The last C9 wallpaper was a good Photoshop exercise, but a little overbearing to be used as a wallpaper. I needed to replace it with something lighter and a little more feel good. And poor C9 guy, usually has that stoic look on his face. After some coercion and some good music, he started to get …
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...And he/she/they (it doesn't matter) did a hell of a job. Its interesting because not only do thye clean, but they also take a few liberties to nicen up the place. Towels folded into shapes, furniture straightened, they even folded some of my clothes that were on the floor.
Unfortunately, this …
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The place I am currently staying at has housekeeping come in to your apartment every two weeks, which is super nice. This morning though, I was running a bit later (thanks to late night coding) and as I was getting ready I heard a knock on the door.
"Housekeeping."
I look through the peephole to …
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Here's a pretty cool reproduction of the Windows Desktop done completely with CSS and HTML. Complete with multiple themes, including Longhorn, and an XP Bootscreen!
[via w3bbo - "if only my PC booted that fast"]…
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So maybe I've been focused on Channel9 a
little too much, but it sure felt good to take a break.
1600x1200
1280x1024
1024x768
Special thanks to the members of stock.xchng for
the guy,
mic and toilet
paper roll.
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This is exciting. A new animated feature film company called LAIKA was announced yesterday (PDF). You can check out a sample of their work in progress film titled Moongirl.
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This started over on the CH9 forums, but it sounded like something that could spread on the blogs and I wanted to record my answer on my own blog. So here it is:
I just like to create. It may be an efficient data system, a user and data friendly UI, or an animated illustration. I like to take a c…
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I've been following Atom since the beginning, (even suggested a few names for it), and I'm very pleased to see Atom 1.0 making its way towards completion.
So why Atom over RSS? Tim Bray has a comparision between the two written up here. But let me tell you what I like about it:
the overall sch…
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This is how Bill Hill organizes his book collection.
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Jeff is calling for a Sammamish Blogger Meetup.
"great food, free wifi and of course beer"
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Very fun research site called dontclick.it hit the tipping point recently. I really dig the interface work, lots of user feedback on choices made and your index finger gets to take a break. I'm jealous of designing sites with almost a static amount of information to be displayed. It seems like…
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So this is the beginning of my fourth week living in the Seattle area. Brand new state, brand new region, very different from the cornfields of Indiana. But in a good way, a very good way.Let's see we've got -
Diversity - All types of people in all different ways, in the city and at the work plac…
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Its funny. I've been avoiding reading blogs somewhat because I'm afraid I'll
actually want to respond via my own blog. The problem was a sloppy design and
no tools. We'll I've taken care of that now. Actual admin tools and a design I
actually like. Now I can be comfortable re-entering…
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I thought I'd check out erain's new ZAM 3D beta and of course what else would I draw other than the Channel9 guy! XAML Source available here…
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