Monthly Archive for July, 2004

Sat
Jul
31
2004

Making roads appear more dangerous cuts speeding and accidents 0 cmts

Making roads appear more dangerous cuts speeding and accidents

Circus tiger escapes, causes scare in NYC 0 cmts

Circus tiger escapes, causes scare in NYC

Breaking up through PowerPoint 0 cmts

Breaking up through PowerPoint – And he mentions Tufte!

Fri
Jul
30
2004

30 July 2004 0 cmts

Washington DC for the weekend!

Thu
Jul
29
2004

Propane: the next major religious movement? 1 cmts

Propane: the next major religious movement?

Matt discovers the evils of web filters 0 cmts

Matt discovers the evils of web filters – I’d say its a problem that no one cares about these things until they see their own site blocked, but that’s not as much of a problem as it sounds, since normal, useful sites are so frequently blocked.

Meg laments the death of the New York coffee shop 0 cmts

Meg laments the death of the New York coffee shop – On my last day in the city we went to a coffee shop for a quick meal, but I don’t feel like I got the true experience.

How to really disable Internet Explorer 0 cmts

How to really disable Internet Explorer – And, get this, Windows Update will continue to work!

Tue
Jul
27
2004

27 July 2004 0 cmts

Watching Spider-Man 2, which rocks, avoiding The Confusion, which is boring, finding quarters for some much-needed laundry, doing the same old same old at work. Washington DC on Friday! And if Peter Parker can be satisfied with his life, I can certainly (try to) be satisfied with mine!

Mon
Jul
26
2004

New MREs can be activated with urine 1 cmts

New MREs can be activated with urine – In case you lose the salt water packet, Adam.


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