Category: glamorous
My Glamorous Life
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iPhone “disappearing photos” bug
With this bug, the iPhone camera does everything a camera should do, except take pictures. It seems to obliterate photographic data the moment you snap the shutter. If you take five photos, you get five…
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Facts and Opinions about Zeldman
Yesterday I spoke at BusinessWeek and was interviewed for a podcast that airs next week. Tomorrow I will speak for Carson at Future of Web Design. I will not be nicely dressed.
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Into the murky deep
Tucked away in a quiet corner of The New York Public Library at 42nd Street sits a small, clean, neatly appointed classroom. At 3:30, we commandeered it for an impromptu meeting with an attorney.
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Faster, pussycat
Have you ever bought clothes while traveling, and been unable to fit everything in your suitcase when it was time to go home? That suitcase is what my days are like now.
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We live as we dream
My cold is in its second week; I slept less than four hours last night. Yesterday we decided to check out the housing market in our neighborhood and ended up making a bid. Tomorrow, if…
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God Knocks
“It’s becoming a bedroom community for people who work on Wall Street,” the Wife says of our beloved NYC. Today a small one-bedroom costs over a million. But if Osama bin Laden could not chase…
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First day of preschool
Nothing says Buddhism like raising a child.
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Proposed Catch-Phrases for the Next Bruce Willis Film
Hi-ho, the motherfuckin’ dairy-o, motherfucker! etc.
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September 12
A gloomy, rainy September 11th in New York City. An eye doctor visit in the morning left my eyes dilated. For hours, I was overly sensitive to light. It was a perfect way to experience…
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How to make love to a ghost
Sunday morning, while dreaming, I began receiving messages from the other world. They covered matters of etiquette when interacting with the dead, and even offered glimpses of what the spirit life is like. They were…
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Block
The longest journey begins. Or doesn’t.
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San Francisco, here you come
I last left San Francisco on September 10th, 2001. It was a good day for flying….
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Bang!
Had I known that there was an explosion in midtown Manhattan and that my wife and daughter were out in the chaos, I would have been far more anxious during my train ride home from…
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The heartbreak of technology
Why this tech support call took an hour is a mystery. Why it is called “support” is a more profound one.
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Noware
The age of ubiquitous computing may be here, but nobody told the companies that installed my DSL.