter at http://www.sampletheweb.com/archives/00000128.htm
Our users’ privacy is very important to us, and it makes me sad that you don’t plan on using [...]

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