Published June 26th, 2007
in music.
It’s morning. I boot up the pc and right after the inital daily processing of email messages I launch the last.fm player. On some days music is an afterthought. Other days almost require the rhythmic inspirations brought on by quality music. The player’s still trying to get station information. Hmm…server must be busy.
Rather than wait […]
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Published June 18th, 2007
in food.
Ahhh, summer. Warm sunshine. The alluring smell of soothing ocean water. Fresh strawberries. Juicy watermelon. Grilled corn-on-the-cob. Yes, summer to me doesn’t just mean hot weather and beach getaways. It also means the arrival of some of my favorite in-season fruits and vegetables. What I really look forward to is the opening of local farmer’s […]
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Published June 15th, 2007
in meta.
Numerous blog advice articles and posts recommend establishing a blog with a very narrow focus or niche. If you’ve read some of my posts you already have noticed that I can write about a variety of different topics. Quite frankly, what I’ve written is still much more narrow in scope than the number of topics […]
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Published June 12th, 2007
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. ~Lewis Mumford~
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Published June 9th, 2007
in meta.
For the first couple of months, I had been treating categories as tags. In general, a post should fall under one category but may be assigned multiple tags. I did classify those early posts into multiple categories. I’m going through now to reclassify those respective posts into single categories. Since it is early enough in […]
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Published June 4th, 2007
in geospatial.
My previous post mentions CAD files. Not everyone has a couple of thousand spare dollars to pick up industry standard CAD applications. Not everybody needs expensive software, either.
Cumulate Draw is probably more of a Visio replacement than a CAD replacement. It’s certainly not as powerful as, say, Autodesk Architectural Desktop. But if you don’t need […]
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Published June 1st, 2007
in geospatial.
The CADDManager.com Blog presents a list of interesting questions when dealing with client-provided CAD files. Well-intentioned clients who share these files to help begin a design could actually raise red flags with their respective contractors. One potential question the CADD Manager recommends is
Do you verify all dimensions or just accept the files as being right […]
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