David McCreath

Run Firefox 2.0 and 1.5 side by side | Muffin Research Labs by Stuart Colville. For both Windows and Mac.

In Drug Test – A Cautionary Tale, Stuart Stevens works with a doctor to see what it’s like to use performance enhancing drugs.

One of the things that’s always bugged me about Movable Type is that there’s no option for the dirify text filter other than underscores. I really dislike underscores in URLs. They get hidden when a link is underlined, some people don’t understand what you mean when you try to spell out a URL with underscores in it, and you have to shift when you type them. Those are all admittedly very minor quibbles, and could even be describe as edge cases, but the fact remains that I don’t like them.

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• Reservoir Dogs 15th Anniversary Edition
  I’m not much of one for fancy DVD packaging, but this is really, really nice stuff.
  (tags: design dvd reservoirdogs)

• dooce: Desert herd
  (tags: desert horses dooce photography photo)

• SizzlingKeys for Mac OS X – Control iTunes from the keyboard using global hot keys
  I’ve been wanting something like this for a while now, and finally got around to looking for it. I often have iTunes playing in the background while I work, and hate having to cmd-tab through to find the program (of which I usually have 8 or 9 running) to pause the music when the phone rings.
  (tags: OSX itunes freeware software keyboard)

Katie and I got to take our second trip to Hawaii in less than a year last week. It was really nice with some spikes of incredible fun. We went to Kauai last December with our free money from the Alaska Permanent Fund. It was my first time to Hawaii, and Katie’s first time since high school. We ended up going again so soon through some luck and generosity.

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