New style

Posted on April 18, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

Just a quick lunchtime hack. Clean2 is the same as the Clean style, but with the menus on the right side of the page.

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You are getting very sleepy….

Posted on April 17, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

Missing a little bit of sleep each night adds up:

“Conclusions:Since chronic restriction of sleep to 6 h or less per night produced cognitive performance deficits equivalent to up to 2 nights of total sleep deprivation, it appears that even relatively moderate sleep restriction can seriously impair waking neurobehavioral functions in healthy adults.”

Heck, they didn’t need a big study for that. They could have just asked me.

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xhtml:body

Posted on April 16, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

I’m with Phil — I still don’t understand what the big deal about <xhtml:body> is for RSS feeds. What’s supposed to make it so much better than <content:encoded>?

BTW, Phil, as far as HTML entities go, if you just prefer to use things like &ldquo; rather than &#8220;, check out my RSS 2.0 feed.

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carvingCode

Posted on April 15, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

Noticed a new site linking here. Back at ya, carvingCode. Let me know when you IPO on BlogShares, and I’ll buy some stock.

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Kids

Posted on April 15, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

So last night, we (meaning primarily our daughter, Mary) were watching the DVD of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. At the end of the movie, we started looking at some of the special features, and Pappy joked around about changing the language track and watching the movie in Spanish. A couple of minutes later, Mary asks us, “How do they scream in Spanish? ‘Aaaaaah!’?”.

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Tax Day

Posted on April 15, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

Later today, I will be joining millions of other Americans who have waited until the last day to file their taxes. Joy.

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RSS Improvements

Posted on April 14, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

I’ve added full-content <content:encoded> article text to my RSS 2.0 feed. Does anyone have any comments on whether I should use <xhtml:body> instead? I generally make an effort to make my posts conform, but every once in a while, I get in a hurry and forget to encode an ampersand in a URL….

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WordPress

Posted on April 9, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

Matt Mullenweg (of photomatt fame) and Mike Little (from Journalized) are putting together a new blog system called WordPress. “New” is a relative term, since it’s based on b2, but it will be interesting to see where they go with it.

I’m still toying with the idea of writing my own blogware….

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50 Million More Historical Documents Online

Posted on April 9, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

The National Archives and Records Administration has put more than 50 million historical documents online. This will be a boon to researchers who previously had to visit the archives in person or phone in a request to have documents mailed to them. Now they can search online via the Access to Archives Database.

via CNN.com

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Slimbrowser

Posted on April 7, 2003 by Dougal Campbell

I haven’t downloaded it yet, but it sure sounds good. Slimbrowser is a wrap-around interface for Internet Explorer. Basically, that means that you get the IE rendering engine, but with a slick new user interface that includes features like tabbed browsing, integrated pop-up window killer, site groups, and other cool stuff.

via Phil Ringnalda

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