Being environmentally conscious at Christmas time means reducing your impact by conserving energy and producing less waste. The first part of having a Green Christmas focused primarily on gift giving. This second part is focusing on energy saving and conservation.
Decorate with Energy-Saving LED Christmas Lights - The time for large glass Christmas light bulbs [...]
Americans generate 25 percent more trash - that’s 25 million extra tons - between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Here are a few tips to have a Green Christmas, one with less environmental impact.
Buy nothing. A little hardcore and bah humbug, but the best possible way to [...]
A follow-up post on the Leopard bugs I previously discussed.
My biggest beef is that tar is still broken.
User Error: The terminal tabs shortcut keys was my mistake, they are curly brackets so I have to hold down the shift key to switch. Between Safari, Firefox, Terminal, and Adium there are just too many [...]
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Posted 01 December 2007
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I ended up upgrading to Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) and I think that was a mistake. I should of headed my low expectations and not even bothered. There are many annoyances and a few bugs. The biggest bug which is actually impacting my work is also the oddest, some how they broke “tar”.
Leopard upgrades [...]
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Posted 01 November 2007
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Apple has releasd yet another major upgrade to Mac OS X. Each upgrade becomes less and less interesting. I’m more interested in the GMail IMAP upgrade then anything at all happening with OS X. Hey Google, when does it come to hosted accounts?
The operating system is mattering less and less as web apps [...]
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Posted 26 October 2007
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In the image above the two small squares in the middle are the same exact color value. Really. Visually, the box surrounded by the darker background looks lighter, and vicey versey. This is due to an effect called simultaneous contrast.
Interesting to think about when viewing photos within a photo editor such as Aperture, see this [...]
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Posted 07 September 2007
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I publish various things on the web. I write in this blog, I publish photos to my photo blog and I save snippets of interesting articles using Magnolia. If you come to my mkaz.com home page you can see all three of these things going on. You can even subscribe to one or all of [...]
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Posted 09 August 2007
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Ok, I’ve posted way too much about the iPhone, I think a few people might actually be reading and subscribing to my blog. I’m actually getting comments too. Time to nip that in the bud with a post about obscure unix commands.
I was reading a tutorial on setting up an IMAP server and the guy [...]
I’ve had my iPhone for a few weeks now and here are the real issues I have come across.
1. No MMS Text Messages. I do not know of any cell phone which can not receive photo messages, except the $600 most advanced phone on the market. This one just baffles me. I [...]
Here’s a simple how-to for making your own Tyvek sleeve case for your iPhone. Yes, it’s odd that I’m willing to spend $600 on a phone and then make my own case.
Tyvek is a magic material made by DuPont [more info]. It is used for mailing envelopes and house siding. I even have [...]
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Posted 22 July 2007
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