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General
2006-01-30 :: mark

I would be lying to myself if I thought more than one person read this blog. Okay, two, because I read my own blog to check for typos (of which there are plenty). I am candidly ignoring the advice of Brian and not spell cheeking. We’ll see how that goes.
At any rate, I thought it [...]

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Software
2006-01-27 :: mark

I know you’ve heard it a million times: FireFox leaks memory. It does not “consume a lot of memory”, nor does it “just consume as much free memory as your system has, but relinquishes it to apps that need it”. No, it leaks. How many times have you felt, “geez, my system is craptacularly slow…” [...]

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2006-01-24 :: mark

Watching the Golden Globes the other night, I was stunned when I saw this guy present some award. No one except those that watched Gilmore Girls back in 2001 has ever seen him before. Holy Jeebus! I don’t know if you were a big fan of the Superman movies with Christopher Reeve playing the mild-mannered [...]

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General
2006-01-24 :: mark

I was talking with a friend about the accuracy of the fab scenes in Apple’s new Intel ad [QuickTime needed] (okay, geek foul, I know), which of course, led me to a Google search. Three hits down and lookie-here! Apple rips off the Postal Service video for “Such Great Heights”? Oh, I love it. Does [...]

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General
2006-01-23 :: mark

Somewhere near the Cambridge / Somerville border. Truly awesome.

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