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FATS Trail Work Party

Posted on 2006-08-26 by frank

This morning I met up with about a dozen other people to do some trail maintenance on the Fork Area Trail System, a really nice network of several intersecting trails just across the river from my house. This was my … Continue reading →

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Macports is trickier than it should be

Posted on 2006-08-25 by frank

macports, formerly Darwinports, looked to be a good, easy way to install and maintain a bunch of unix-based libraries and applications. After using it for a while, I see it has either design flaw or a documentation flaw. My use … Continue reading →

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Debugging cascading style sheets

Posted on 2006-08-24 by frank

While trying to figure out the style sheet’s on Andrea’s blog last weekend, I poked around Safari’s debug menu, thinking, they interpret these things hierarchically for rendering, so how hard could it be to build an inspector for it that … Continue reading →

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Sweet potato salad

Posted on 2006-08-22 by frank

We FINALLY brought a dish to Grandma’s birthday party that someone ate besides us: Sweet Potato Salad From: The Thrill of the Grill 4 medium sweet potatoes (about 2 pounds cut into uniform large pieces 1/2 red bell pepper, seeded … Continue reading →

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Pregnancy

Posted on 2006-08-21 by frank

Today it’s been hot in Evans — a high of 92 degrees fahrenheit and relative humidity of 65%. I could use a lot of cliches to describe the combination, from the sauna to the great beast that drives residents of … Continue reading →

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