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Kind of Bloop: Crowdsourcing an Album

“So Chris, what are you listening to these days?”
“Crowd-sourced jazz tribute albums recorded on Nintendo, Sega and Commodore 64.”

Dragon Boat Racing

Sarah and I compete in the Banff National Park Dragon Boat Festival and manage an unexpected first place finish in the division C mixed category.

The New Face of Fonts on the Web

Support for fonts on the web has been a sore spot for a long time, but that’s all about to change. Both Firefox 3.1 and the latest Webkit (Safari, Opera, Google Chrome) properly support CCS 3′s @font-face property.

Renaming files with date standards

Before replacing my  old Motorola RAZR with an iPhone I needed to backup up all of my photos.  Unfortunately Motorola’s naming convention for images is terrible:  DD_MM_YY-hhmm.jpg, if you try sorting that you get all the photos taken on the first of any month grouped together, followed by all those taken the first of the [...]

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Pregnancy: Week 14

The baby is now about 12.5 cm or just under 5 inches, producing urine and actually urinating into the amniotic fluid. It also can practice “breathing” the amniotic fluid in and out of its lungs.

Bird Feeder

Trying out the Bird Feeder plugin for WordPress to syndicate my posts to Twitter.

 
 
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