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Entries for February, 2005

Amp Conversion Question

Reader, Graham Newton, writes asking:

I am thinking of bringing my amp to the UK in my move there (Kent). Obviously I need to address the power issue, can you help? I am hoping to replace the power transformer with a correct 240v item. I understand the current Fender replacement transformer is adaptable [...]

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Coffee Makes Me Live

Jet-lag sucks.

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Self-employed blogging

Read this, Wired News: Quit Your Job to Blog, Blog, Blog:

As for earning a living, Kottke has a plan for that, too. His readers will support him. At least he hopes they will. Kottke does not intend to seek advertising revenue; he plans to depend solely on reader contributions.
On Tuesday, Kottke posted a letter asking [...]

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Jef Raskin, lead designer of the Macintosh, dies

Jef Raskin died on Saturday:

MacCentral: Jef Raskin, lead designer of the Macintosh, dies
Jef Raskin, the lead designer of the first Macintosh computer and a pioneer in the development of user interfaces, died Saturday at age 61. He had been diagnosed recently with pancreatic cancer, his family said in a statement.

Sad.

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Google Maps now supports Safari

Check it out: macosxhints - Google Maps now supports Safari. Huzzah!

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Mini Review of Hawaii

I’m back from the honeymoon, and I will most likely have a much longer post about Hawaii later on this week, but in the meantime, I thought I’d share with you all my wife’s mini review of Hawaii.
Kristin: “Hawaii: It’s nice. . . but over-priced.”
I think we may try to design and sell [...]

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iPodFolderOpener back online…

Just got an email from Guido noting that the link to iPodFolderOpener had died somewhere during the update of the site. In any case, it is fixed and working again. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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First iPod Shuffle in Hawaii?

I doubt it, but I thought that posting this picture would be a good gloat point. Yes, I have an iPod Shuffle. It’s the 1GB. And, yes, I am in fact in Hawaii where the skies are that blue. We just moved from Kauai to Maui today. The new hotel has [...]

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See you all in March

I’m off on my honeymoon all of next week. Tomorrow will mostly be spent running around doing the last minute things that need to be done before we skip town, so I doubt I’ll have the time to blog anything here. There’s a slim chance I might re-emerge here on Monday, the 28th [...]

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Witch

Check out Witch:

Have you ever wanted to switch to a certain window — not just the application it belongs to? While you can use Exposé to switch windows, doing so can be very clumsy if you’re the keyboard-only type of user. And don’t all of these windows look just the same when they are scaled [...]

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NetNewsWire Lite Beta

I’ve been using the new beta of NetNewsWire Lite over the past week or so, taking advantage of the new Bloglines compatibility. Unfortunately, every other time it syncs with Bloglines, it crashes. Same for the non-Lite version. Back to the Bloglines web interface…

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Microsoft Office: 2004

I finally have the full professional version of Microsoft Office: 2004 complete with Virtual PC. I’ve had the full Office suite sans VPC, but now I have the full meal deal and will report back if there is anything stellar that I notice. I know I like the new Word better than the [...]

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Things to do before the day ends…

Pay bills.
Pack for Hawaii.
Create a nice away message.

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Port 25

Jeff Jarvis complains about the cable company blocking port 25 for any traffic other than their SMTP servers. This happened to me a while back, and it still ticks me off.

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