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Entries from June 2004

How to make friends and confluence people

June 29th, 2004 · Comments Off

During my third semester at school in Clay Shirky’s Social Software class - my group worked on a lightweight multimedia groupware collaboration tool called Catayst which was a fun project but never ended up getting finished. Since then, I’ve been running across many of these tools - such as Ray Ozzie’s Groove but I [...]

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Tags: Tools

Songs to wear pants to

June 29th, 2004 · 1 Comment

Songs to wear pants to is an awesome site. My roommate Matt just turned me onto this guy - you send him email - he writes you songs. It’s like Eric conveys an emotion but for music - brilliant!

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Tags: Supercool

The Beeb orders you to use Firefox

June 26th, 2004 · Comments Off

Actually, they just mentioned in passing that there is another serious security hole in Internet Explorer and that the US Computer Emergency Reponse Center (Cert) recommends that you should “use a browser other then MS Internet Explorer until the current vulnerabilities in MSIE are patched.” That sounds logical - switch to a browser which hasn’t [...]

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Tags: Tools

Ectoplasmic blogging

June 26th, 2004 · 1 Comment

I was messing around with some tools that you let you easily edit your blog and I’m still a bit undecided. I tried w.bloggar and I’ve been using Zempt for the last few months and it’s been fairly good. The only drawback was that it wouldn’t let me insert the song I was currently listening [...]

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Photographic Evidence

June 22nd, 2004 · 2 Comments

I’ve just finished uploading my pictures from the trip to Japan. Check them out here.

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Tags: Images