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Entries from June 2006

Weekend Activities

by Matthew Smith · June 29th, 2006 · No Comments

Hopefully everyone has returned safely from his or her respective weekends refreshed and ready for yet another week. Personally, I spent my weekend traveling (or that’s how it seemed). After work Friday afternoon, I took off for Auburn to hang out with an acquaintance and experience a little Auburn nightlife. We all went out for [...]

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Categories: Journal

Writer’s Block

by Matthew Smith · June 15th, 2006 · 1 Comment

As I sit here staring at my computer screen, with 5pm looming closer every minute, I find myself at a strange lack of words. At the top of the screen a long list of incomplete ideas, waits patiently for that sudden literary spark. Yes, I know, I should simply sit down and make myself write, [...]

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Categories: Journal · Musings

digivation.net - now no-www compliant

by Matthew Smith · June 13th, 2006 · No Comments

I am happy to report that digivation.net is now no-www compliant, thanks to Matt’s handy new Wordpress plugin that makes this far too easy (I seriously resent not playing with my .htaccess file). What exactly is “no-www compliance” you ask?
No-www.org philosophy

No-www.org strives to make the Internet and communications about it as fruitful as possible. To [...]

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Categories: Asides · Site Updates

Google Spreadsheets Invites

by Matthew Smith · June 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment

If anyone wants an invitation to Google Spreadsheets, just leave a comment to this post. You must have a Google Account to sign up.

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Categories: Asides · General

Job Title: Engineering Bitch

by Matthew Smith · June 8th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Yes, it would seem that this summer will be spent putting in good solid time as “the co-op,” “the intern,” or any other stereotype you can think of. However you cut the cake, I get to do the bitch work - that repetitive mindless stuff, like copying updates from one AutoCAD drawing to another, or [...]

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Categories: Journal

They’ve Got More Bling

by Matthew Smith · June 8th, 2006 · No Comments

I don’t know if you have run across this yet, but Dub Custom Wheels is producing a new line of wheels (rims) called the “Pimpstar.” These amazing rims (if you’ve got the $19,500 for the 26″ set - gotta go big on these babies) will definitely push your car over the edge and right into [...]

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Categories: Garage

Google Spreadsheets

by Matthew Smith · June 7th, 2006 · No Comments

A few days ago I was alerted to the development of a new Google tool, the Google Spreadsheet. Since I always like to check out the latest and greatest, I signed up for the beta test. So far the spreadsheet functions work quite well (better than I had first expected), though the formatting (especially on [...]

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Categories: Asides · General

Theme Changes

by Matthew Smith · June 6th, 2006 · No Comments

Since I have been procrastinating so horridly on updating the site with a truly unique style, I felt it was necessary to replace that boring blue bar with a somewhat interesting image. Hope you enjoy - I will try to rotate the images around a little bit (and maybe automate this eventually).

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Categories: Asides · Site Updates