October 2007

Do the work, be invisible

Sometimes a quote just speaks for itself: Did you know, sixty years ago, six young women programmed the ENIAC, the first all-electronic programmable computer? Six young women mastered the power of the ENIAC — an 80 foot long, 8 foot tall, black metal machine — and harnessed its power through an archaic programming interface using [...]

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Google Docs has version control

I haven’t yet reinstalled Microsoft Office on my MacBook Pro, and would prefer to avoid it in any case. So, for a client project I’m using Google Docs to add some information to an existing Word document they sent me. Last night, when extremely tired, I accidentally deleted a few lines of text, but only [...]

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A one-note song while I work

Hmmm, it turns out the bird nearby that has the extremely annoying call is the Pipiwharauroa or Shining Cuckoo: Shining cuckoo song (.wav format). [Via : New Zealand Birds | Birds | Bird Song.] I haven’t seen the darned thing yet, but I wish it could get off that single note.

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Safari 3.0.4 resizes images

Hmmm, I was just looking at an image — NASA – Earth’s Horizon: Airglow above Earth’s horizon and solar array panels add color to this scene of a portion of the International Space Station as the orbiting complex is docked with the Space Shuttle Discovery. I clicked the link to the large version (650Kb) and [...]

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Women in space

So, when do you get to see a bunch of people sitting around the room like this, for an interview? When it’s a live interview from the space station, that’s when. I tuned in to NASA live TV and by chance caught this interview with the STS-120 and Expedition 16 crews, including Expedition 16 Commander [...]

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Can’t wait to try Time Machine

I haven’t finished pulling stuff off my only external backup drive yet, so I’m not willing to erase it and turn on Time Machine. But I’m very keen to give it a whirl. Which really only proves the truth of something John Gruber says today of Time Machine: Apple has made something so effect-laden and [...]

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