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Book haikus
One service of the Finding Substance blog is to spread inspiration and ideas around the world. By providing brief synopses of inspirational and influential books I’ve read, I’ll attempt to sum up the gems of knowledge f…
8 November 2006
My relationship with Northwest Airlines
Over the summer I did a lot of traveling, and primarily used Northwest Airlines. Long flights to and from Hawaii for work and a couple cross-country trips for business and family. Enough to qualify for Silver Elite status. This is …
1 November 2006
TUL graphology
A few months ago, there was a postcard in our copy of Dwell. My wife filled it out; it was a handwriting analysis sample promotion by TUL (what’s the key command to make the line over the ‘u’?). She wrote out the…
26 September 2006
thinkAbout 2006
I had the opportunity to attend the thinkAbout conference (or is it just thinkAbout?) on September 13th and 14th in Baltimore, MD. Here’s the basic rundown: the conference, in it’s 9th year, is organized by Joe Pine an…
HP gets into the diet business
HP has released some new cameras with built in “slimming effect.” Basically, it looks like the camera has the ability to reduce the horizontal scale of the photo. For example, in the photo above, they shaved 6 pixels o…
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