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· Naughties
· · 2003
· · · December
· · · · 15 (3 entries)
Buck 65 · A couple of months ago, I got a plain brown envelope at the office. It contained a CD by something called Buck 65 along with a poorly-photocopied promo blurb from Warner Brothers. It got lost in the papers in a corner of the desk but just fell out so I stuck it in the Mac. Herewith a shameless attempt to become part of the music marketing food-chain, and the stuff isn’t bad either ...
DynDNS, Dig It · This is just a plug for DynDNS.org, who provide all sorts of useful services related to DNS and mail. Basically they take care of a bunch of things that in an ideal world shouldn’t be necessary: If you have broadband but your DNS keeps shifting; if you can’t get to your ISP’s mail-sending SMTP machine; and so on. Some of the services are free, and the rest are ridiculously cheap, and it seems to Always Just Work. Check it out.
On Bulleted Lists and Evil · The recent polemic against PowerPoint by Edward Tufte (there’s a nice précis over at Wired) has been echoing around the ideasphere, with coverage in the Times and in many blogs and mailing lists. I’m a frequent public speaker and care a lot about this; herewith some thoughts and advice, along with a bit of routine Microsoft-bashing ...
