June 2009
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The Ant
How resolute the ant.
When traveling, she firmly plants
Her feet upon the ground. She must,
For, if you were to let a gust
Of breath escape your lips,
Poor ant would sail away like ships
Borne hapless by the gale.
But, though she spin and flail,
She would land aright again,
Undaunted and begin
Whatever task she left before
With firm her feet upon the floor.
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FINRA Fund Analyzer →
Compares the performance of mutual funds and index funds. Regardless what you think of FINRA, this tool has been incredibly useful in helping me reason about funds by summarizing and comparing their vital stats.
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SpriteMe →
Another Steve Souders tool that looks through your site design and groups images together that are easily spriteable. Coming soon (according to Steve): integration with smush.it and css sprite generator.
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ShareThis links on your tumblog
Those nifty buttons are a great way to make your blog a better place for your readers. ShareThis has worked pretty hard at making them easy to integrate into your site. When you sign up, you get some button code that you can plop down inside your post (like I did earlier in this paragraph), or better yet, inside your post template next to the comment button.
This is fine for a single post, but...
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blog upgrade!
The first things to go were all my tweets that were cluttering these pages (death by a thousand pecks?). Now my twitter status is relegated to the sidebar where it belongs.
With the everyday tweets out of the way, I kept the most insightful and interesting content (from my own perspective, of course), moved twitpic images right onto the blog, and turned the witty tweets into quotes.
For more...
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Help our friends in Iran →
If you know your way around linux and have hardware (or better yet, vms), please help.
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“Science is making rules from effects. Engineering is making effects from rules.”