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January 2006

vBulletin vs Invision

What is the best forum software?

A Brown Flair

My father always had the best handwriting of anybody I knew. He had a knack for giving even the shortest note look a touch that gave it a special impact. And at the time his writing instrument of choice was a brown flair ben, the one with the small white plastic disc on the top [...]

Google Toolbar for Firefox Bug

Situation: I’m typing in an input field and want to enter a special character, for example to type in “café”. I hit Alt + 130 to enter the “é” character. For some reason, the “é” character shows up in the Firefox Google search box, not in the text box, then the page directs to a [...]

Back Alley Café

Not much seems to exist on the Internent on this short-lived punk and pseudo-punk hangout in an alley in northwest Washington, D.C. It was just a stone’s throw from where I worked at the time, the Ha’ Penny Lion, a popular hangout for DC lobbyists and other K Streeet wannabees. On a side note, I [...]

That Poseurs/Cagney’s Guy from D.C.

Don’t know what else to call him, but if you saw him, you’ll know exactly who I’m talking about the moment you read the title. It’s funny what you remember as you get older and the fiery nights of hope and promise of your 20′s grow ever-distant, and you increasingly search for some sort of [...]