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  • Danny Dawson 12:50 pm on Thursday, March 29, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    The crocs were discovered during a search by a female border guard, who screamed and ran out of the room, just what border guards are trained to do when they discover contraband.

    - New humor blog to follow

     
  • Danny Dawson 11:56 am on Saturday, March 17, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Discovering new Music 

    Favorite new sound.

    Thanks to my “Soft Indie Rock” station on pandora.

     
  • Danny Dawson 6:10 pm on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Ayon, browser daw ito! 

    Jesse Ruderman points out that Firefox is getting some hate for one of its localizations.

    In the spirit of last night’s trip to see the One Man Star Wars Trilogy, I’m tempted to make an Ewok-localized Firefox.

     
    • claudine 12:54 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Permalink

      For a moment, I thought this post title was in reaction to the movie we saw last night. But it appears to have been posted waaay before we saw “Ang Panama.”

      Ayon = “there”
      daw = “supposedly”
      Ito = “this”
      =============
      Taglish! Whee!

  • Danny Dawson 4:36 pm on Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    A unique and delicate snowflake 

    Pandora has this statement to make about my music tastes: “Based on what you’ve told us so far, we’re playing this track because it features pop rock qualities, a subtle use of vocal harmony, repetitive melodic phrasing, a vocal-centric aesthetic and major key tonality.”

    My name is Danny and I’m an indiepopoholic.

    Thanks to cygnoir for cluing me in to Pandora.fm, which makes Pandora much more interesting to me, even if it does further clutter an already ad-cluttered interface.

     
  • Danny Dawson 2:56 pm on Monday, March 5, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Participatory Government 

    “… is starting a pilot project that will not only post … on the Web and invite comments but also use a community rating system designed to push the most respected comments to the top of the file, for serious consideration by … examiners.”

    Sound like slashdot? Nope! It’s the US Patent Office.

     
  • Danny Dawson 9:36 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Stepped into the SanRio store, walked out with a new pair of bunny slippers and a few pads of cute post-it notes for the office. Neon rectangles were just getting so boring.

     
    • claudine 12:56 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Permalink

      now if only we had a picture of the cute post-its!

    • Danny Dawson 3:59 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Permalink

      I’m actually using them today (the post-its, not the slippers) as we pack up the office for the move.

  • Danny Dawson 7:52 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Attempting Connectivity 

    After reading Tantek’s thoughts on HCI usability, I’ve decided to lower the bar to posting on my weblog by setting up easy access to post from my blackberry. If this actually works the way I’d like it to, you’ll be seeing posts from me more often than once every several months.

    It also means more noise vs. signal to anyone who might be following my blog for intelligent, well thought-out posts, but really, I’d rather this be an outlet for my public thoughts, whether they are or aren’t fully hashed-out. When I first set up my weblog, a long time ago now, I did so with the idea of making it easy for family and friends to follow me. Over the years I’ve waffled all over on what direction I wanted to take the site, but really I just want a communication tool, not a venue for thesis development or publication-quality material.

    So friends: this one’s for you. Let’s see, yet again, if I can actually keep up with myself.

     
    • Halsted 8:30 pm on Sunday, March 4, 2007 Permalink

      Yay, this one’s for me! I’m glad to read it, and hope to see you and Claudine soon!

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