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The missing feature

March 3, 2005

I'm very close to switching from Safari to Firefox as my primary web browser. There is however, that one nagging feature that Firefox does not do as well as Safari. Spelling checking in Firefox still lags. It seems like it should be easy, given that spelling services are built in to Mac OS X. My guess is that given the lack of availability on other platforms the development teams have chosen not to use it on OS X. More digging....

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Resting place

March 2, 2005

This weblog will soon reside in a new place. Readers will still access it with the same name and things will look the same on the surface. Behind the scenes it will move to a different computer and a new home on the internet. One of the issues is my current host's inability to deal with a small, yet annoying, issue. They run web-page stats just after midnight. With the software used it produces a nice daily average. Except, since the program is run just after midnight, it averages the 40-50 page requests from midnight twenty past the new day with previous days. Owing to this problem the stats are not very meaningful until near the end of the month and not totally accurate until after the end of the month.

I brought this to their attention. "Nobody else has complained," was the response. So because nobody else has taken the time to point out that either properly configuring the software or running it 30-minutes earlier would solve the problem my business will migrate elsewhere.

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Photos from Field Exercise and Graduation

February 28, 2005

Here are some photos from Graduation and from the Field Exercise.

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Just say no to counter-offers

February 28, 2005

Kevin Shockey says companies should say no to counter-offers. His premise goes double for employees leaving a company. I was with a company once that encouraged me to go get offers and they would match them. Not surprisingly I got offers and resigned, declining the counter-offers.

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Best Oscars yet

February 27, 2005

Chris Rock was the greatest host of the Oscars. Truth be told part of the reason he was so good was how much of he show I watched. Roughly 0%. Nada. The wonderful thing is realizing that I also didn't miss a thing. With the write ups on blogs and the countless retellings that are bound to be included in the news this week I'll be treated to much more than I'd ever care to know.

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Four arrested in Sandy Valley drug raid

February 26, 2005

The San Bernardino County Sun reports four people were arrested Wednesday in a raid of a weapons and drug cache. Karl Turner, 30, and Stacey Coday, 29, residents of the home on Krantz Road were arrested on suspicion of possessing drugs and stolen property. Albert Kelly, 50, and Larry Benge, 30, were also taken into custody after officers reported finding drugs in their possession.

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The echo chamber

February 26, 2005

Dave Winer is concerned with openness and disclosure in the mainstream media. It is disappointing that this morning he posted a deceptive item on his site. The item quotes another source "2WW" - the two way web website. The post on the the 2WW website it is Winer's own writing. Linking to one's own writing while hinting it was said by a third party is dishonest.

This is one of the one of the dilemmas the blogging community hasn't adequately addressed. There are sites that I read regularly and respect the authors, but I don't link to as much because they don't want their name associated with their site. I have decided to use people's names when they are known. If I cannot determine the name then I will use the name of the publication in rare cases.

Winer's post makes it seem to the casual reader as though somebody else said something. The truth is Winer wrote it on another website. The post should have said "I wrote this on 2WW" or something to that effect.

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