Monthly Archive: March 2008

Mar
22

New Computer

I guess it was time. My last computer was bought in 2002. It’s so old and slow and infected with viruses that for the past six months it hasn’t been working. I’ve been keeping it in a corner because something in me simply refuses to throw away so much circuitry and plastic, but the truth …

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Mar
16

Brian’s Travel Map

This is a test to see if the cool app from Facebook will work embedded in a post on my site. This is a map of all the cities I’ve ever been to (the criteria here being that I had to have actually walked around the city, not just landed in the airport): London, England …

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Mar
12

Shameless Plagarism

I shamelessly plagarized my own blog post. Just after writing my post on travel, I had to run an innovation workshop at a meeting of my department. So to get everyone in the mood I made a few slides that tried to show how innovations over time for various things have become more frequent. So …

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Mar
12

Hooray!

Cross-posting between WordPress and Facebook works! Hooray for technology! Three cheers for open source software! (Yes, I am just writing gratuitously to fill up my mini-feed on my Facebook profile. So what? Who are you to judge me!)

Mar
12

I’m on Facebook

I just couldn’t hold out any longer. I’m usually an early adopter of all techy things, just because I love being able to say: “Oh yeah, [insert trendy Web 2.0 service]? I’ve been on that for ages.”  I mean, after all, I do have my very own self-hosted blog (thanks to the generosity of my …

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