William M. Hartnett

Like, 90 percent sure. But don’t worry, because my wife isn’t sure about the date, either. Was it the 14th or the 17th? Can anyone who was there help us out? It must be in some paperwork somewhere. Anyway, what a year, or 362 days, it’s been!

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I’ve been keeping it pretty Southern the past few Paper View Mondays, so let’s head west to The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, out in western Colorado. In the interest of completely irrelevant and totally uninteresting disclosure, I’ll just point out that The Daily Sentinel is owned by Cox Newspapers, the very same charming, well-dressed [...]

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Feature story is about Elayne and Marvin Mordes, a West Palm Beach couple who turned a 10,000-square-foot warehouse into a home and gallery for their extensive modern art collection. Neighborhood of the week is Delaire Country Club in Delray Beach.
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Putting blogs into context - IHT.com Developer Blog
“Over the past few months we’ve run multiple click tests and reports showed that the Blogs box was performing dismally. … Visitors are not coming to traditional news sites to peruse a bucket of blogs, so context is more important than visibility.”
(tags: web-design newspaper.com blogs)

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A Taste for Brews That Go to Extremes - New York Times
“Whether doubling ingredients like malt or hops, or adding flavorings undreamed of by Old World brewers, American brewers have created a style that beer enthusiasts both love and hate.
(tags: beer nyt)

The Darjeeling Limited screenplay (PDF) - Fox Searchlight
A 4.55 MB, 107-page PDF. Repeat, it’s [...]

zigGIS 2.0 Official Announcement - Abe Gillespie
“For over two years zigGIS has enabled ArcView to view and analyze PostGIS layers. New to version 2.0 is the ability to edit PostGIS data as well as support for Microsoft SQL Server 2008.”
(tags: gis ziggis postgis esri)

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Yet another semi-timely Paper View Monday, given last week’s news that The Roanoke Time’s parent company, Landmark Communications, may be headed for a sale. You can almost make out the press through those big windows in this shot, as grabbed from Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture below to map-fiddle.

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I think I’ve talked more than enough talk in the past 11 months, so how about a little walking for once? I’ve been headed in this direction for quite some time, but now it’s official: I’m joining the web staff full time. Starting now-ish, I’m The Palm Beach Post’s online innovations editor.
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The scandal of Africa’s trafficked players - Guardian Unlimited Football
“They come to Europe to play for AC Milan or Paris St-Germain, but the reality for many talented young African footballers … is that they will find themselves selling fake handbags on the streets.”
(tags: soccer africa)

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