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In: Blogging
28 Feb 2007After months of using Live Writer, I am back to Qumana. Simple, lightweight, does the job.
Tags: Qumana
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In: Life
23 Feb 2007All bow before my heraldic shield.
Let the delusions of grandeur commence!
Technorati tags: Pierzchala, heraldry, coat of arms, Poland
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In: Architecture / Design| Blogging| RANTING| Technology| Web Performance
22 Feb 2007Did we mention that the layout doesn’t work in Firefox or MSIE 7?
Oooops.
Technorati tags: Dwell, css, design, firefox, msie 7
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Just found that Dwell magazine has a blog.
Ooops! A pseudo-blog. No feed.
Dwell: Get with the program.
UPDATE: Apparently it does! There is an RSS graphic at the bottom. But that’s not the feed link. Oh no!
You have to click the image to go to a page that has the page that has the RSS feed in [...]
In: Life
21 Feb 2007David Parmet pointed me to these Pledge Week extravaganzas.
My fave:
Surviving members of every 50s doo-wop band fight to the death with clubs — shirtless and totally coked-up — in massive Thunderdome-like arena
Merlin Mann is a god. One of the minor deities, but a deity nonetheless.
Some additions:
Celtic Women v. The Three Tenors in a massive glass-breaking, [...]
In: Life
21 Feb 2007Sorry to quote a hideous dog treat commercial from eons ago, but this post at the Core 77 Design Blog reminded me of it.
An alarm clock that reminded me of my halcyon days, when carcinogens and fat mattered less to me.
It also reminded me of a passage from Neal Stephenson’s Zodiac describing the all-black breakfast. [...]
This Pine Cone is Empty
Originally uploaded by spierzchala.
A shot inspired by Gosiak’s Pássaros set.
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Glaring Moon
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This is a garden ornament that was at the mini golf centre where we had Cameron’s birthday party.
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Dave Sifry launched a few great ideas that will be studiously ignored by PBS execs because they know better. [here]
I have said this many times in the past [here, here, and here]: asking me for money while showing “Lord of the flies dance to 60s motown classics sung by Celtic women” is not helping your [...]
In: Life
17 Feb 2007Photographing Squirrels Photographing Photographers [via FlickrBlog]
Technorati tags: photography, Flickr, squirrels, cameras
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Stephen Pierzchala is one of a cadre of crazy Canucks living in the United States. A 10-year veteran of the Web performance field, Stephen also writes on topics as diverse as branding and reputation, bipolar, and Web technologies.