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No WordPress Wednesday this week

Sorry folks, no WordPress article this week.

We’ve had a death in the family, so we’re trying to get ready for some last-minute, unexpected travel.

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Mac bootup sound ringtone for iPhone

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Download: ringtones/MacStartup.m4r
Version: 1.0
Updated: November 19, 2008
Size: 38.9 KB

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This is from an inside joke here at the Microsoft Web Developer Summit, but if you’d like to have the Mac bootup sound as a ringtone on your iPhone, here ya go!

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Weathering the storms

We had a batch of bad weather come through here yesterday. I had seen a severe thunderstorm warning earlier in the day, but didn’t think much about it. But early in the evening, as we were preparing dinner, the warning sirens started going off, so we turned on the local news to get a more detailed status. It turned out that we were under a tonado warning, and the worst patch of it was heading straight towards our area.

We gathered up the kids and sat in our hallway. [...]

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-14

  • Crud. The micro-SD card I planned to put DSLinux on is only 32MB. DSLinux needs 40MB. Guess I’ll have to buy a bigger one next time I’m out. #
  • Wrestling with health insurance companies. What a freaking racket. #
  • The COBRA administrator cashed our (not-small) check on 12/31. But the doctor told us on 01/12 that our coverage wasn’t active. #
  • I want my money back. #
  • Just finished conference call. [...]
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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-13

  • Day O’ Cleaning. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-12

  • Renting some movies for up and the kids. Popcorn for supper tonight #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-11

  • Still tuning my work-from-home toolchain. Trying #Tomboy as a note-keeping tool. It’s like a wiki without the web server. #
  • I think I’m going to un-follow a few people soon. If it turns out to be you, it’s nothing personal. Trying to raise the #tech s/n ratio. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-10

  • @zeldman Trivia: pound-for-pound, lemons contain more sugar than strawberries. #
  • Knocked out some work-related email and IM this morning while I ate some fruit salad. Now to go run a couple of errands before I dig in. #

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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-09

  • Kids are all at school, and I have breakfast and coffee. Now it’s quiet work time. Other than the noise of the cat chasing our dog around. #
  • Power out at home. Going to store for a new printer cartridge. #
  • Back @ home. Power is back. Working again. Yay me. #
  • The #WordPress patch I did several months ago for "Reactivate All Plugins" after you "Deactivate All" will be in the next release. [...]
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Twitter Updates for 2008-01-08

  • Just finishing up the first cup of coffee. Time for seconds… Today will be better than yesterday. Today will be better. Today will be… #
  • @photomatt "position: obsolete" … It *should* be a valid CSS property :) #
  • @jwestfall Did you ever find a linux twitter client that you liked? #
  • Browser tab reaping complete. [...]
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