Monthly Archives: February 2011

iKnowPeople 2.1.1 (and Lite!)

Posted on February 18, 2011 by MXH

I’ve got a couple of new releases of iKnowPeople available on the iTunes store. The big news is iKnowPeople Lite, which is a “freemium” version of the application. The iKP Lite app offers all the functionality of the full version, … Continue reading →

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Idiom Nazi: “Much Less”

Posted on February 17, 2011 by MXH

Today, a little rant in service to an attempt to quash one of the more irritating errors seen on the internet: the inversion of the proper order of “much less” phrases. “Much less” phrases appear in sentences such as: “The … Continue reading →

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Appeal to Authority

Posted on February 16, 2011 by MXH

Dave Gibbons (by and large) calls them “comic books”. I think you can safely drop the “graphic novel” pretension, fanboy.

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Six Word Stories: Failure

Posted on February 15, 2011 by MXH

Sometimes, things just don’t work out.

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Personal Growth

Posted on February 14, 2011 by MXH

The four stages of Valentine’s Day emotion: So ronery. Yay! A chance to show my snuggle-wumps how much I wuv her! ::Stress:: Yay! This is all some other chump’s problem! ::Skips down street::

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FOTY 1972: Foster / Finnegan

Posted on February 13, 2011 by MXH

This is an entry in an occasional series of posts looking back at the Ring Magazine Fights of the Year from 1970 to 2009. In 1972, Bob Foster defended his unified (WBC & WBA) Light Heavyweight championship against Chris Finnegan … Continue reading →

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Six Word Stories: The Next Logical Step

Posted on February 12, 2011 by MXH

Plant’s rights advocates protested outside Congress.

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Amateur Geometry

Posted on February 11, 2011 by MXH

Editorial Note: This one is mostly for me. I want to record my solution to a puzzle so that I can throw out my notes. A few days ago I began to play with the Platonic solids. (I was fooling … Continue reading →

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Humility

Posted on February 10, 2011 by MXH

Please read this brief except from the Wikipedia entry on the Castle Bravo nuclear test: The yield of 15 megatons was two and a half times what was expected. The cause of the high yield was a theoretical error made … Continue reading →

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Sprucing Up the Blog

Posted on February 9, 2011 by MXH

So, I updated from the old, default “Kubrick” theme to … the new, default “Twenty Ten” theme. Yep, still cheap. Anyway, I hope you like it. I think I’ve got most of the necessary tweaks moved over, but may be … Continue reading →

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