In which Dina patiently uses our pumpkin carving saws on two large specimens.

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I’ve started uploading a subset of my photos to Flickr.  Here are four from 2009 I’m reasonably happy with, with some commentary. We took a short trip north to the coast in the spring, camping a few nights at the Bodega Dunes site in Sonoma Coast SP. This bird was interested in our activities, although [...]

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Last October, the New York Times was considering extreme yachts: “Today, a megayacht is indispensable,” said Olivier Milliex, head of yacht finance at the Dutch bank ING. “It’s not like 15 years ago, when a yacht was a luxury item.” Hmm. I don’t have one, so I think “indispensible” isn’t the right word. Perhaps “megayacht [...]

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A couple of people have asked me to comment on the Canadian election last week. Although I was up to date with the limited reporting in The Economist, the two to six weeks of latency in my Maclean’s subscription meant I never really connected with the current situation—I was already rather fed up with the [...]

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I can see late nights ahead: there’s a lot of writing to do for work, and enough daytime interruptions and meetings to stop me from proceeding swiftly. Happily for those idle enough to read this blog, this new phase of sleep deprivation means the completion of assorted partial entries—and the release of the various pieces [...]

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Does anyone know anything about a T-Mobile service disruption this morning in the Bay Area?

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I’ve been working on a site for mom’s (and parents or future parents) to share information. High Maintenance Mom is now in beta and I welcome all feedback.

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I’ve been working on the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) website for the U.S. Geological Survey in anticipation of the release of the new Supervolcano movie and I needed to change the coordinates for the logos in our header. As a Mac BBEdit user, I wanted a simple program that gave me the functionality of a [...]

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I was excited to find the ACME heart maker and made myself a heart. This is my first post using WordPress. I thought Moveable Type was easier for picture uploads (when I uploaded the heart, WordPress gave me the wrong location) but I don’t miss the spam.

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blueslugs.com turned five this week. A reasonable time to take stock. The domain’s first days were hosted over the DSL line in our apartment in Menlo Park on—wait for it—a PowerMac 7100 running MkLinux. Since then, it’s been hosted on an Ultra 10, a Netra T1, and finally on a Shuttle, running various versions of [...]

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