Fertility phones, planting yellow plums, save as PDF

I have four things to share today. Ready, set, go: 1. Here’s some interesting technology news from Engadget Mobile: Samsung has filed a patent application for a fertility-measuring phone. The phone is capable of tracking a woman’s fertile periods. Oh, yes, it’s true . . . by measuring eardrum distance and body temperature. I enjoyed […]

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NBA playoffs, Windows, FDA, Caketown, toothpaste

Tomorrow will be the fifth birthday of this blog. I was not so prolific in the early days, but I nevertheless did make my first blog post five years ago (which also means I’ve been designing websites for 10 years now). Some 100+ posts later, what do I have in store for you in this […]

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Airports unleash virtual strip searches

We started to hear about this technology in the mainstream news late last year, but now it has arrived! As of this week, airline passengers in Amsterdam are now being subjected to a new “millimeter wave” full-body scanning system. This body-imaging technology uses non-ionizing electromagnetic waves to generate an image based on the energy reflected […]

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WebVisions 2007 in review

On Thursday and Friday, May 3-4, I attended the WebVisions 2007 conference at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. This is the third year I’ve made the trek up to Portland for this excellent “future of the web” event. Below is a quick overview of some sessions I attended, with links: 1. Practical AJAX Inside […]

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WordPress 2.1 upgrade

Today spiral::notepad was upgraded to WordPress 2.1, complete with a new custom theme I designed. I will import all of my old blog entries into this new format soon. Uh, yes, really soon. There’s like 80 old entries to add, from June 2002 to present. I’m going to get right on that. In other news, […]

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Adventures in VBScripting **

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My home network setup **

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