Tip of the Quill: A Journal

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U2’s “Vertigo” leaked to the web!

Most excellent – MP3s of U2’s new single, “Vertigo”, have started appearing online. Links to where you can obtain your oh-so-illegal-yet-oh-so-buzzworthy copy are here: U2log.com: It’s Vertigo! Man, I am so stoked. The new song is really cool, with Achtung Baby-esque echo effects but with some kick-ass growly guitar courtesy of our good Master Edge. […]

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It’s so true.

Rstevens over at Diesel Sweeties hits the nail on the head today: Kids of the 90s suck.

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My old Kentucky home coffeeshop.

This post is being written from this really nifty little cafe in Louisville, Kentucky called Heine Brothers. Good coffee, free wi-fi, nifty wooden bench seating (which, when done right, can be quite comfortable) and attached to an equally cool little bookstore, this place has just entered my list of Favorite Coffeeshops. Which, come to think […]

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Precisely the kind of dork I am.

It is a Monday night. It has been a very good, very productive day – mattwelton.com, one of my little client gigs, got out the door safely, a couple other client projects moved forward, I did the laundry, took out the trash, snagged some halfway decent chicken biryani for dinner, and now am looking around […]

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Greenfield vs. Winer.

I admire both Dave Winer and Adam Greenfield for different reasons, but when Adam lays the smack down I just have to cheer. Good on ya, mate – let him have it.

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Hey, where’d I go?

For those of you wondering where I disappeared to recently, you should know that upgrading to Movable Type 3.0 is a bitch. Importing a 21MB database has been a ridiculous failure, simply sputtering out and dying after sometime in late 2003. I am reluctant to lose so much history here, but at the same time […]

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Subscriptions in Safari?

So just about the only thing I miss from Internet Explorer is the ability to “subscribe” to sites – in other words, the ability to scan down and see when your favorite sites have been updated without actually visiting them. That was cool. I wonder if someone’s built a plugin for Safari that would enable […]

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Upgrades: The Realization of Magellan.

Thanks to a couple gigs finally paying off, and thanks to the Refurbished section at The Apple Store, I am at long last in a position to start realizing my dreams of a personal command center. This morning my new dual-2GHz G5 with 23″ Cinema HD display showed up via the FedEx guy, and I’ve […]

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Bill Maher on the Bush 9/11 Campaign.

Following up on yesterday’s wish for someone to stand up and lay down the law, my good man Ken posted this yesterday, and I think it’s hysterical. In case you don’t read his blog (and why not?), I’m reposting it here: “And finally, New Rule: You can’t run on a mistake. Franklin Roosevelt didn’t run […]

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Sometimes I don’t get Democrats.

So Cheney gets up there and basically says, “If you elect John Kerry we’re going to be attacked by terrorists.” (What he actually said was more vague, closer to “If this country makes the wrong decision in November, we’re more likely to be attacked by terrorists”, but what he meant was pretty clear.) And today […]

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