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235 posts from 1996 to present • Page 5 of 10

2011

2010

My LASIK Experience: Intralase & Wavefront

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I grew up nearsighted pretty badly in my left eye 20/200, or -3.0 &8211; my right eye too, but to a much lesser degree 20/35 or -1.0. I hated the idea of sticking stuff in my eye every morning and glasses didn't appeal to me much as a kid, so I...

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2009

A Primer on Trademark Registrations

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Curious about the TM and R symbols by brand names? Interested in whether your company needs a trademark? I hope to here clarify for you what a trademark is, how to register one, and how to get your trademark registered internationally!...

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2008

Philosophies on Living

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Because stories are told from a first-person perspective, they concern themselves with the subjective truth of the observer. different observers of the same factual events are recorded as different stories with different truths. many conflicting s...

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Premature Thoughts on Weight Loss

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I've been losing weight for a month and have managed to shed around 12 pounds; I've still got a ways to go, but I've been happy enough with the results and have received enough good advice about the topic that I thought it would be wor...

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Distillation

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The experience itself has a small value, providing tidbits to recall later context for other experiences....

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David’s Two and a Half SSD Bets for 2010

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I've been following with keen interest the development of solid state drives1 SSDs, which are basically really fast and reliable flash memory to use instead of the current rotating magnetic drives. Why does this matter? Well, first and foremost,...

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The 10 Levels of Modern Communication

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My coworker Joël1 and I were today discussing the different ways we can communicate and how "serious" each was. From lightest-weight / most innocuous to most intimate and serious, we came up with the following:...

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L0K8 – A Simple Location Service For Twitter

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This weekend I banged out a very simple location service called L0K8. It consists of a small 1.1MB Windows download. You install & run, it pops up a web page, you give it your twitter username & password, and now as you move from place to place your...

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Boingo Wireless: Astoundingly Confident & Poor

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When I was stuck in Boston's Logan International Airport for a few hours waiting for a flight, I decided I ought to get some work done; I popped open my laptop to see if I could spot a free network. Signed onto "loganwifi" and got a pa...

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Mapping the Internet

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With only about 50% of PBwiki's traffic coming from North America and with preliminary benchmarks showing 3+ second page load times in Paris, I've been thinking a bit about how to make the PBwiki experience snappy for people around the worl...

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On Free Speech

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A post of mine from a recent email thread on why a co-op should continue to host a server with arguably distasteful but legal content:...

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