Published on Wed Oct 31, 2007, 2:48 pm .
Gridskipper put together a nice feature on our neighborhood in Brooklyn, including a snarky comparison:
I’m not sure that I agree with this – we chose to live in Brooklyn over Manhattan, and I would argue that the neighborhoods to the north (Cobble Hill and Boerum Hill) are probably more fitting equivalents. Also, with few exceptions, Carroll Gardens is still very much a family neighborhood. Sure, it might be changing, but take a walk down our street during the day, and you’re going to see a lot of old men who’ve lived there for 50 years, as well as kids playing on the sidewalk. Err, maybe that is what the West Village is like.
Still, can’t deny that Carroll Gardens is awesome, and relatively affordable, considering the restaurant and bar options – we rarely make it into the city on weekends.
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Published on Tue Oct 30, 2007, 7:14 pm .
Lower Manhattan
Had a lovely walk along the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, on a fall day. [from iPhone]
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Published on Sun Oct 28, 2007, 11:51 am .
I know what bus I’m taking now, whenever I need to get to Boston or DC:
Free wi-fi and a guaranteed seat, for $40 round trip? Done.
More at Vamoosebus.com.
Published on Sat Oct 27, 2007, 1:10 pm .
timothytipton.com is using a slightly modified version of my K2 stylesheet, without atttribution.
The post layout is the same, and he’s using the same exact sidebar modules, in exactly the same arrangement. His CSS is full of my custom selectors/classes, and is still hot linking to images on my domain.
It’s one thing to take someone else’s work, pick it apart, and learn from it. It’s quite another to just take someone’s work, remove attribution, and tweak it just enough so that it has your name on it.
My site is built-off of the K2 framework, which is the work of a lot of excellent designers and developers. The difference is that I’m upfront about attribution, AND, I’ve taken the time and care to fashion something new.
So, Timothy, might I suggest reading Greg Story’s post on How to properly steal the design of a website?
I ran a diff on the two stylesheets, and took some screenshots:
Published on Thu Oct 25, 2007, 6:10 pm .
I am an avid hockey fan, since I was a kid growing up in Buffalo. I love watching the game, and I especially love watching my hometown team, the Sabres. For the past 2 years, I’ve forked over $150 to subscribe to the NHL Center Ice cable package, so that I can watch every game of the season. With our TiVo, I can record each game, and watch it whenever I have time.
That is, I did, until this season started. We recently upgraded our TiVo unit from an old DirecTiVo, to the new Series 3 TiVo HD, which apparently implements unnaturally strict copy protection on premium content. Because the new unit utilizes CableCards, TiVo has different rules for these TiVos as compared to Series 2 units, according to their support page:
Since the Series3 and TiVo HD are DCR devices, in addition to the Macrovision rules for analog content, they must also comply with the content protection policies for Digital Cable content.
What this means is that NHL Center Ice content is copy protected, and will be deleted within hours of the game’s completion. Gone. Irretrievable.
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Published on Wed Oct 24, 2007, 5:29 pm .
Via the Official Google Blog:
- Gmail adds IMAP support
“Are you guys ever going to do IMAP?” Well now I can say: Yes. Yes, we are doing IMAP. In fact, we are doing it for you for free on all devices and platforms.
This is great news, especially for iPhone users, (instructions here). Now, you can keep your mail account synched between multiple computers and devices.
UPDATE: Derek makes a good point about some advanced mail settings on the iPhone – make sure to align your Drafts, Sent, and Trash folders.
Published on Sun Oct 21, 2007, 10:51 pm .
We went Apple Picking upstate, in Warwick, NY. Jason and I discovered something more challenging than chucking apples at each other – spearing them with a stick, and then attempting to fling them at each other. The one pictured above is bouncing violently towards me.
It’s been 3 years since we last went apple picking.
More below the fold. [from iPhone]
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