initial meeting
Just returned from an initial meeting with BO, president of the Owens Group (extant site: http://www.owensgroup.com/). I arrived late, owing to a particularly long Shacharit service (with Hallel and Hol HaMoed due to the sixth day of Pesah). But thankfully...
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captioning and capturing
All of the large images are processed and on the server, but the captions and click-throughs haven't yet rolled-out (the javascript status messages, and pop-up loader makes the manual coding a bit tedious (must brush-up those RegExes!)). Need to get...
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Learner permit photo
I actually quite like my DMV photo — isn't that a rarety? I had half-an-hour waiting online to get my photo taken, so I had plenty of time to meditate on being photographed. I've removed my ID number and another...
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björk's unity video
about three weeks old (i'm slow), BG stuns me again with her beauty and honesty and poise: her latest video caccoon. so bold, honest, precise. makes me want to lock myself in a room and make music. and pay for...
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inauguration
I've been thinking about keeping a yoga journal for a while. Rather than get bogged down in semantics and the technology, I'm going to just start writing. I'm hoping that by keeping this journal, I'll be able to learn more...
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fear of self-support
looking how to spell adho mukha vrksasana lead me to yogajournal.com they have very useful step-by-step instructions for many poses. easily navigable layout. too bad there aren't more pictures. Played in bakasana (crane). Found questions of self-support, self-balance. can hoist...
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promotional brochure, mailing and web resource
Met with ALL today at his house (offices closed for the holiday). Discussed mailing requirements: cover letter bi-fold promo flier cd-rom w/video program menu 1. cover letter Self-explanitory. Will be written once mailing is complete, to accurately reflect the contents....
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initial discussion with MM
An ebay-esque (without the auctions) site for vinyl enthusiasts to learn about, buy, trade, or sell records online. Including label scans, previous owner info strengthens community and product value. Free to buy or trade; annual or micro-payment scheme to sell...
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Balancing body and brain
This came to me during utthita hasta padangusthanasa: I must choose to face my instability, embrace it and converse with it, in order to find strength and comfort in balance. Also, I felt a distinct "harmoniz[ing of] the two hemispheres...
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Engagement
Walked RO through the whats and whyfors of information design and my proposed methodology. The meeting went well, and we shook on working together. I shall invoice him for the project initiation fee and schedule a visit to the NJ...
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Getting content into MT
There are only about 20 (of 180+) poems in the movableType content management system, and about half of those have incorrect date information. It'll take a while to get all the content properly formatted and into the system, but if...
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Making headway
Finally made considerable (tangible) progress on the re-design. I'd whimped-out on the concept, but FPJ and PH restored my faith in it; it's seeming working well. It's amazing how much time three templates can take, but I managed to make...
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Product placement, off-site links, and MT archiving
I managed to get the product index positioned correctly by reducing the overall table width to 400px. It still looks good at this resolution, and prevents the content div from clearing thenavigation div. I added two reviews to the influences-links...
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Morning Blessings
The Talmud [Berakhot 60b] gives the following list for birkhot ha-shachar [blessings to be said early in the morning upon rising]: Upon awakening: Elohai neshamah On hearing the cock crow: Asher natan lasekhvi On rubbing the eyes: Poke'ach Ivrim On...
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TextArc
TextArc looks cool, but I can't tell as it doesn't work on a Mac.... a tool to aid in the discovery of patterns and concepts in arbitrary texts by leveraging a powerful and underutilized resource — human visual processing. Well,...
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Plantpacks.com praised
Yay! Compliments on Plantpacks.com :elegant design, easy-to-use technology, and good content. No kidding, it's a class act. From Supervert. What's Supervert, I hear you asking?Its mission is to utilize the techniques of vanguard aesthetics to research the pathology of novel...
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Diary of a Start-Up (ArsDigita)
Here's the skinny from Eve Andersson, the rise and fall of ArsDigita and lessons from the world of venture capital, and Francois has collected a lot of interesting background information....
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What DOCTYPEs should we use?
The following complete DOCTYPEs are the ones we need, from A List Apart: Fixing Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE...
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Fakepilot
This guy knows his Flash. Damn!...
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Warm tired eyes
What's it, like, a million degrees in Manhattan? (I've decided to attempt to use proper punctuation, capitalization*, etc.) Heat, coupled with two-day abstenence from coffee (and all caffiene analogs*), I'm exhausted. * I continue to waver between British and American...
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Visual guide for putting on Tefillin
An illustrated guide to wrapping Tefillin for Sefardi and both Ashkenaz Beit Yosef and Sfard. .gif heavy (no HTML text, in fact)...
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This is not a place of honor
Sandia National Laboratories charged a panel of outside experts with the task to design a 10,000-year marking system for the WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) site, and estimate the efficacy of the system against various types of intrusion....
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Circuit Bending
Some really interesting sounds on a difficult-to-decode site called TheExperiment. In the mid '90s we learned of an idea called "curcuit bending", the term of which was created by Qubais Reed Ghazala. Its the idea to take a sound making...
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Feds might use Microsoft product for online ID
Forget about a national ID card. Instead, the federal government might use Microsoft's Passport technology to verify the online identity of America's citizens, federal employees and businesses, according to the White House technology czar. Source: The Seattle Times: Business &...
