Thursday, May 19th, 2005
Now before I give a little out shout out to all my wonderful fellow bloggers that I met tonight at the brew pub – aka name dropping and trackback hunting – forgive me while I rant for a moment about the travesty of public transportation that is the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. The problems [...]
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Wednesday, May 18th, 2005
This is just a variation on a tried and true flash game, but I am loving Plague of Kittens. I’m about to head out to the Gothamist.com meeting over at the Independence Brew Pub followed by the Philly Blogger Meetup. Hopefully meet some new and interesting people. RIP The Infallibles…We hardly knew ye.
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
I’m starting a new feature here on SkaroffBlog. It’s going to be an entry dedicated to miscellaneous, interesting, controversial, or just cool links that I want to feature but am too lazy to give a write up to. New one each week and here’s the inaugural thread. Delay Rankings. US real wages fall at fastest [...]
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Monday, May 9th, 2005
First of all I’ve completely overhauled the blog template to present something much more readable. I liked the minimalism of the old template but on my rapidly failing CRT in my bedroom some of the text wasn’t even visible against black background. Since I’m still lacking a real logo I’ve moved Homer over to the [...]
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Friday, May 6th, 2005
We’ve determined that Tim’s glasses look better on me. Kurt pointed me towards a clip of a fantastic young Swedish vocal band, Riltons Vänner. I could listen to their soprano sing all day.
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
I posted the other day and briefly mentioned Yahoo’s new traffic RSS feed. If you fed it your city name or zip code it would give you an XML file with current traffic information. Cool, but not that practical for most people. Well now Greg has tied it all together with GoogleMaps. Tell it your [...]
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
We didn’t expect them to win. We hoped for that improbable upset. If anyone can do it, it’s the Answer. But last night the Sixers and Iverson fell short in their quest for a championship and bowed out of the NBA playoffs after a 4-1 defeat by the defending Detroit Pistons. Iverson was a beast [...]
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Monday, April 4th, 2005
Cities are wonderful and awful places. They teem with life and activity and are our centers of culture and art. But they are also inhabited by poverty and crime. A walk through a great city can be can be an uplifting experience full of the remarkable bustling energy of modern Americanism or it can be [...]
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Consumer Reports: Complaint Rates for Cellular Providers The Best of Photojournalism 2005 Apple’s OS X 10.4 Tiger available for pre-order The Mobile Music Blog Oh No! TiVo tests pop up ads What’s Next For Apple? A fantastic show of live acoustic music from Nugs.net Robert “Douchebag of Freedom” Novak says we’re pulling out of Iraq [...]
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