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History of the decade, part 1: 2000

I have had a busy decade. I was best known in 2000 for designing typefaces and I start the new decade running for mayor. Somewhere in between I wrote and co-wrote some books and still publish a bunch...

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History of the decade, part 2: 2001

Yesterday: 20002001Britain was embroiled in all sorts of diseases with its livestock and foot and mouth, blamed on a threat by Telly Savalas in the movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In fact, it...

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History of the decade, part 3: 2002

Yesterday: 20012002The euro is introduced in Europe as the most boringly named currency in the world.   Enron, the winner of climate change awards and a self-proclaimed leader in green energy, and...

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Merry Christmas

I wish all family, friends and whanau a merry Christmas. And god Jul, 聖誕快樂, joyeux Noël, kαλά Χριστούγεννα. And yes, the weather finally looks summery, thank goodness.   Take it easy out there and have...

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History of the decade, part 4: 2003

October: Arnold Schwarzenegger travels to Sacramento to attend the première of Terminator III, only to find himself stuck at the Governor’s mansion. He has been trapped there since.Yesterday:...

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History of the decade, part 5: 2004

Earlier today: 20032004Martha Stewart goes to jail and likens herself to Nelson Mandela. Nelson Mandela says his ANC newsletters had a far bigger circulation than Martha Stewart Living ever did and...

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Are Hewlett–Packard’s webcams racist?

Evidence (hat tip to Tari Akpodiete) that the Hewlett–Packard webcam’s face-tracking feature is racist, and does not like black people:If there’s some whites-only thing going on, then it might not work...

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In the Christmas panto tradition: oh, no, there isn’t! Oh, yes, there is!

As far as I can tell, this is how my experience of getting Vincent Wright’s wrongly deleted-by-Google Social Media Consortium blog restored has gone.   1. Follow the Google Captcha and expect Google to...

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Another bad TV concept idea

With the 1980s in vogue as evidenced by Ashes to Ashes, how about a spin-off of Roger Hall’s Gliding on?   After their department is privatized, some of the staffers are forced to work as civil...

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History of the decade, part 6: 2005

Christmas Eve: 20042005Pope John Paul II dies, leading to speculation that Robbie Coltrane would be the new Pontiff. However, he is too busy making Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, and it was...

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History of the decade, part 7: 2006

Yesterday: 20052006Newspapers scared of declining circulation decide to publish cartoons of the prophet Muhammed, causing outrage and no noticeable long-term rise in readership.    Warren Buffett...

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When Chrysler had world-beaters

Remember when Chrysler made cars that people (even the industry) salivated over? It wasn’t that long ago.   The original, base LH cars went up on Autocade today. It’s a real pity these were not widely...

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History of the decade, part 8: 2007

May: Despite donning miniskirts during her campaign and raising the hotness stakes above what Geena Davis could manage, Ségolène Royal fails to become the president of France.Yesterday: 20062007As...

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Here’s some more evidence for you to delete, Google

Remember this? Well, you would if you’ve followed this blog, and I go on and on about it.   As the last entry on the page, and seeing as Nitecruzr pasted the incorrect code from the Yahoo! cache...

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Unlike Jimmy Carter, some of those peanut growers are mean

Found in David Vinjamuri’s Accidental Branding (one of several books I have still to go through), talking about the founding of the Clif Bar:Gary loved the package, but he was reluctant to name the bar...

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We are running out of time

I posted this on my Tumblog earlier today but it is worth repeating here:I captioned it, ‘We probably will keep thinking this is someone else’s problem till we encounter threats like the Maldives and...

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Research isn’t that important if you write in an encyclopædia these days

Here’s a very good example for why I don’t think Wikipedia can be trusted. Below is a screen shot of a page at Wikimedia Commons, which I assume is where you can submit pictures for Wikipedia. I...

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History of the decade, part 9: 2008

Yesterday: 20072008Raúl Castro becomes Cuban president as the dislike for khaki tones, which hit the US earlier in the decade, finally arrives there.   President Sarkozy fulfils his hot-women election...

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Any how-tos on shifting to Wordpress?

Before you answer that, I know there are heaps on going from Blogspot to Wordpress or to a self-hosted domain.   I wouldn’t mind finding one which allows me to go from a self-hosted blog run on Blogger...

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The newer the program, the buggier it gets: a reminder of departed software

One reason I love working with the NZCS as a client is that they promote professionalism when it comes to ICT.   That brought my mind to software in general, especially if I am to shift this blog to...

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