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Sep 2, 21 |
Transparent sodium under pressure |
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Aug 27, 21 |
Many tiny posts versus fewer somewhat larger ones: the final battle |
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Jul 15, 21 |
Carl Sagan’s Star Wars criticisms |
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Dec 14, 20 |
The M1 MacBook Air: Amazing hardware, shitty software |
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Nov 17, 20 |
Why does rebooting solve so many tech issues? |
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Oct 19, 20 |
Thus was it written: quoting accuracy and pretentiousness |
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Sep 18, 20 |
A timely excerpt from The Plague, by Albert Camus |
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Sep 12, 20 |
Stolen Bike Part 3: The Haggling |
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Aug 17, 20 |
Keep waiting for Waiting for the Barbarians |
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Jul 30, 20 |
Tempting fate and the return of Stompy McStomperton |
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Jul 11, 20 |
Faking It |
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Jun 23, 20 |
Wanted: A Mac app for repeating to-dos |
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May 15, 20 |
“Like a machine” |
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Nov 19, 19 |
Apple Arcade games hopelessly buggy |
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May 30, 19 |
Game of Thrones: Flawed but still amazing |
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Apr 15, 19 |
Urgent “mobile first” design reboot for PainScience.com |
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Mar 22, 19 |
Becoming a little bored: review of Michelle Obama’s book tour |
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Sep 13, 18 |
My bizarre Amway experience, 25 years ago |
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Mar 1, 18 |
Lost and found |
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Feb 13, 18 |
Five Apple TV bugs that make this gadget hard to recommend |
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Jun 30, 17 |
Dear Excessively Polite Drivers |
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Mar 9, 17 |
You will use system text replacements in macOS whether you like it or not |
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Dec 29, 16 |
Apple’s Universal Clipboard feature “just works” only when it’s in the mood |
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Jul 23, 16 |
A memorable evening with Steve Martin |
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Feb 18, 16 |
Instant Hotspot My Ass: Apple’s super slow and unreliable “Instant Hotspot” feature |
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Apr 17, 15 |
No Apple Watch yet: One deal-breaker to rule them all |
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Mar 11, 15 |
Shirt alert! |
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Feb 17, 15 |
Tile review: meh |
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Jan 29, 15 |
Keeping Business Small: Why I rejected a real publishing offer |
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Nov 24, 14 |
Linking as Activism: The surprising political power of linking, when it’s done right |
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Oct 2, 14 |
Three good memorization tips |
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Jun 15, 14 |
The ultimate discovery |
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Jun 10, 14 |
The syrup story: Chapter 5 of my odd success story |
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Jun 6, 14 |
A real vacation |
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May 21, 14 |
Elite, expensive massage training: Chapter 4 of my odd success story |
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May 7, 14 |
Revenge of The Pig! Chapter 3 of my odd success story |
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Apr 15, 14 |
Writer’s Dreams: Chapter 1 of my odd success story |
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Apr 13, 14 |
The case of the missing space: Why did double-spacing disappear? |
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Apr 11, 14 |
Beating extreme worry |
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Apr 10, 14 |
How I make a good living as a writer |
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Apr 3, 14 |
Cursed! Cosmic malice on a small scale |
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Apr 1, 14 |
Belisarius: Rome’s last amazing general, and the loss of Italy |
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Feb 28, 14 |
Bogus Bose |
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Feb 16, 14 |
Organizing iCloud accounts for the whole family |
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Feb 6, 14 |
A sabbatical post-mortem: Finish your career in just nine weeks! |
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Oct 1, 13 |
Fiction & Science Fiction in Ancient Rome |
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Sep 25, 13 |
What’s useful in iOS 7 (and not one word about aesthetics) |
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Sep 13, 13 |
Target Blank Is Evil |
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Sep 3, 13 |
Hey, introverts! Small talk isn’t “shallow,” you just suck at it |
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Sep 3, 13 |
Yet another Pebble review (but this one mentions things I didn’t read about anywhere else) |
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Aug 21, 13 |
The early Roman emperors, quickly |
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Aug 14, 13 |
Spartacus, Andy Whitfield, and when to worry about back pain |
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Feb 13, 13 |
The Sonic Hedgehog Gene |
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Feb 3, 13 |
How & why to link: a super simple guide to good internet linking |
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Jan 7, 13 |
SPF Validation: The email spoof-busting technology that sounds like sunscreen |
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Dec 31, 12 |
Acute Hyperprojectemia |
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Dec 24, 12 |
OS X’s LaunchPad: actually kind of great |
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Dec 20, 12 |
Mail search and “smart” mailboxes in Mac OS X Lion: the biggest promise and the biggest letdown |
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Dec 10, 12 |
Eek…yuck…phew! Emotional reactions to my competition |
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Sep 30, 12 |
Why You Should Publish Straightforward Contact Information on Your Website |
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Aug 4, 12 |
Mountain Lion review in (26) bullet points |
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Jul 29, 12 |
It Figures |
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Jun 22, 12 |
True Customer Service Story: A slice of the e-business life |
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Jun 16, 12 |
Some people think Prometheus is a great film |
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May 12, 12 |
Pairing Apple wireless keyboards, mice, trackpads: always a hassle |
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Apr 19, 12 |
Astronomy hobby rebooted! |
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Apr 8, 12 |
No on-device data plan activation on the 4G iPad |
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Apr 2, 12 |
How many calories is it really? The dissection and analysis of Sushi Combi B |
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Mar 25, 12 |
The deep cosmos at 264 pixels per inch: a monster astrophoto on the new iPad |
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Dec 28, 11 |
Some of Mac OS X Lion’s animations really miss the mark |
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Dec 12, 11 |
Cargo review ★☆☆☆☆ Where’s the “smart,” exactly? |
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Sep 4, 11 |
Returning to science fiction after a 15-year pause |
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Aug 5, 11 |
A game point, and the best life has to offer |
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Aug 3, 11 |
Best and worst of Amsterdam |
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Jul 15, 11 |
How I met my wife and she totally thought I was gay |
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Jun 13, 11 |
Goodbye, Lovely Cat |
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May 22, 11 |
The grind of entrepreneurship: hyper-vigilant e-business babysitting while on holiday in Amsterdam |
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Feb 6, 11 |
Anti-intellectual worship of weak “mysteries” |
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Oct 9, 10 |
Radiolab Does War of the Worlds |
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Oct 3, 10 |
Book review (and my first ebook): An Oblique Approach, by David Drake & Eric Flint |
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Sep 18, 10 |
The craziest thing I have ever found in my salad |
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Sep 10, 10 |
Books are already historical artifacts |
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Jan 19, 10 |
10-Minute Guide to HTML: A quick tutorial mainly for contributors to ScienceBasedMedicine.org |