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Monthly Archives: October 2005

on digital typography

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Today after work I looked through Emil Ruder’s Typographie and decided to start explore digital typography using LZX.
The first thing that I attempted was to reproduce the image on the cover of Typographie using whatever fonts I could find on my system. Maybe I’ll get into creating my own digital font like my friend […]

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blog software update

Sunday, October 16, 2005

ugh. Please excuse the default skin while I’m updating Wordpress from 1.5 to 1.5.2.
I also have to figure out why categories aren’t working as expected…

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25 - dating oneself

Sunday, October 16, 2005

I had dinner with a few folks at a friend’s house and after dinner the five of us sat around talking. Playing in the background was a tape that my friend made of a MTV’s 120 Minutes, circa 1992.
Although that was made some 13 years ago, I still consider much of the music featured […]

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30 - AI and technophobia

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

I started reading DUNE: The Butlerian Jihad by Brian Herbert - son of the author of the original Dune series - and Kevin J. Anderson on Monday night. I’m not yet sure how I feel about the style of the younger Herbert - the book reads a lot more quickly and doesn’t have the […]

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trust your mechanic

Friday, October 7, 2005

I got a bit of a chuckle just now while browsing the headlines at Google News. I guess you shouldn’t just take everything that you read in the news at face value.
“Bush said God told him to invade Iraq, Afghanistan”
Aljazeera.com - 2 hours ago
Bush didn’t say God asked him to invade Iraq, says official
Deccan […]

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indie bands playing corporate gigs, macr annual party

Thursday, October 6, 2005

Last night I went to Macromedia’s annual corporate party at The Fillmore San Francisco with Sarah Allen. Sarah and I both worked at Macromedia before we moved over to Laszlo Systems. I think this is th elast real hurrah before the Macromedia/Adobe merger goes through.
The bar was open, the music and […]

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EFF 15th anniversary, it’s a small world

Sunday, October 2, 2005

I went to EFF’s 15th Anniversary Party. Three founders spoke about their experience founding the organization back when they were heavily involved in the WELL before the Interweb was hip - Mitch Kapor, John Gillmore and John Perry Barlow. (who co-wrote lyrics for the Greatful Dead for 15 years)
Not really knowing any of […]

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