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While I do not currently live in Michigan my wife and I are still registered Michigan voters. As American citizens living abroad we still follow U.S. politics. Something made much easier by the internet than it has historically been for...
Email on Apple's iPhone can increase the spam you receive.
Lo que querría mas que un buen precio (aunque esto vale mucho) es un operador que no me engaña. Me apena aprender que Yoigo no es esta operador.
At the 1939 World’s Fair Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first president to appear on television, no doubt completely oblivious to the extent to which this new technology would change future political contests. Sixteen years later Dwight D. Roosevelt stood...
A round up of beautiful things I've found on the net recently.
Obbio la Sala Club will be the first club to host a party using technology created by "La Fiesta Silenciosa" (The Silent Party) in Sevilla.
I’ve done some significant restructuring of the way my email is handled and everything seems to be back in working order. I’ve removed a number of network bottle necks and implemented some redundancy. Hopefully all of this will keep issues...
Changing mail servers.
Back from Madrid and my screen names have changed.
Out of town in and around Madrid.
A while back I installed Little Snitch but unfortunately it felt too much like an invasion of the Windows Vista programmers. I wish I could install it but until there's a solution for the constant barrage of minor decisions it necessitates I'll take my chances.
A minor but annoying bug in Movable Type 4.0 with a work around in case some one needs it before the next update is available.
Is OpenID still so immature people don't know how to implement it correctly? Or is the spec so ambiguous it allows differing (often incompatible) implementations?
I'm proposing a new plugin for Movable Type which offers a combined view of important statistical information.
I launch a new code-base for my site based on Blueprint, the new CSS framework.
A PHP script to implement favatars - comment avatars based on the favicon.ico files that are commonly found on websites.
iWork '08 features an interesting new feature: "Send to You Tube".
Apple's new semi-automated self-replicating Smart Folders could be put to good use in many applications throughout Mac OS X.
Another update to Rob Goodlatte's excellent Syncotype script and bookmarklet.
An update to Rob Goodlatte's excellent Syncotype script and bookmarklet.
Here are a few of the resources, tools, and tips I would recommend to new Mac users.
The new redesign is finally launched.
Shmuel.org is in the midst of renovation. This website will be redesigned, restructured, and hopefully revived shortly. Also note that Shmuel.org has moved to it’s new address at samuel.bowles.es. I’ll post more about the move once all the dust has...
A bookmarklet allowing easier text input for 30 Boxes.
A bookmarklet for Del.icio.us that automatically adds the description (or note in del.icio.us speak) for the link you are adding.
Today Josiah's weight is stabelised a little, here's hoping tomorrow we'll see a gain.
On 4 June 2005 my son Josiah Mikel Bowles was born at 12:40 am (CET) weighing 2.1 Kilos (4.6 pounds)
You've probably heard the old adage: "Fast, Cheap, Good. Pick Two." It's a lie.
Our third anniversary in a castle built in 1475
I'd like to add my 2 cents to the conversation about Movable Type's pricing.
The longer I live in this foreign culture the more I become homeless.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who ran for the opposition PSOE party, won the election this evening. The win has been characterized as a vote for peace, a vote to get Spain's troops out of Iraq.
In the square and in many windows facing in on the square were people pounding on anything they could find: garbage cans, sheets of metal, bottles, pots, and pans.
Tonight there are news helicopters flying above the center of Madrid. About a mile from where I live people are protesting in front of the offices of the governing Popular Party.
It's not raining the sky is crying.
A letter home after the bombings on 11 March.
Hoy todos somos madrileños.
Trying to understand 11 March.
If you had any doubt before that the definition of tact has changed in the past fifty years, this site will eliminate it.
Video begins at 10 million light years from the Earth and then successively zooms in to 100 attometers.
My Dad's CD is finally available. In stores, online, and around the world.
A reading spree of books.
Arriving in Spain.
A clever tribute to Cooper Black
Read more about the album, leave comments, and buy your copy.
As I get older and collect experiences of my own I find the best way to jump-start my creativity is to get out and do something.
More free WiFi in Grand Rapids than Milwaukee, how can this be?
We plan to leave for Madrid, Spain.
Every family has a tradition this is ours.
True stories are the hardest kind to tell.
A song for my Dad.
The dish is complete and ready to be served when the kicking and screaming has subsided.
Chicago here we come.
She reminded him of a poorly dubbed Japanese b-movie.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
The constant struggle to write.
But am I?
I've been wondering lately who it was that said love should be easy.
And here is who I am: a man who chases after change like a dog follows butterflies.
It begins with small piles of to-dos that begin littering the corners of my mind.
From where you are the things I'm hoping must seem strange and distant: that the hurting's deeper but the loving bigger.
Because are all my reasons. Aren't those reasons cause enough?
Come on sister dance.
Youth was good but age was fine, love just got better with time.
I guess it's time to go, so tie the rope tight.
We love less more and more.
I need some faith tonight
There is just one and it may be you.
These are the roots that bind me.
Do you remember me?
I've recently begun collecting links and things that interest me from around the web here on my site. Right now there aren't many but you can find them all in clippings.
This site has been a place to experiment with technology, vent frustrations, express myself, or just play. Along the way a few entries seem to have struck a nerve. Here are a few of the best.
I've created or improved a number of bookmarklets including:
In which I take on the old adage "Fast, Cheap, Good. Pick Two." and the comment box takes on a life of it's own.
In 2004 Robyn and I lived less than a mile from Atocha, the train station that was bombed on 11 March. I believe what I lived through that day will stay with me forever. I wrote a number of posts around that time, all of which are tagged 11 March.
This post caused a small stir mostly because people were trying to figure out who it was about. The answer is no one — it's the idea that bothers me.
Before I married Robyn I wrote a list of reasons I wanted to.
About a year later I answered my most frequently asked question and it wasn't the answer everyone wanted.