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“ and ” — my two new numeric best-friends
Aardvark's very useful (but not-so-simple) Simple Character Entity Chart lists many (if not all) ISO character identity names and numeric values. This help me to display proper “curly” quotes instead of boring old "straight" ones. This also allows Movable Type...
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Stylesheet tweeks
I'm contented with most of the Movable Type templates. I've been fiddling around with the stylesheet for a few hours now, and I'm going to put some more time in tomorrow, g-d willing. I must remember to create and implement...
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Name servers updated
Friendly but terse Carl at Freeola has updated the name servers. Since redgecko.org mirgated servers in mid-March I've been meaning to get them on the phone — after 30 minutes on hold, a two minute conversation sorted everything out. The...
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Body and Soul — Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party — Body and Soul
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A Guide to Jewish Prayer — Adin Steinsaltz
Adin Steinsaltz — A Guide to Jewish Prayer
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Dreambody: The Body’s Role in Revealing the Self — Arnold Mindell
Mindell, Arnold — Dreambody: The Body’s Role in Revealing the Self
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geogaddi — boards of canada
boards of canada — geogaddi
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LamRim.com — Tibetan Buddhist Internet Radio
LamRim.com — Tibetan Buddhist Internet Radio
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Developing interpretative traditions
“We haven’t loved our particular sacred writings and traditions enough so as to have opened them to their full creative potential....”
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Unsolicited faxes? Fax back!
A rather amusing suggestion for retribution if you're the victim of unsolicited faxes....
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Palm Virtual Network Computing
VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system which allows you to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and from...
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Memory boost and network expansion
I bought a 128MB SIMM from the Apple store and it arrived the next day although I didn't pay for overnight shipping. I thought this chip would double my mother's iMac's memory, but I'd erroneously assumed the 128MB she already...
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Jonathon’s First Holy Communion
The Feinstein Family y–chromosomes
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Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor
Most of the criteria of substance dependence can apply to people who watch a lot of TV. The term "TV addiction" is imprecise and laden with value judgments, but it captures the essence of a very real phenomenon. Psychologists and...
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Television and the Perpetuation of Gender-Role Stereotypes
In the typical home, the TV set is turned on for more than seven hours each day and the average person watches more than three hours each day. The most consistent image we have of women on television is that...
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Understanding TV's effects on the developing brain
Potential hazards in a media culture Negative outcomes have been observed in today's schools, which appear to be related to too much of the wrong kind of media exposure. An "epidemic" of attention deficit disorder, behavioral problems, faltering academic abilities,...
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Discovery meeting and site mapping
Collecting internal opinions My meeting at the OG's offices went very well. I distributed three worksheets — Business, Communications, and Technology Analyses — to seven staff members, opening a dialogue on the general direction of the project. This discovery meeting...
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Iterative Program Menu Design
Playing with the menu metaphor, I came up with the tagline "Same Old Story, Fresh New Flavor" and chose an orange to visually say "fresh." Full color and we'd run into a pricing issue; also a liscensing issue for this...
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Emigre fonts say “fresh”
I'm blatantly breaking the Licensing Terms, but I do plan to pay for what ever fonts (if any) ALL likes. I'm also enamoured of the Emigre catalogue, so I'd like to give them props (and thank RS for turning me...
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Mom's birthday, samff.com's rebirth
I never thought it would take eight weeks to implement the improvements I'd had in mind for samff.com. I'm very happy with the work I've done, but I've unearthed another 100 or so changes I'd still like to make. In...
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Before Trips to Israel, There Was Camp
I ran into an old camp friend on the street this morning; got me thinking of the joys of summer camp. I entered Cejwin into Google and came up with this article which claims camps "forged a brand-new kind of...
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Orsinal: Exceptional Flash
Excellent simple games, delicate, intimate design, abundant creativity: Orisinal : Morning Sunshine I especially like: Bubble Bees and Chicken Wings. Flash required....
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Fluid's “Endeka” video
Endeka has an exceptionally cool video. Mostly geometric forms and vivid colors — not exactly suited to RealPlayer or WinMedia compression, but worth checking out anyway. I really like the song, too. More Fluid audio. (from vitiminic.co.uk) Label: NoBones Video...
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Entity Replacement JavaScript
Francois, web-graphics and gazingus come together, unified by the fact thatit is much easier for users to type certain special characters destined for display on a web page than it is for them to type the proper character entity equivalents...
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Phoenix Rising sessions
I had a beautiful encounter with myself through an assisted yoga practise called Phoenix Rising. This “yoga therapy” is ais a combination of classical yoga and elements of contemporary mind-body psychology that facilitates a powerful release of physical and emotional...
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Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy: A Bridge from Body to Soul — Michael Lee
Wisdom and inner truth. I haven’t quite finished this book, but it’s a quick read and I’m likely to complete it before my session Thursday. It was a quick, but refreshing and recommended read. If you’re at all interested in...
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Sharing Files Between a Mac and a PC
I don't have time to work on it now, but the article Sharing Disks and Files seems to be all I'll need in order to network an iMac and my PC. I've networked machines before — including an incredibly easy...
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Yikes! At 800x600
I saw this site on a PC running IE 4.0 via AOL at 800x600 screen-resolution, and I'm tempted to tweak the design to eliminate or reduce the On This Page box — it just takes up too much room. I've...
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