While writing the post below, I discovered a feature that I hadn’t seen before on any other producer’s site: The ability to get high-resolution versio…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 10, 2005
The talking tea timer

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I bought this talking kitchen timer a few weeks back, much to the embarrassment of my wife. And myself, for that matter. We had friends over that sam…

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After a system that had been slowly deteriorating since my upgrade to Tiger half a year back, I finally bit the bullet and reinstalled my system.

Glad…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 9, 2005
The draggable toolbar: Why?

Why oh why did Microsoft decide that it was so important that you can drag the toolbars in Office anywhere you want? They can go top, right, bottom, o…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 9, 2005
Public work places

Again, I find myself looking for public places - coffee shops, cafes, libraries - to work from, and again, I find myself at a loss for resources to he…

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 9, 2005
Why they won't go metric
Do you think the reason those pesky Americans won’t switch to our nicely engineered metric system is that theirs just sound cooler?

I mean, “miles” r…

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I am about to move and most likely rid myself of the box that currently hosts my Basecamp SFTP file server, and since I’m a big fan of paying my way o…
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The one feature that I found convenient in Flock is the star feature. A quick and easy way to bookmark a page with delicious. And that’s exactly what …

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Other · Calvin Correli · Nov 8, 2005
Less sleep means less tired
It’s happened before, but it still puzzles me every time. For a couple weeks, I’ve been feeling really tired. I’ve been making sure I’d get at least 8…
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