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10/31/07
When my wife and I re-opened The Attic Bookstore in a new location, we also created a new theme for the store: Gothic-haunted. The place is full of skulls, dark art, creepy stuff and even animatronics. But to try to make a 1970s commercial building more ‘haunted’ we tried to acquire some things that were ‘really’ haunted. Statues, paintings, voodoo dolls, etc. Turns out, you can get these on eBay. Really. There are people that sell things that they claim are haunted all the time.
Check out this list of Weird Haunted Items From eBay for some auctions going on right now. Some of them are hilarious. It is obvious that they are really worthless trinkets that someone is trying to sell at 10x the price. But, still, the stories are fun to read.
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10/27/07
I was probably crazy for doing it, but I took my MacBook Pro, still protected by AppleCare, and replaced a very noisy fan. Made a video of it too. I just could go a week without my laptop, which is what probably would have happened if I sent it in. Plus, I read a lot of horror stories of people sending in their machines for noisy fans and getting them back just as noisy.
Anyway, it all went well. Took only about 30 minutes. But I got lucky. I could have easily slipped up and ended up with a $2,500 paperweight.
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10/26/07
I’ve just posted a ton of video about Leopard over at MacMost. Also, a full review. I love it so far, a much better jump from Tiger to Leopard than it was from Jaguar to Tiger. Lots of useful things for people like me: Spaces, Time Machine, Automator, Mail Notes, Web Clipping Widgets, etc.
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10/16/07
When a company does something wrong, bloggers love to hit them. But you don’t see enough unsolicited blog posts about companies that do things right. I have never bought tickets to anything outside of official channels. But I wanted to see the Rockies in the playoffs, so I bought tickets through StubHub.com. I was very impressed by their professionalism. The Web site worked well, and their system of getting the tickets to you worked perfectly. Best of all, I was able to see my team win the Pennant because of them. Just felt like they deserved some praise. I’ll use them again.
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10/07/07
Check out this forum post detailing what was revealed about Director 11 at the recent MAX conference. Officially, Adobe still says that Director 11 will be out this year. Also interesting in this post: Flash 9/AS3, unicode and Intel Mac.
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