Posts filed under 'technology'

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By kate on June 2nd, 2006

I got a Mac. As my desktop computer! It all happened so fast. One moment, Steve and I were talking about simply installing WordPress on our linux server. Before we knew it, the plan had changed and I was formatting my PC and building a new/better linux server (now on Fedora Core 4 instead […]

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Free Stuff

By kate on November 3rd, 2005

Steve lists some things we’re giving away as we clean out the basement. I expect this is just the first batch.

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Weird Science

By kate on July 15th, 2005

The folks at Weird Genius Real Science are really trying to get the word out about their second annual Science Fair tomorrow night (click the link for more details). Steve and I went last year, and it was a blast (figuratively and literally). It’s a science fair for bizarre, eccentric, and artistic adults. I […]

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Ch-Ch-Ch-Chia!

By kate on July 7th, 2005

Here’s a little art project I did at work recently (click for a bigger image): If you’re interested, they are radish plants and have been growing (from seeds) for five days.

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Technology mash-up

By kate on June 24th, 2005

Combine Google maps, text messaging, camera phones, tagging, social networking, and blogging and you get one of the coolest ideas I’ve seen in a while: Foundcity. It’s almost enough to make me consider giving up my Blackberry for a camera phone by the time they start a Seattle version… (Although not quite, because I could […]

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Name dropping… er, “sharing”

By kate on May 4th, 2005

Thanks to my job at a software startup in the “folksonomy” and social networking arena, I’ve been paying more attention to the interesting new websites out there. Suddenly, I find myself mentioning my new finds to people on a pretty much daily basis. I thought it might be worthwhile to make a list of all […]