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2006-04-19 :: mike // mac + me + reviews
Full Screen Focus

I visit 43Folders only about once a week now – I couldn’t deal with the cognitive dissonance implied by procrastinating by visiting a site about how to be more efficient and avoid procrastination. I was really glad yesterday to see Merlin’s post about faking full screen mode with a trio of useful apps. I had [...]

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Dear Rady School, you may be dedicated to producing business leaders who can straddle both the business world and the world of science and technology, but please ditch the little animated guy on your homepage who told me that. Also, please read this adaptive path essay on user-centered URL design, and revisit your URLs. Most [...]

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2006-04-02 :: mike // food + reviews
Ingredients: prunes, salt.

If you’re ever at the liquor store down the block and see a tempting new combination of previously unconnected flavors, and you feel a sudden urge, a tug, to buy that bag of Salted Prune Saladitos and rush home, eager to shut the door behind you and experience something alien and tasty in private, stop. [...]

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I don’t have cable TV service anymore. Now I have NetFlix and books instead, and so far that’s working out OK for me – but as much as I can’t handle 300 channels, I would really like to be able to pick a few programs to watch. Thus, I’m cautiously optimistic about getting my TV [...]

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