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Entries from August 2004

Top 5 Movies of 2004 (so far)

August 30th, 2004 · No Comments

Garden State
I just got back from seeing this amazing movie. Garden State, directed, written, and starring Scrubs actor Zach Braff, is a story about an actor who returns to New Jersey to attend his mother’s funeral. During his short stay in town, he meets up with some old school buddies and an habitual liar, [...]

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Tags: Movies · Top 5

GmailFS

August 30th, 2004 · No Comments

I wandered accross this while reading Slashdot this morning:
GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. GmailFS is a Python application and uses the FUSE userland filesystem infrastructure to help provide the filesystem, and libgmail to communicate with Gmail.
Edit: Apparently this is blocked already. You could sign up [...]

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Tags: Google

SafariSage 0.1 released

August 24th, 2004 · No Comments

SafariSage is a css theme for the Sage RSS/ATOM feed agregator.
To use, Download SafariSage and extract it somewhere. Load up Sage and go to the Options, select Use Custom CSS file and select the sage.css file that you extracted. Enjoy.

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Tags: Programming

Todays Random Linkage

August 23rd, 2004 · No Comments

ColorMatch Remix – A very neat Javascript tool which you can use to choose a nice color scheme for our webpage. Culled from Sarah Lane’sblog
Noam Chomsky’s Weblog – One of the forerunners of linguistics. Some very nice articles.

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Tags: Random Linkage

WP-Photos Plugin

August 23rd, 2004 · No Comments

I just installed Alex King’s WP-Photos plugin.
This particular photo was taken from the roof of my apartment building in June when a particularly strong (ie. tornadic) set of thunderstorms barreled through southeastern Wisconsin.

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Tags: Photos · Site updates

New Default Theme (again)

August 23rd, 2004 · No Comments

Some more testing and a little css tweaking to get the main text to wrap around the main menu and a little css hack to make IE use crappy gif images instead on nice png images and the new default style is ready to roll.

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Tags: Site updates

Awaiting DVD releases

August 20th, 2004 · No Comments

Here are a few dates to look forward to:
9/7 – Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…And Spring – A story about a Buddhist monk which covers the span of his entire life. I missed seeing this one in the theater by a day.
9/14 – THX 1138 – A George Lucas Classic.
9/21 – Original Star Wars Trilogy – [...]

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Tags: Movies