(fallen bicycles, originally uploaded by thoha) There’s really nothing worth blogging when you come back from a vacation to find out that over 100k people are dead due to a national disaster. How to help.
Yearly Archives: 2004
links for 2004-12-31
MOOX Power! optimized firefox builds for various PC processors (categories: firefox mozilla optimize) Inside LiveJournal’s Backend Lots of servers, lots of iterations, just like MetaFilter (categories: behindthewebsite livejournal serveradmin)
links for 2004-12-30
Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata to read eventually… (categories: librarians lis taxonomy)
Temp Signage
The Seattle Public Library’s Central location is amazing, and although you could probably get twice the usable space if the building was conventional, I found it to be a really cool place. There are public spaces and private study spaces, the whole thing can be walked from top to bottom even though it doesn’t appear …
links for 2004-12-26
Flickr is a MMOG | a n t e n n a A good point I hadn’t heard anyone else make (categories: flickr play webapps) My SPGM gallery New for 89: a 20Mhz 386 w/ 2Mb of RAM for only $8499. And the mouse is extra. (categories: compsci computers history)
links for 2004-12-25
On Being a Photographer – Excerpt tips on photography (categories: photography tips toread) So you got a PVR for Christmas… | PVRblog George wrote a great post linking to every helpful link for your new DVR (categories: mediacenter replay tips tivo)
Bell Rock, Jingle!
Jingle Bell Rock sung entirely with the words Jingle, Bell, and Rock, just in time for xmas.
Matt Haughey the elf?
(Matt Haughey the elf?, originally uploaded by jkottke) It’s true. I did some voice work in the 70s. Naw, I’m shitting you.
links for 2004-12-24
The Dude Prophetizes whoa, freaky coincidence in the Big Lebowski (categories: lebowski movies thedude) Relax, Everything Is Deeply Intertwingled: Weblications After reading this post, I’m almost ready to forward all mail to gmail and stop using desktop clients completely. (categories: dhtml predictions webapps) Google humor Shellen is hilarious. (categories: comedy google images)
Santa drives a UPS truck
(Picture47, originally uploaded by davidfg) We made a rule in the house this year that packages mailed to us and still unopened count as wrapping, whether or not the things inside are wrapped as well (we have no way of knowing). You can’t see what’s inside the boxes so it does the same thing as …
A Whole Lotta Nothing 