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Spring has arrived in St. Louis!
Spring has arrived in St. Louis!, originally uploaded by gserafini. I took a bunch of pictures today of the beautiful spring blossoms exploding all over Tower Grove Park. The magnolia trees are spectacular right now. Click here for more of my spring pictures Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/03/25/spring-has-arrived-in-st-louis/
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Check out the Barak Obama “1984” YouTube ad
An excellently done mashup of the famous Apple 1984 ad featuring Hillary as Big Brother and Barak as the revolution. YouTube – Vote Different Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/03/22/check-out-the-barak-obama-1984-youtube-ad/
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How I used the Unix command line to do a multi-file search and replace to fix over 4,700 individual files
Evil hackers attack! Some customers of mine recently reported some suspicious behavior on one of their sites. I discovered, with dismay, that a number of months ago there was a nasty cPanel exploit that some evil hackers had used to insert a malicious line of code into the bottom of every HTML page on this…
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And I’m now finally on Facebook and Twitter
Turning into the old fogey, trying to keep up with all these new-fangled social networks… 🙂 I like Facebook so far a lot better than MySpace. Better designed, better organized. My Facebook profile And my Twitter page, although I’m not sure how much I’ll really end up using it. Most of the people who care…
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DiddleBug Extractor 2.1 – Palm DiddleBug image extractor script for OS X, Windows, Linux (Replaces Didcon 2.0)
DiddleBug Extractor 2.1 Drawing pictures on your Palm I use an excellent free Open Source program called DiddleBug on my Palm Treo 700p for doing small black and white drawings. The latest version of DiddleBug creates 320×320 pixel size drawings. These are referred to on their site as “high-res” pictures instead of the 160×160 pixel…
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St. Louis Art Museum pictures and video
Download full-size panorama (4370 x 972 px) I made this video with my new camera (Canon SD800-IS) tonight at the St. Louis Art Museum. There was a show called “Art in Bloom” going on and we went with Kathy for dinner and to see a jazz singer. And here are some of the pictures I…
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And the Great Kitchen Remodel Project of 2006-2007 continues
We were happy to get our new camera from UPS today, a Canon SD800-IS. So far I’m really pleased with this. It has image stabilization (which lets you take mostly vibration-free pictures) and a 28mm wide-angle lens on it which means that you can take a picture of an entire room with it. It’s nice…
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Video of St. Louis Metrolink underground station at Skinker and Forest Park Parkway
I finally ventured down to explore the new Metrolink train station undeground at the intersection of Skinker and Forest Park Parkway (right near Kayaks and Washington University.) This is some video I took using my Treo 700p. Train arriving: Train departing: You’ll notice in the second video the neat light changing artwork along the walls,…
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Interesting post about the value of reducing cognitive load as it relates to designing user interfaces
Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design (via reddit) Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/02/20/interesting-post-about-the-value-of-reducing-cognitive-load-as-it-relates-to-designing-user-interfaces/
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Quite excellent commentary by Ze Frank on waves
Excellent commentary by the ever awesome Ze Frank on the topic of “Waves”. You have to watch the video to get it. Are you a surfer or a floater or a castle builder? 🙂 Check it out: the show with zefrank Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/02/11/quite-excellent-commentary-by-ze-frank-on-waves/