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Archive for February, 2004

Exposé For Windows

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
Updated 5/8. WinGlance and Powertoys reviewed, and notes on WinPLOSION at the latest review. A review of three different programs that provide Expos� (or Expose) for Windows. Exposé is cool. If you haven’t seen it, it’s worth going down to the nearest CompUSA or Apple Store and playing around with the new systems, just to [...]

Timesucks

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004
Really, this whole tweaking-Blosxom thing is one enormous timesuck, a gaping black hole just devouring hours with nary a burp. Nonetheless: Modified the “find” plugin to show relevant context (i.e., not the entire story) and highlight the matching search terms Wrote sideblog to automatically parse the “links” directory and show them in the sidebar Modified [...]

Duloxetine, Lilly, and Suicide

Saturday, February 21st, 2004
Duloxetine, Lilly, and Suicide This is a story that is going to get bigger: Gregg Easterbrook rails against Lilly[1] in the New Republic, claiming that they have led to the death of a healthy 19-year-old student in Indiana. He makes some salient points, but is probably over the line, especially by his last few paragraphs [...]

Blosxom, That Fickle Flower

Saturday, February 21st, 2004
So, for the past week I’ve been twiddling with my Blosxom configuration; not writing actual content, you understand, because content is really secondary: it’s all the CSS sheets and getting just the right functionality and layout and picking out aesthetically pleasing colors. Content? For the wimps and poseurs. I think that a blog is like [...]

Installing Blosxom

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004
Set up this blog once again, using Blosxom this time. Previously it was MoveableType, which was powerful but also seemed baroque… not to mention that I kept forgetting my administrative password and could never figure out how to get it back again. Frustrating, the second time. Although, to be fair, anything would seem baroque compared [...]