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now that i've figured out HOW to integrate my tweets into my blog, the bigger question is, SHOULD i.

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note to realtors: "needs TLC" is not like "Aloha." paint, carpet, minor repairs = TLC. severe foundation damage/structural problems = BMFD

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gah the more WebVisions web site is down, the more i'm wondering if this trip isn't a flimsy excuse for me to visit portland/seattle. heh.

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hrm. surprising former co-workers, unless they read my twitter. (also - not yet sleepytime, forgot about a task for a client. d'oh!)

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sleepytime. big day tomorrow preparing to head to Portland for Web Visions. and an excuse to see SEA + PDX again. been missing the PNW.

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half of the designs i implement make me feel like some kind of wizard. the other half make me feel dirty. today was ... a dirty wizard day.

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am i missing something, or is WordPress' developer documentation woefully incomplete? e.g. http://tinyurl.com/2b8wsr

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peeking under the hood on wordpress. need to make it do some unnatural things. why does this make me miss procedural php?

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just looked at a house which, by purchasing, requires me to buy a tractor and learning about road grading. it's a project i was born for.

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turns out binding is good for books, but not for suspension. (or underwear). suspension fixed, no more clunk. :)

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just booked hotel for Web Visions, and saw the conf email arrive via IMAP before the web page even reloaded. why does that tickle me so?

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G4 running every episode of Ninja Warrior all weekend. oi.

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hrm, google analytics AIR app uses ~20% CPU idle, in the background. how is that an improvement over using firefox?

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Why do i love ham and cheese bagel sandwiches so? Must be delicious irony.

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yay, i have one of those neighbors who likes to point his speakers out the window and play his music at top volume. sigh.

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woke up at 4:45 and gave myself an ultimatum: be asleep again by 5:15, or get up. oh well. at least twitter works at this hour! :)

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things to build into my core components library: 1/2/3/4 column layouts, sliding door buttons, horizontal navigation lists

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heading outside to investigate where the clunk is coming from in my expensive aftermarket suspension.

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i woke up in the middle of the night, muttering... "it's time to round the corners." http://tinyurl.com/2nhprk

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tired. bed. i fully expect to have nightmares about round corners. round corners on EVERYTHING.

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up late doing client work again. i'd feel worse but it's billable.

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Dash Express opens API to 3rd Parties - want trapster now! http://blog.dash.net/ [http://blog.dash.net/]

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after going with me to WebNOB last night, my wife is sending me links about "networking for introverts." hint? you're soaking in it!

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Photo Booth has many creative effects, unfortunately "less crazy" is not one of them.

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i need to add "find whiteboard marker" to my whiteboard task list. then i guess i can cross it off immediately.

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geek task: remote mysql mirroring, via cron tab / ssh port forwarding. prepare for squee.

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hard lessons learned today: put more time into estimates, demand dates and deadlines, say 'no' where necessary. now, find new client. :(

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just got home form WebNOB ( http://webnob.com ) what a great gathering idea. probs to babbledog (http://babbledog.com/) for sponsoring it!

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do designers get to paint the sky in their world to match the impossible form controls they depict in .psds?

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don't try to bend the spoon, that's impossible. instead, try to realize the truth: display:inline obliterates height!

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new friend: overflow:auto for making parent containers clear floats. mmmm.... clear floats.

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the more i think about it, the less i like everyone using B for sliding doors. B shouldn't have position/dimension. "Google does it" is ...

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gah iCal auto adjusted the times for web visions to eastern time. i thought everybody on the west coast was just lazy!

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hah! there goes Time Machine again. so clever. using cron to fire off rsync, or something. but give it a clever name and a cute icon!

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Back to my LG VX8550. Clip from my samsung SCH-a930 broke yesterday, it contracted pavement induced amnesia. :(

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i named the drive i'm using for Apple's Time Machine "OUTATIME" was that predictable of me?

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FedEx'ing a retail box XP to a family member who wants to downgrade from Vista. my, how we're attached to our legacy peripherals!

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Time Machine is slogging all data from the MBP to a firewire drive. *snik* *snik* write/verify write/verify.

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macbook pro was as reluctant to wake up this morning as the cats are. morning reading? Time Machine.

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got a call from a relative trying to read their hometown newspaper but the text is too small. font-size: *px? what freaking century is this?

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home from wedding. unitarian universalists move thru de rigueur far faster than we catholics. including the allotted time for libations.

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put a button-down shirt on for this wedding. realized that since going freelance, this is the ... 2nd time i've worn a shirt with a collar.

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spent the morning driving around new ipswich. afternoon - out to the seacoast for a wedding. portsmouth brewery tonight? you betcha!

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Futurama Friday! "sharks don't look back, 'cause they don't have necks. necks are for sheep."

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if @jeresig spent 7 months porting something, it's probably worth me spending 1/2 hour figuring out what the heck it is.

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billy joel turns 59 today. his wife is in her mid 20s. his next wife will be an option purchased on marrying a yet-to-be-born girl.

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ante meridiem, y'all

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the Merrimack doesn't look quite as angry today.

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[Cat 00897-Aa1] by richard james (AFX) is probably the most beautiful techno song i've ever heard

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do designers have nightmares about square corners? is that the problem?

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