So as I’ve done in the past, I’m doing Relay for Life this April 28 and 29th in Berkeley. It’s a charity event that raises money for the American Cancer Society, that consists of a number of events such as running, concerts, and a special luminaria. It’s also loads of fun.
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Entries from March 2006
Donate to my Relay for Life Team
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
Tags: General · Relay for Life
TypePad - Widgets
March 30th, 2006 · Comments Off
TypePad - Widgets: Not to be outdone by Wordpress, Typepad’s now got their own set of widgets for use on your blog. Hope they release a plugin soon for Movable Type installations. (via Download Squad)
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Tags: Asides · The Internet · Six Apart · typepad · widgets
WordPress Widgets for Self-hosted Wordpress Blogs
March 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Automattic » WordPress Widgets- Making it a lot easier to edit the sidebar (and possibly more) of your Wordpress blog. Supports RSS, so you can already do a lot. It’s already a function of Wordpress.com. (via Andy Skelton)
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Tags: Asides · The Internet · Automattic · widgets · Wordpress
Free AP Classes over the Internet
March 21st, 2006 · Comments Off
Monterey Institute for Technology & Education AP Courses: Students can take interactive lessons to prepare students for AP classes. They’ve got Physics, Environmental Science, and US History, among other topics. Sure wish I had this in high school.
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Tags: Asides · The Internet · school
Great Mac Freeware Programs
March 17th, 2006 · Comments Off
So as some of you know, I work as tech support for the College Writing Program at Berkeley. Our department is all Macintosh, so finding good software can sometimes be expense. Fortunately, there are a number of sites that list freeware Mac programs. One of the ones I like is FreeMacWare, a [...]
Tags: Software · Firefox · Mac · Mactracker · Nvu · OS X · VLC · Witch
Top 10 Accidental Discoveries
March 5th, 2006 · Comments Off
The 10 Greatest Accidental Discoveries- Proving that even accidents produce great results. (via Digg)
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The 4400 Season 1
March 1st, 2006 · Comments Off
A good show, but not a spectacular one. It’s rather predictable and simple in terms of plot, and the characters are rather ordinary. There are only five episodes in all, and there are no extras or even scene selections in these DVDs. Download the episodes instead.
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The Lyceum Project
March 1st, 2006 · Comments Off
The Lyceum Project- Another way to install multiple Wordpress blogs, besides of course Wordpress MU and all the other ways (via Boing Boing)
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Tags: Asides · The Internet · Lyceum Project · Wordpress



