Monthly Archives: July 2008

Umm…

By david.humphrey | Published: July 30, 2008
So this isn’t good when you’re actually staying in Whistler and need to fly out soon
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Give these guys a hand

By david.humphrey | Published: July 29, 2008
So I’m taking a break from my holidays to attend the Mozilla Summit, and I’m about to crash into bed before tomorrow arrives and finds me still jet lagged.  But I had to pause and say that you can’t imagine a better organized event than this.  I don’t know where to place all the credit, [...]
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On Seeing

By david.humphrey | Published: July 25, 2008
One of the topics that recurs in my philosophical ruminations, dicsussions with close friends, and reading, is that of the importance of inteltionality.  It is who I am when walking, when working in the kitchen, and who I am when bird watching.  I’ve just picked-up Simon Barnes book, “How to be a bad bird watcher: [...]
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Killer Whale vs. Great White Shark

By david.humphrey | Published: July 20, 2008
Last night I caught the end of a great documentary on Great White Sharks.  I’ve watched many of these in the past, but this one was unique in that it featured live footage shot by Peter Pyle from Oct 1997, where he filmed a Killer Whale attacking and eating a Great White.  The shark was [...]
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I don’t have a camera, but I couldn’t capture this anyway

By david.humphrey | Published: July 18, 2008
Yesterday, at my nephew’s prompting, I filled a boat with 3 children and fishing gear, and headed out to the deepest spot on our pond.  “We’ve never got our own pole before,” my youngest squeeled with glee.  “Dad, what happens when we catch a fish?” Within 20 minutes we had our first rainbow, and with it [...]
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<3 Visor

By david.humphrey | Published: July 15, 2008
I just found out about Visor from the makers of Quicksilver, which is a persistent terminal you can invoke via a hot-key combo.  Upon hitting the hot-key, a terminal slides down and fills half your screen.  Pressing the key again slides it back out of view. I *love* this because I have way too many terminals [...]
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Open Source killed the Video Star

By david.humphrey | Published: July 14, 2008
There’s a great post over on boingboing about Radio Head’s new House of Cards video that was created using CC licensed data and open source tools.  It’s really an amazing way to spend 4 minutes.  In fact, I’ll just throw it down right here.
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The Big Tree

By david.humphrey | Published: July 13, 2008
Today was a perfect day, and as with most perfect days, it involved reading, the girls, and a tree.  Mimicing my wife, who has taught me a great deal about how to spend time with our daughters, we packed a picnic and went across the pond to the big tree.  This is a sugar maple, [...]
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“Please don’t leave a message after the tone.”

By david.humphrey | Published: July 6, 2008
This is exactly how I feel: It takes much longer to listen to a message than read it. And voicemail is usually outside of our typical workflow, making it hard to forward or reply to easily. I hate voicemail.  I especially hate emailing people and having them phone me back instead: “Hi, I got your email and [...]
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Explaining the web by cooking

By david.humphrey | Published: July 2, 2008
I spend a great deal of my time explaining to students how to work on the web.  Open source development is as much about working via the web as it is about source code.  Students often have a hard time believing me when I tell them that blogging has value, or that keeping a wiki [...]
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