August, 2004

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Totoro

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
- 4 Comments
We watched Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro last night. It's a story of two young girls with a hospitalized mother and a working father who move to a new neighborhood and discover the gigantic Totoro living under a nearby tree. Don't know how to explain...
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Insomnia Leads to XFN Participation

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
- 2 Comments
Just set up a block on this site with some links from my opml file with XFN rel attributes, then I posted my URL on www.rubhub.com to get crawled. I wonder where this standard/proposal will go. Possibly nowhere, but it might be interesting to have RubHub...
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Discovered XFN

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
- 1 Comments
I find XFN (XHTML Friends Network) via Tantek . What it is... XFN outlines the relationships between individuals by defining a small set of values that describe personal relationships. In HTML and XHTML documents, these are given as values for the rel...
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Seeking CSS Opinions

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
- 9 Comments
Not quite sure what the "correct" behavior should be in the HTML below. What cursor would you expect to get when you mouse over the TD and why? <html> <style> TABLE.tbl1 TD { cursor:hand; } TD.td1 { cursor:move; } </style> <body>...
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Red Whittaker Visits Microsoft

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
- 3 Comments
Dr. William "Red" Whittaker of CMU visited the research room at Microsoft today to talk a bit about Sandstorm, the robotic Humvee , and the Grand Challenge . In robotics, there are of two schools of thought in making mobile robots. There's a top down...
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"What's on Your USB Keychain?"

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
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In the spirit of Apple's old "What's on your PowerBook?" ads or even Gizmodo's "What's in your Gadget Bag?, I ask you what's on your USB drive keychain. Having just popped mine in after some months, I am surprised to find: a C# source file to screen scrape...
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OWA Theme Fun

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
- 2 Comments
Nino Bilic provides the cool images and css for the OWA XBOX theme in a recent entry on the Exchange blog. Back in early 2003 when we were finishing up development on the product and many mailboxes at Microsoft were dogfooding our bits, OWA dev decided...
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US & Iraq Opening Ceremonies Photo

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
- 3 Comments
I came across this photo of the US and Iraqi Olympic delegations at the opening ceremonies via this blog . Thought it was cool and interesting enough to share. Spending most of the weekend watching Olympic coverage. USA basketball comes on in a second...
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Grandpa and Tech

Posted over 8 years ago

by Tosh Meston
- 1 Comments
The other weekend the man who begat mom who begat Tosh stopped by for a visit. Yes, Grandpa might be considered the 78 year old clone of myself in some ways, but when it comes to computer technology he was never current. I was trying to explain the TextAmerica...