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Merynn got a new book and while reading it to her, we came across this picture.

Is this racist? A “babygro?” Is that a play on words for black babies or something?

Haven’t had the time to read through all the articles and tutorials, but here are two resources for bloggers, a CSS Layout Tutorial and Blogging for Beginners.

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Aveda Concept Spa and Salon, Elements Hawaii, will be featured in Sunday’s Star Bulletin. Actually, I think the profile will focus on the owners who changed careers, leaving the legal field, to start the spa.

Anyways, check out Sunday’s Business section.

Can’t seem to find the article yet. Maybe it got pushed back?

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The NBA 2006 All Star Game is coming up on Sunday, February 19. Shoe companies are setting up their All Stars with custom kicks.

For the most part, I think these All Star kicks are ugly, but whatever.

More pics at Hypebeast and Nike Basketball.

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Sony is discontinuing its Walkman Bean introduced in late 2005. Wow, that was fast. Seems like I just made fun of it not that long ago. iPod domination?

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Microsoft is officially making its move away from FrontPage with the announcement of its “Next Generation of Web Authoring and Design Tools,” Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer.

Read the Press Release for a description of the two applications.

Back in the day when I was playing around with the initial releases of SharePoint, I felt there was no easy or good way of customizing SharePoint sites. Editing files was a hassle, building Web Parts takes know-how, and FrontPage could modify some parts of SharePoint sites but not enough. Maybe splitting FrontPage into two apps is a good move for SharePoint users.

Been reading quite a few stories about Apple building up good karma. There’s the one about Apple giving MacBook Pros to 12 contributors to the WebKit project. Now that MacBook Pros are starting to ship, buyers got a surprise with a no-cost processor speed bump. Those who ordered 1.8 GHz processors are getting 2.0 GHz models, and the 1.67 GHz processors have been upped to 1.8 GHz.

Not directly from Apple but close enough, Lexus owners who bought an IS250AWD had to wait for the car due to a Lexus recall. As a gift for their patience, Lexus gave these buyers a loaner car and a iPod Nano with a car adapter.

And lastly, as hackers try to reverse engineer the new Intel-based Mac OS X, they’re finding poems heeding the hackers to stop. The poem reads:

Your karma check for today: There once was a user that whined/his existing OS was so blind/he’d do better to pirate/an OS that ran great/but found his hardware declined./Please don’t steal Mac OS!/Really, that’s way uncool./(C) Apple Computer, Inc.

A very cool way to run business.

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I, Cringely is back with a thought-provoking column about Apple and Blockbuster joining forces for movie distribution.

Here’s the scenario:

Take your Video-out iPod to Blockbuster, drop it in a kiosk dock then download from… your choice of 50,000 movies… Take the iPod home, drop it in the dock attached to your TV and watch the movie. H.264 decoding takes place in the iPod in hardware.

Very simple really, and you know what the Technologist Manifesto says about simple solutions, right? Use it.

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Just curious who’s going. Got to RSVP by Thursday.

First, read the excellent introduction of the purpose of a technologist and why you should be translucent. Then read the Technologist Manifesto…, or Things Everyone in IT Should Know.

Never did see this, but Google has an online store where they sell Google branded products. All kinds of stuff from clothes, office items, dog collars, and baby clothes. They even sell gear with the Blogger logo. Neat!

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Don’t quit your day job quite yet. It ain’t easy making a living off of blogging alone. Some people have done it, but it’s waaay hard.

You should have at least 100 pages of high-quality content in the can.

Maybe my rants about work could qualify as “high-quality” content?