My first Amazon purchase … 8 years later

Today is the 8th anniversary of my very first Amazon.com purchase. On May 7, 2000, I placed my first order on the book-selling web site for a paperback edition of Neal Stephenson’s “Cryptonomicon.” At that time I had no idea just how much stuff I would end up purchasing from Bezos’ brainchild over the next …

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Bullets are back!

I noticed yesterday, after posting my Vista rant, that my bulleted lists didn’t have bullets next to them. Doing some digging in the Thisaway (Blue) template I’m using, I found the following reference: .post li { padding: 0 0 4px 17px; background: url(http://www.blogblog.com/thisaway_blue/ icon_list_item.gif) no-repeat 0 3px; } Putting that URL into my browser, I …

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