Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: March 2008


Oh, man.  This is going to be an expensive week.  First Laura and I spent the afternoon shopping for supplies at the mall today, then I came home to find that Jim Butcher’s next Harry Dresden novel, A Small Favor, comes out on Tuesday, as does the new album by R.E.M.  Both of these I knew […]

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This is sad: after five years, What Do I Know?, the weblog of designer extraordinaire Todd Dominey, is closing its virtual doors. What he says is true – the site has been a virtual ghost town for months. Yet still it had a place of pride in my Inspirations folder, the collection of blogs from […]

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Open your eyes as wide as you can, Make your pupils islands in the middle of moon-white seas, And count the shades of blue you can discover in your periphery (Cerulean, turquoise, navy, aquamarine, etc.) — Be specific, be minute, be exact and precise, Tick them off on your fingers and toes and follicles, Rattle […]

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It’s taken me long enough, but I’m finally beginning to understand some of the bizarre intricacies of MT4.  I’m still annoyed that some stuff that should be easier simply isn’t, and I’m equally annoyed that there aren’t more resources available online for MT4 yet (there are big gaps of 6A’s official documentation that simply read […]

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Two things can be learned from the following story: A foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama resigned on Friday after calling campaign rival Hillary Clinton a “monster” during an interview with a British newspaper. Samantha Power, a foreign policy aide on the Illinois senator’s White House campaign, said the comments were inexcusable. They were published on […]

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