Starbody

How’s that for a title? Besides changing up the theme to something a bit more basic (I’m a big fan of Chris Pearson’s themes). Tomorrow (hopefully, best laid plans and all) I’ll update the theme with some images of my own. I’ve been totally inspired by some of the simple, straightforward recommendations he makes on [...]

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Look, I even categorized things in case you want to skip over things you might find boring. Can you guess what I do for a living? That’s right, craft emails. Okay, no, not really, but sometimes it seems like it. It seems like I’m striving to communicate to people who don’t speak the same language [...]

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There is no good excuse for that title, other than sometimes I just can’t help myself. And really, I owe myself a little indulgence into crap every now and then don’t I? I like to think so. And anyway, today was SO bad that I really thought I might have to hide in my closet [...]

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I finished installing the latest version of Wordpress and so far it’s truly fantastic! The interface overhaul makes perfect sense (which I think is the best complement you can give a site experience). It certainly paid to bring in the well respected Happy Cog team. The navigation has been reorganized to feature the four activities [...]

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Okay, I give. I officially need to perform a fresh install of Wordpress to attempt to eliminate all of the issues the site is currently experiencing. It’s frustrating because I don’t really want to do it … but I suppose it will also be a little bit fun.
In other news, what the hell is going [...]

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Okay, there is clearly something wrong with this site. Every now and then it defaults back to the Kubrick theme (regardless of which theme I am using) with errors thrown from the database. I’m certain I could figure out what is happening if I had the time … then again, if I had the time [...]

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I’m in love.

a2a_linkname=”Oh Sweet Jebus”;
a2a_linkurl=”http://www.starbody.org/oh-sweet-jebus”;

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Why is it an unwritten law that when you lose a post, the rewritten version will never be as good as the first? And what happens if you’ve actually lost the post twice (having realized one of the links you were adding crashed the browser)? Does that mean the rewritten post will be twice as [...]

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One of my favorite products of the social hotness has to be LastFM. If you spend most of your day listening music and you given it a try, you really should. How does it work? Register on the site, download the app, enter some of your favorite artists and voila! a radio station is generated [...]

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I love paper. moleskines, Fabriano Artist’s Journals, Kate’s Paperie, Russell + Hazel; I love them all. Despite the ocean between those sworn to a paperless existence and those bound (no pun intended) to bits of notes everywhere, it seems I fall somewhere in the middle. So the whole idea of PocketMod, though seemingly simple, is [...]

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Still sick. Really, it’s a shame. However, it has allowed me time for:

Reading about the CSS shadow technique.
Enjoying the elegant work of Mark Wyner.
Perusing the Chicago Manual of Style.
Thinking of reasons to buy more Moleskines.

a2a_linkname=”This Just In”;
a2a_linkurl=”http://www.starbody.org/this-just-in”;

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Yes, that IS a lame title.

I am having far too much fun playing with Flock. If things keep moving in this direction, I might just have to boot Safari and Firefox for this Swiss Army knife of browsers. Things I really, really like. No, really.The interface. It’s simple, clean and pretty dang (oh Gary Larson, [...]

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Since, Shocktober is almost here …
What? It is! Weren’t you just saying “I can’t believe it’s already September”. And it’s already September 8th!
But, I digress. On a whim (and against my better judgement) I picked up Fatal Frame II for Xbox. As if there aren’t already enough ways I find to terrify myself, there’s a [...]

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Just call me Jack of all trades (we’ll just skip the second part of that phrase).
Sonica: Last weeks KCRW Music Exchange played a bit from a band called Test Icicles, described by their engineer as “the Arcade Fire meets Slayer”. S’right, that’s what I said. Due to release a neon green 7″ titled Boa vs [...]

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The Nintendo Revolution was unveiled yesterday, on the heels of Xbox 360 and PS3. And now, the time honored debate over whether to buy the new Nintendo console for what amounts to a single game: Zelda: Twilight Princess?
I have a Gamecube that gets dusted off now and … well, never (it was permanently retired after [...]

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Although I don’t generally think of myself as a geek, I did have to grab Tiger as soon as it came out (in fact, I pre-ordered … wait, I AM a geek). I was pretty certain the new version was going to fix some small, yet horribly annoying things about Panther.
My new number one [...]

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One of many efforts I am dedicating myself to is more frequent updating to the site now that I’m all settled in and comfortable. Don’t you just love that new website smell? There are reasons that I haven’t been updating as often as I’d like. One of those reasons is a need for introspection. I [...]

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every now and then i go though phases of spending countless hours perusing what’s new and cool to feed the belly of the Powerbook. the PB is loyal to its favorite apps, but it likes to shake things up from time to time. we like to try out software that is supposed to help ’save [...]

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Tony Pierce’s Busblog is not one i read everyday, mostly because there is a hell of alot of stuff on it. it’s one of the few places in the online world that has constant + quality updates. so i stay away to save up posts so i can grab a cup of coffee and ignore [...]

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the trip back to the midwest is looming closer and closer. there will be lots of driving, hugging and catching up. for that reason, we are taking it easy this Labor Day and not hitting Bumbershoot this year. instead i’m prepping my PB for the trip and thinking about any other little luxuries that might [...]

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