May 30

On a particularly messy day of web development, you might be faced with trying to find deprecated web pages among a pool of thousands upon thousands of pages within your website. This effect, magnified by a succession of webmasters past (complete with wildly divergent design philosophies) lead to a post pre-cambrian era of technological diversity. Unfortunately, this scenario was most notably non-hypothetical for me.

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May 15
Ghost in the iShell
icon1 benford | icon2 ihack, technology | icon4 05 15th, 2009| icon32 Comments »

 

Threre’s more progress on the iMac project now; the iShell (iMac sans the blinky bits) now is notably less shell like. Instead of being an empty vessel, fish tank materiel or a catbed, it now has a working lcd screen, and furhtermore, takes the cake as one of the world’s largest lcd monitors relative to its screen size.  

How, you might ask? More deatils after the break…
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