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Woo-hoo! Image support

Shawn L. Morrissey — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:38:00 GMT

Linking to an image is NOT a simple process...

It's In The Trees

Shawn L. Morrissey — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:26:03 GMT

It’s In The Trees! It’s Coming!

Oh goodie.

MyBlogLog

Shawn L. Morrissey — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:36:00 GMT

This could certainly be interesting. Stats on where people are headed when they leave your blog. I’m wondering what the folks who are running this software are doing with all that traffic data…

MyBlogLog

Thanks for Breakfast, Kent

Shawn L. Morrissey — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:12:00 GMT

Kent just sent Duncan and I a wonderful idea for breakfast – a bacon cheeseburger served on a Krispy Kreme doughnut bun. The one that really disappointed me is further down in the article - the hamdog. I can’t believe there’s no pulled pork or BBQ brisket in that thing – what a waste…B-)

Has anyone actually eaten one of these things?

Pocket Phojo 3.0 Launches at Focus on Imaging - PhotographyBLOG

Shawn L. Morrissey — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 23:38:00 GMT

This is like a pocket blog app on steroids.

Pocket Phojo 3.0 Launches at Focus on Imaging - PhotographyBLOG

Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Tribune Kills Anti-Bush Cartoon

Shawn L. Morrissey — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:25:00 GMT

Hey! Look everybody! Banned cartoons! Click, click, click… This one’s damn funny too…

Dan Gillmor on Grassroots Journalism, Etc.: Tribune Kills Anti-Bush Cartoon

Time for a trim

Shawn L. Morrissey — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:51:00 GMT

Oh, it’s truly a blissful morning. Three 1–hr meetings cancelled within 5 minutes. With my OPML file becoming dangerously Scoblized, it’s time for a haircut.

First, save the old OPML file…
Have I read the blog entries (read, not just scanned) in the last two weeks? No? Buh-bye…
Has the blog been updated in the last month? No? Buh-bye…
Is the topic something I’m really interested in? No? Buh-bye…
Is the topic Indigo, development, GTD, management, or finance-related? Uh-oh…
is it a really smart person writing? OK…

So far, I’m down about 100 feeds. MAKE:Blog stays, “All Things Distributed” stays. 43 Folders? Absolutely…

Scoble mentioned NewzCrawler the other day. Cool tool. and I can’t figure out how to import an OPML into the thing. Bummer. Add/Remove Programs…

Movie Review: The Saw

Shawn L. Morrissey — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 05:53:00 GMT

Having a hyper-active 4 yr old running the house limits the amount of time I can devote to good ol’ blood-n-guts movies… Luckily, I found the time to watch “The Saw” this weekend. Oh my, what a great brainf---. Great premise and fun ride exploring what folks are willing to trade. You’re dropped into the middle of a bizarre situation, and slowly the story unravels (both the history and the present) to offer scraps and clues. How does a psychopathic serial killer not commit murder? Great plot twists. This is one of those movies you’ll want to watch at least a second time to put all the pieces together.

And the good news – Saw2 is already slated for release…

Great new MSPress title

Shawn L. Morrissey — Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:24:00 GMT

One of the kind folks over in MSPress just dropped off an advance copy of, “Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for VB and C# Developers”, and I’m having a great time reading it… I’d highly recommend at least a perusal of this one.

My favorite section so far is chapter 19, covering exception handling. I’m one of those who typically assumes all is well until an exception is thrown, so this is great info for me. Other favorites are the sections on COM Interop for us old foagies who still look at the world through a QI interface, and the section on remoting…

Good stuff. Big thumbs up.

fear and loathing and death

Shawn L. Morrissey — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:13:00 GMT

Damn.

Hunter S. Thompson killed himself with his own gun. Poor, poor bastard.

I loved Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas. But that was written thirty years ago.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (an author I loathe, incidentally) famously wrote, "There are no Second Acts in American lives." It seems true enough in modern American literature. It seems amazingly, amazingly true in American counterculture literature.

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