May
06

Voting To Make A Difference

Just got back from voting in the North Carolina Primary. This is one of the first primaries I remember where NC actually has a voice in deciding the outcome.

For this election I’ve registered as unaffiliated. I thought it was time for a change.

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Posted on: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at 11:21 am
Posted by: Earl Moore
Filed Under: Observations
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May
02

Acrylic Times: A Newsreader That Takes A Page From The Past

Most newsreader applications treat RSS feed articles like email. Acrylic’s Times is a Mac newsreader that takes another approach by allowing you to arrange and present your feeds in “newspaper format.”

(The Front Page)

It even allow you to “fold down the page” to read the details of articles and post.

{ Folding Down, Reading The Details Of A Story)

At the moment I don’t know if this newsreader format is a step forward or backward, but it’s definitely interesting!

I’ll be playing with the demo.

Times v1.0 was just released and there’s a free 15 day demo available for download at the Acrylic site.

[ Images via acrylic ]

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Posted on: Friday, May 2, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Posted by: Earl Moore
Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, Software
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May
02

Dancing With The Yin And Yang Of On-Line Shopping

I’ve been shopping on the Internet for a long time and probably do 80-90% of my general shopping on-line.

I’ve noticed that there seems to be a pattern or cycle that applies to my online purchases.

For months I’ll make purchases on-line and have absolutely no problems with any item I purchase. They will be perfectly fine and reliable.

Then suddenly I’ll enter a period when almost anything I purchase will be defective or broken, even for purchases of items of the same make, type or quality as I’ve bought before. I can’t explain it, but for a period of time I’m a magnet for all the “bad apples in the barrel.”

I’m currently in one of these “defective magnet periods.” I’ve recently purchased four items on-line and have had to return two of the four (I will probably return a third.) These are items that are commonly reliable, but not now, and not for me.

As usually I’ll wait it out, returning all the defective product. The tide will soon shift and it’ll be safe for me to buy again.

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Posted on: Friday, May 2, 2008 at 11:10 am
Posted by: Earl Moore
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May
01

May flowers have arrived!

From April Showers come May Flowers:

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Posted on: Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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May
01

Tweaking Meandering Passage

I’ve spent a couple of hours this morning doing some general tweaking on Meandering Passage.

It wasn’t done as much in an effort to change things as it was to fix minor annoyances I’d been noticing. These were small issues that I’d been mentally tagging with “I’ll fix that someday.” Well, someday was today!

These items included:

Changing and enlarging the content font (making it a bit easier on the eyes);
Widening the main content column slightly while narrowing the two right columns an equal amount;
Changing the way “blockquotes” are displayed;
Moving the “search this site” form to the header from the footer;
Correctly aligning the “Archives” form in the right most column (darn thing had never been right since the day I installed it); and
Changing the header text.

No doubt these are things that no one else would even notice…but to me it was like a ding in my car door that I noticed every time I got in to drive.

If you experience any problems with this site now that I’ve been messing under the hood, let me know.