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Oct
4
Posted by mark.
I was on the dog beach just north of Huntington Beach in SoCal yesterday and my Aussie Cattle Dog got into it with a bullmastiff bitch. The way I saw it was the mastiff instigated the fight and went after Joey with a vengance. She really looked like she was in it for the kill. A couple owned the dog and we’d been happily chatting until then. She immediately started screaming like a banshee which only wound the dogs up …
Oct
2
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There’s something about Southern California that is totally awesome. I dunno what it is. No, I’m not moving here, I love Seattle. But California rocks too in it’s own special way!
Oct
1
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I take my dev server and my workstation everywhere with me in a single small backpack.
My “dev server” is an intel macbook that dual-boots Linux and OSX. My workstation is a windows laptop. Most of my work is done with the macbook booted into Linux and my windows laptop running an SSH client that I use to write all my code on the linux/macbook. I do this because most of my users run Windows and I can write code in …
Oct
1
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Phil Bogle wrote recently about an awesome image resizing algorithm. I found out via a welsh view what happened to it. It’s been launched as a website called RSizr.com and is also available as a Gimp plugin called Liquid Rescale. It’s really really cool to see this amazing algo take the open source route.
It’s an incredibly smart algo – I tried it on a Google Analytics graph and it shrunk the graph without breaking the line while maintaining the text …
Oct
1
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If you’ve ever visited Nissan.com you’ll know the story of Uzi Nissan being sued by Nissan Motor Corp. Having been sued over trademark infringement before, I know how hard this must have been for Uzi – and how hard the decision to appeal must have been.
Nissan.com is a descriptive name in the case of Uzi Nissan, which means that it’s not a strong trademark (he can’t sue anyone else who is using it descriptively) but he also can’t be sued …
Oct
1
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Kerry and I left last Wednesday morning at 6am and drove to Wells, Nevada and spent the night in a Super8 Motel, the only one in the area that would take our traveling buddies (ziggy the fat orange cat and joey the aussie cattle dog).
The town was a dive. I know this because the receptionist at the Super8 asked what the heck we planned to do there for 2 days. But the next day we drove up to a little …