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The Aristocracy Threshold
My friend Andy and I came up with the term, “Aristocracy Threshold” a while ago as we were discussing wealth and how people do/don’t accumulate it. It’s an interesting concept. The idea is that there is some amount of wealth that, if achieved, allows an individual or family to become financially independent soley on the…
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Hardware Reuse
Once upon a time I was a NeXT developer. For quite a few years actually. It was one of the more educating periods of my career (NeXT developers, as a group, are some of the more disciplined programmers you’ll run across.) But that’s beside the point. Long after I stopped working on NeXTs, I kept…
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Broofa’s Toolbar
Speaking of little projects (see prev. post), I humbly present Broofa’s Toolbar, a nifty little utility that gathers various scripts I’ve found useful in years past into one tidy little bookmark. If you’re running IE or a Mozilla-like browser, you can open it right this very instant. This is still a work in progress, but…
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Flashy Bugs
I suspect we all occasionally get an urge to pursue some little project that people might find fun or interesting and make it available to the masses. Heck, this is what a lot of the WWW is about. But I don’t often actually follow up on these urges, so it’s fun to discover people who…
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Shelves, Part I
It’s only taken me 5 months, but I’m finally getting around to building some bookshelves for our “library” (read “spare room”). Designing these things is always interesting since there are multiple considerations. For us it was… Maximize space for shelves Look nice Work as a display case for a few items Be relatively easy to…