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Circlejerks

The Twitterati got all hot and bothered earlier today when they found out MINUTES BEFORE EVERYONE ELSE that Tiger Woods was in a car accident. This is seen as some sort of validation of the awesome amazingness of the “real-time web.” Scoble was, ...

Dec 01, 2005
Blogs

Movable Type 3.2 Can Bite Me

Without a doubt, my absolute favorite keyboard shortcut in IE 6 is Alt+D, which moves focus to the address bar. Movable Type 3.2, which I just installed, thoughtfully overrides this keyboard shortcut with its access key for Delete. Sigh. C’mon guy...

Nov 27, 2005
Blogs

Site Redesign and More Pix

I’ve started on a site redesign, as you may have noticed. So far, the main page of the site and my résumé have been converted over. Still to come: the (woefully out of date) Code section, this Weblog, Photos, and the nonexistent About page. Addit...

Aug 13, 2004
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More brethorsting.com statistics fun

Here are a few Google searches from my statistics page from yesterday: “aaron brethorst” - someone actually googled me. I’m touched. “funniest picture ever” - I still come up amazingly high for this one. “irooster windows” - There’s definitel...

Jun 04, 2004
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Search Results

Periodically I’ll go through the referrer reports and statistics for my website here. I am always amused by the search terms that bring people here. The following is the latest list. search term ———– lincoln park trixies: yes - this actually ...

May 09, 2004
Blogs

the joys of template editing

I’m still working on configuring the look and feel of my MT3 blog. This is phenomenally slow, tedious work. On the plus side of things, it seems to be progressing in the direction of overall goodness. I hate blogging about blogs, so hopefully this...

May 08, 2004
Blogs

goddamn you to hell, MT!

MT 2.6 blew up on me after I did something kind of dumb. Basically, it’s not that graceful at recovering from errors. This seemed like as good a time as any to upgrade to MT3, though, so here we are. Let’s hope we can avoid comment spam this time ...

Aug 06, 2003
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movable type

so, it looks like my new domain is pretty much all working at this point. It took less than 24 hours for it to percolate through the DNS system. I’m impressed. Usually it takes a wee bit longer than that. As a sidenote, you may notice that I am u...