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Monthly Archives: December 2007

Thoughts on Moving to OS X

Monday, December 3, 2007

My MacBook is continuing wending its way to me from Shanghai; it should arrive sometime before Wednesday (there is even a chance that it will be delivered this morning). More interesting than the fact that I decided to buy a MacBook (as opposed to a Thinkpad or Sony Vaio or any other model of laptop) [...]

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Book Review: I am Legend

Monday, December 3, 2007

A review of I am Legend, a tale of apocalypse, societal rebirth, and vampirism.

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Photo Exporter, an Application for Facebook

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Photo Exporter has been renamed Photo Download. Please download the latest version at http://www.marteydodoo.com/photo-download/
Photo Exporter is an application for exporting your photographs from Facebook. You can export either all photos where you have been tagged or all albums that you have uploaded. I wrote this application because one of my friends lost a year's worth [...]

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Movie Review: I Am Legend

Monday, December 24, 2007

A review of I Am Legend, a 2007 film starring Will Smith as a human survivor of a virus that has turned almost everyone else on Earth into bloodthirsty vampires.

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Using Custom Redirects in .htaccess with WordPress' Canonical URL Feature

Sunday, December 30, 2007

WordPress 2.3 introduced a feature called Canonical URLs. Its purpose is noble - to ensure that your site's content is only available at one URL. The creator of this feature, Mark Jaquith, has written a thorough explanation of the concept, which you should read if you are confused yet still interested.

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Legend of the Lost Penguin

Sunday, December 30, 2007

The other day, I was having a conversation when the topic shifted to penguins. I told an entertaining story about how the cousin or nephew of one of my friends (I couldn't remember which friend had told me the story, much less the exact relation of the protagonist) had stolen a penguin from a zoo [...]

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Esoteric Technical Things to Do in Airports

Monday, December 31, 2007

I am currently sitting in a terminal at JFK, which reminds me of my sojourn in Heathrow earlier this year.[1] JetBlue has configured free wireless hotspots, which is nice, but I do not want to wake up on New Year's Day to find my Google Account hijacked and my domain stolen, so I cannot simply [...]

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