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This is pathetic.

>"I love the way that these MPAA fools think they can turn this key back into a secret using lawyers." via DF

OmniFocus is looking... just plain amazing. I cannot wait to try this out. It looks like it's going to have the polish Omni is known for, and a ton of small touches that add up to a great experience.

This post made using Flock

This is great... apparently that new Travolta/Allen/Macy movie about men in mid-life-crisis trying to become bikers has a scene where programmer William H. Macy shows off his new tattoo:

I think Chris Wanstrath...

We had an assignment due tonight for SLG 102 at Chandler Gilbert Community College, a powerpoint-style presentation on a topic of our choice. I decided to stick to what I know and research technology trends/adoption in the Deaf community. You can view the presentation online at .

Some have been thinking about how Twitter will become financially viable. This vision is very believable, with Tweets coming from the flight you're tracking, your favorite team's current game, etc. David Chartier of Download Squad offers up some ideas, including a couple from Evan Williams of Obvious Corp/Twitter [via].

Christophe Ducamp posted about a recommendation for a French variation on POSH: CHIC, or'Code HTML Intrinsèquement Classe', which I think roughly translates to "Instrinsically Classy HTML Code". (Idea from Stéphane Gigandet) Sounds good to me!

Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License.

(My French is over 15 years old, so if I screwed up the "Êtes-Vous" will someone please correct me?)

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My two recent widgets, hCard About Box and On This Day In..., are now in the public SVN. Have at it.

There have been a few implementations of this for Wordpress before, but the versions I found were either for old versions of Wordress or the sites were down, so I implemented it again for myself as a widget, and I'm releasing it under the GPL and MIT licenses. Take your pick.

No, my site is not fixed width and skinny because I could not bear to once again navigate the misted, tortured, dragon-infested waters of flexible web layouts. No, it's because I can reach 95% of my audience with a site that is 768px wide. Yeah.

This weekend, Jodi and Adelina and I went camping with a group of families from Arizona Adoptive Families, the physical manifestation of a Yahoo group started 4 years ago as a social/support network for, as you can guess, adoptive families in Arizona.

>can Chris Messina stop moving? i swear, he's everywhere: F, POSH, co-working, Flock, Carbon Offsetting? Chris Messina: "Citizen Advocate" - via twitter

>In music notation, the coda symbol is used as a navigation marker ... and is used where the exit from a repeated section is within that section rather than at the end. Wikipedia - Coda (Music)

Tantek explains more about being POSH.

The hCard Wordpress widget now it's own page. GPL and MIT licensed. Enjoy.

Newly launched: Ivy Architectural Innovations, a website for a small but creative architectural firm (suspiciously run by some guy also with the last name of Ivy) in Virginia Beach, VA.