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Archive for April, 2005

links for 2005-04-30

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on Sat Apr 30, 2005, 1:18 pm
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links for 2005-04-29

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on Fri Apr 29, 2005, 1:18 pm
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Fat-kins Diet

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on Tue Apr 26, 2005, 1:29 pm
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I’ve been on a high-protein diet for about 6 months, and I’ve dropped about 22 pounds since, and I feel much healthier, etc.

Still, this “Neurotically Yours”:http://www.illwillpress.com/vault.html flash animation makes me laugh: “Fat-kins Diet”:http://www.illwillpress.com/fatkins.html

links for 2005-04-26

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on Tue Apr 26, 2005, 1:19 pm
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Reboot

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on Mon Apr 25, 2005, 10:34 am
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Well, it’s been a _long_ time since I’ve done a major overhaul of this site’s design… Though this site has looked very much the same for more than 2 years now, a lot has changed “under the hood”. I’ve “converted”:http://nedward.org/archives/001729.php it from a tables-based layout, to a “transitional CSS layout”:http://nedward.org/archives/002030.php, keeping the design mostly intact. I even got close to “validation”:http://nedward.org/archives/002732.php.

But, Nedward.org is long overdue for a _visual_ update — so, I have taken a chance, and thrown my hat into both the May 1st “Reboot”:http://www.may1reboot.com and “CSS Reboot”:http://www.cssreboot.com. The design is ready to go, after almost a year of start-and-stop work… but, I have no idea if I can have it live by Friday morning. ::fingers crossed::

Are you redesigning?

*** May 1st Reboot suggests shutting down sites today, April 25th, to manufacture some dramatic effect… However, I’m not comfortable doing this, so I’ll keep this up, at least until I start uploading the new site.

Poor Man’s TiVo: BitTorrent & RSS

Published
on Sun Apr 24, 2005, 11:56 pm
in tech and tv
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I know a lot of you cats have “TiVo”:http://www.tivo.com/, but I thought I’d share my favorite method of downloading our favorite TV shows, _sans TiVo_…

“BitTorrent”:http://www.bittorrent.com/ is awesome, as everyone knows… but, I _hate_ having to continuously scan the tracker sites for the shows I want, and then, I _hate_ waiting for them to download. Wouldn’t it be great if you could tell your BitTorrent client what shows you want, and it would download them automatically?

Why, yes. That is the point of my post.

By using the java client “Azureus”:http://azureus.sourceforge.net/, in combination with its “RSS plugin”:http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_details.php?plugin=RSSImport, you can. I’ve been “using this”:http://nedward.org/archives/002778.php for a couple of months, and I couldn’t be happier… especially when travelling. When we flew to Buffalo last month, I quickly grabbed a couple episodes of the “Simpsons”:http://www.thesimpsons.com/ and “Viva La Bam”:http://www.mtv.com/onair/dyn/viva_la_bam/series.jhtml. Instant airport entertainment.

The details are available in thispost: “How to never miss an episode with BitTorrent and RSS”:http://pealco.net/archives/2004/11/08/how_to_never_miss_an_episode_with_bittorrent_and_rss

links for 2005-04-23

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on Sat Apr 23, 2005, 2:15 pm
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