It is quite offensive when Bill O’Reilly confuses U.S. troops with Nazis. Read coverage of his idiocy on Jason’s site and on onegoodmove.org. Jason also has a flash version of Keith Olbermann’s coverage.
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May 302006
For those who read this site using a news reader, I regret to inform you that occasionally, it appears that Blogger sometimes decides to chop my posts and provide them without markup such as link tags and photos. I’m not sure why this is happening.
News aggregators read the site using syndication. Two good news aggregators are Bloglines and Netvibes.
If this continues to happen, I’ll write a whiny note to Blogger. If it still happens, I switch news feeds or write my own blog-type service.
I’m apologize for the meta-post. Please continue to sympathize with my ligature woes.
May 302006
If you are asking, what is a ligature, check out this web page on OpenType and advanced typography. Wikipedia also has a fairly decent entry. Interestingly, I have now been to two custom stationery stores in New York City. Neither store knew what I was talking about when I asked if their letterhead used ligatures.
Incidentally, this is not a new concept with respect to computers and typography. TeX has had support for ligatures since its creation in the late 1970s.
May 012006
Last night, when I created my last two postings, Blogger generated a syndication feed that only included a plain text summary. Some aggregators, like Bloglines, have not displayed the correct syndication feed with all of the markup. If you didn’t see photos in the last two posts, I encourage you to visit samgreenfield.com directly.
If you don’t use an aggregator and read this site directly, then you don’t have to worry about this issue.
Apr 302006
Today I went to the Sakura Matsuri cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It was a beautiful day, and I was able to zip through the line. When I left a few hours later, the line was an order of magnitude longer.
Drop me a note if you would like me to email you higher resolution photos.
Apr 302006
As I wrote earlier, I went to Pittsburgh recently for Spring Carnival and the 50th anniversay of a computer arriving on the Carnegie Mellon campus. Some of the big highlights included: visiting the restaurant Eleven, seeing most of Run Lola Run with a friend, meeting Charles Geschke (the founder of Adobe and creator of Postscript), and going to a reception honoring my college advisor Mark Stehlik.
Charles Geschke and Me.
Mark’s hands fly too fast to be captured by any normal camera.
Apr 282006
I have now shut off registration requirements for commenting on my blog. Because customer service is my goal at samgreenfield.com.
Apr 272006
Frank Bruni seems to have realized that a blog post allows him the freedom to write a review of a mediocre restaurant. Negative reviews are sometimes more fun to read than positive reviews.
Recently, Doonesbury has been brilliant and should not be missed. I recommend reading the strip from two weeks ago, when the current story line started. This series of strips is a continuation of the story arc collected in the book, The Long Road Home. Another book will collect the strips since this collection.
Gene Spafford wrote a critique of obsolete best practices using rotating passwords as an example. It’s fairly interesting.
The New Yorker has had some phenomenal writing recently. This week alone, there was a fascinating piece by Bill Buford on learning how to butcher and a shockingly intense story by Daniel Raeburn on his stillborn daughter. I can’t recall a recent issue of The New Yorker that has not impressed me.
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Apr 102006
I’ll be in Pittsburgh from April 19 through April 23 for the Fifty Years of Computer Science celebration at CMU and Spring Carnival. The lectures and events sound fun and interesting. I hope to see a lot of friends there.