Author Archives: skierpage

About skierpage

As you might guess, my site is mine. My Schema.org info is at .

skiing: better gloves

Posted on 2012-03-26 by skierpage

My replacement Swany Flexor FX-15 gloves were terrible, so I got new gloves, as did a ski buddy. They’re both Gore-Tex with leather palms and fingers. They both have leashes so you can’t lose a glove. The Dakine Rover gloves … Continue reading →

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skiing: Swany trashes their reputation

Posted on 2012-03-26 by skierpage

I had a pair of leather Swany Flexor gloves for years. These have articulated fingers “technology created for NASA space missions.” Quality comfortable gloves. They worked well for about 7 years but finally the thumb gave way, probably because I … Continue reading →

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software: the future desktop environment

Posted on 2012-03-23 by skierpage

Since Windows blew up I’m happy enough running a free Linux desktop, the KDE environment running on the Kubuntu distribution. Three big Linux environments are all chasing a new vision: Gnome Shell, Ubuntu Unity, and KDE Plasma are all trying … Continue reading →

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web: RIP Google Wave

Posted on 2012-03-21 by skierpage

Google is shutting down wave.google.com. Back in 2009 it was the most exciting piece of software to come along in years. A real-time multi-user rich document editor!! So it can be a chat window, a collaborative Word document, a scrapbook, … Continue reading →

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cars: aftermarket versions as status symbols

Posted on 2012-03-02 by skierpage

When it comes to status symbol cars , I’m always reminded of this purveyor: Cars are an extension of ourselves, like DNA. And if you have the wrong DNA, you should be put out to pasture. When it comes to … Continue reading →

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web: ten thousand pages about a hundred ways to do any one thing

Posted on 2012-02-23 by skierpage

Developing stuff on the web isn’t hard, anyone can View > Source your work, someone made those billion web pages, and a lot of web designers promote themselves by writing about their work. In general this is great and we … Continue reading →

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web: say no to JavaScript templates you can’t try in a browser

Posted on 2012-02-23 by skierpage

Dear developers of JavaScript templating systems (all 23 of you), Instead of telling me that your baby runs in a browser and even showing me canned examples, let me interactively try it out! So Handlebars.js wins over EJS, jQote2, JSON … Continue reading →

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web: Conoco’s feedback form incompetence proves SPage’s Law

Posted on 2012-02-18 by skierpage

Conoco-Phillips-76 e-mails me that my February statement is available on their web site. No it isn’t, they only have statement activity. I want to help companies do a better job, so I try and tell them using their contact form … Continue reading →

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music: guitarist Steve Howe ignored

Posted on 2012-01-10 by skierpage

How can Steve Howe not be on the December 2010 Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Guitarists list? He was winning guitarist of the year polls throughout the 70s!! Even if you ignore his skills on classical, fingerpicking, flamenco, pedal steel, and … Continue reading →

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architecture: fixing SFMOMA

Posted on 2012-01-09 by skierpage

It looks like up-and-coming starchitects Snøhetta have figured out how to fix the bad Mario Botta design with their massive planned expansion. They junk that stupid ugly staircase peering out on the cheap siding lining the dull box of the original atrium.
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