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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
This blog talks about events, places and things in my life.


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Monthly Archives: May 2007
Domainers
The man who owns the Internet – Kevin Ham Domain Name System shows signs of stress from financial maneuverings Maximize revenue on your parked pages with Google AdSense for domains Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to … Continue reading
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Skype Available on Blackberry
I just found out that Shapeservices has a working mobile Skype client for Blackberry cell phone models for $25. Their cell phone site is at wap.shapeservices.com. This is awesome for me because I use Skype and Yahoo! chat for work. … Continue reading
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Dual Booting Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux
Playing around with Ubuntu Feisty desktop linux on my home PC. Kind of tricky to setup multi-boot with Windows because I’m using a 2001 motherboard (old 2003 BIOS) with a large hard drive (300 GB) not in LBA mode. My … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, Open Source, Tech, Toys
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Mac FilmMakers Meeting
Another great Mac FilmMakers’ meeting this month at Apple in Cupertino. Jim T. did a nice Ken Burns-style presentation on “Angkor Wat featuring Roots”. Some technical details: iPhoto, Photomagico early like 0.1, Kitaro Canon 20D, lots of CF cards Joanne … Continue reading
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Adobe’s Localization Frankenstein
Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0/Photoshop Elements 5.0 was about 40% off at Fry’s last week, so I bought it to play around with. Installing reveals a localization Frankenstein: users are asked 3 separate times which language to install Premiere Elements in … Continue reading
Posted in i18n, Photography, Tech
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