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“community colleges must, in a sense, be everything to everyone” — very consise description of the problems of community colleges. a very stressful situation.(tags: academia)
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“It’s hard to think about walking away from an incredible stroke of luck without feeling like some sort of cosmic ingrate. But it’s time.” This was a big part of my intense ambivalence about changing jobs, but I’m glad I did.
links for 2007-01-14
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cool-looking, like golf course grass for the roof.
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mmmmm…pho…. Includes recipes!
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“I’m happy to have realized my dream that noodles can go into space.â€
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links for 2007-01-13
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something to try out?
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additional take on the whole Outlook ’07 madness.
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“What would happen if we spent […] 10% of our workweek on touring. In a 40-hour week, we’d spend 4 hours a week exploring the designs of other sites.” What a clever idea! I think I’m going to build that into my weekly schedule.
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I always enjoyed his movie reviews, even if they were occasionally painful to read.
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“living as though success were infinite, behaving with generosity and consideration, leads to more security and long-term prominence than the reverse” — wonderful!
links for 2007-01-12
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“if only we could write a library that abstracted deadlines and obfuscated bosses” — heh. but good points, too.(tags: javascripty)
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could be very useful!(tags: php)
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“The writer, engineer and artist overlap and merge, Voltron-style, to form The Designer.” — sort of a story version of Garrett Dimon’s recent article. That merging of disciplines is one of the things I really love about web design.
links for 2007-01-11
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holy moley. that doesn’t sound good. (has it yet been seen in the wild?)
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from the comments: “Thanks, Microsoft. Once again you prove to be the worst company on earth.”
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sounds interesting
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sounds very familiar. I was both sad & relieved to unsubscribe from UWebD.(tags: productivity psychology)
links for 2007-01-10
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Interesting discussion. (Elizabeth “gave” us a beehive this year for Christmas.)(tags: nonprofit)
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how trippy.
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“We don’t expect that the future might bring us back to the past.” — McGovern on one of the things that makes me happy about the internets: words.
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Yes. Garrett says exactly what I’ve thought for ages & ages.
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finish reading later.
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I could stand some alonetime myself…..
links for 2007-01-09
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I was looking for something else, but I found this.
links for 2007-01-06
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methods that are faster or more efficient. I’ve always had a preference for print(), but it turns out that echo is more efficient. who knew?(tags: php)
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‘By now we all know the benefits of “web standards‒ — ah, if only that were true. But anyway: nice article on the redesign value of standards-based design. I went through this several times at Pierce, and usually only needed minor tweaks to my (te
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so very tempting.
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looks like a likely good reference. (I’ve sent interns/students to their site as a reference many times.)
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“reducing the number of HTTP requests has the biggest impact on reducing response time” — also, about 50% of Yahoo! visitors come in with an empty cache.
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a new year + a new job makes this a good time for me to do this. plus I’m going all GTD this year.
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fun twist on the recent meme.(tags: blogosphere)
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as usual, good stuff.
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Rands has the right advice at just the right moment!
links for 2007-01-04
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I’ve been working with this stuff for ages, and I *still* needed a refresher today.
links for 2007-01-03
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“On Monday, for the first time in nearly 30 years, KTLA’s Stephanie Edwards will be sleeping in” — the end of something that meant a lot to me when I was a kid.