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I’m a bit chagrinned to admit that having been mired in details I failed to see the obvious. In standard paper sizes (ISO 216) and pen-point sizes (ISO 128 &c), the square root of two is used as the interval between sizes, and between the short and long

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/06/19/politics/p060323D99.DTL Why is it even mildly scandalous that Barack Obama said that he’d take public money and then decided not to? Are there restrictions attached to the Presidential Campaign Fund that he doesn’t

[http://ghostdev.splicer.com/content/images/wordpress/2008/06/Photo_060508_001.jpg]It’s morning in El Cerrito—or is it Albany? I’ve never been certain about the borders here in the East Bay. I stopped at a Shell station to get fuel for the Guzzi and a

[http://ghostdev.splicer.com/content/images/wordpress/2008/05/Stella_3603.jpg]Pilot is quickly becoming my favorite pen manufacturer and my least favorite pen company at the same time. Their design and attention to detail is remarkable, their quality control appears to be currently unparalleled in the industry, and

I’d originally thought to title this post «Back to Paper», but the thing is, I’ve never before really used a paper organizer or calendar. I’ve tried a few over the years, of course, but nothing really took. In 1993 I gave up on keeping a paper address

(Please also read this follow-up to my experience with WeRecoverData.com [https://splicer.com/2008/10/23/werecoverdatacom-followup/]) Finally some good news in my ongoing hard drive drama. After removing the Seagate drive from the Acomdata enclosure and placing it into a new enclosure (a Macally, if anyone cares) the