Daily Archive for March 28th, 2007

Dr. Biggly’s Toolbar Heaven

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Jeremy Clifton
on March 28, 2007
in Geeky Stuff
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Think you’ve seen Internet Exploder on Windows with a few too many toolbars? You ain’t seen nuthin’ until you’ve seen … Dr. Biggly’s Toolbar Heaven. I think I counted at least twelve … and there’s no telling how much non-toolbar producing malware is on there in addition to the visible stuff …

Back on the GTD Wagon

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Jeremy Clifton
on March 28, 2007
in Getting Things Done and Twitter Updates
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I have, as I mentioned a few days ago, started reading Getting Things Done again. I’ve started writing things down again. I’m nearly back to the same point in the book where I was before I lost the time to read in back in January. We’ll see if I can actually get further along this time. Yes, I know I need to post more photos. They will be coming soon …

Yes, I changed the name …

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Jeremy Clifton
on March 28, 2007
in Just Plain Random
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Once upon a time, there was a guy who thought he was going to maintain a personal blog as well as a business blog. However, he never, ever, ever posted anything on the business blog, and seemed to sometimes sporadically post on the personal blog.

As if that weren’t bad enough, the personal blog was hosted on a domain that had been registered once upon a time when he wanted to start a business focusing on web design (rather than development) … the very nifty strych9design.com domain. But somehow, a personal blog hosted on ’strych9design.com’ just didn’t feel right. It didn’t even match the focus of the blog.

So one day, in a fit of madness, he decided to register four-eight-four.org, and rename his blog … and (gasp) have work-ish and personal-ish stuff there.

He figured it was appropriate, since his business is officially “Four-Eight-Four Software Works, LLC” … it’s sort-of related to the business, but not completely, hence the .org.

So what’s with this “four-eight-four” stuff?

Well, you see, it’s a railroading term. A locomotive of the 4-8-4 type has four leading wheels (on two axles), eight driving wheels (on four axles) and two trailing wheels (you guessed it, on two axles). A fine example of this particular classification is the Norfolk & Western J Class … one of my favorite locomotives of all time.

So there you have it. Maybe I’ll get back to regular posting now.