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Archive for June, 2005

Travelog: To Jen and Back

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Early this AM I drove back into Wentworth, fresh off the train from North Carolina after visiting with Jen all weekend. Nice place, it was. I saw a bit of art, ate some good food, and generally just hung out for a few days.
Also on the docket was a concert by Aimee Mann. She played [...] Read more.

Font Resource

Friday, June 10th, 2005

Over at FileFormat.info there is a pretty cool resource for finding Unicode characters. For example: the inverted Ohm sign. They’ve got character codes, a Java reference, raster and vector files of the character, and more. That’s a lot of data for just one character.
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Aggressive Advertising

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

A few days ago I clicked a link to an Ars Technica article and was greeted by a full-screen advertisement for Vonage. This was not much of a surprise, these commercial breaks are standard fare on many websites today. What did surprise me was the page that followed:

Maybe Vonage thought I missed their ad the [...] Read more.

Microsoft Intelligence

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

I cannot fathom the chain of events that led to this limitation of Microsoft Excel 97:

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Thunderbird Display Errors

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

I had a bit of a problem with Thunderbird under Windows this morning. I openened it up, and was greeted with a mostly-blank screen with no buttons to speak of:

Turns out my profile was referencing some Thunderbird extensions I had mistakenly deleted. Instead of erroring out or giving me a warning, it buggered itself up [...] Read more.