Author: Toni Schneider
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Civil war days
Last weekend, I learned all about civil war reenactment. A few hundred reenacters camped out in a big field in Duncans Mills in their full 1863 outfits, weapons, and tents. In addition to cooking and sleeping in full period character, they reenacted several historic civil war battles. I’m not sure which battle we saw, but…
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1 billion web sites in 2013
Netcraft has been tracking the number of web sites on the internet for many years. Every month, they publish their latest numbers. As of May 2012, their chart shows close to 700 million sites (the blue line is the number of unique domains, the red one is sites with unique HTML which excludes placeholder templates…
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Why it’s so fun to modify a MacBook Air
My new MacBook Air has a nice, big, glowing WordPress logo on its lid. I like it a lot. Not just because it looks great, but as I realized the other day, because ripping open a MacBook and arranging some of its parts is so clearly not what Apple wants us to do. I’m old…
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Have you seen this truck?
A few weeks ago, my diesel Landcruiser got stolen in Berkeley. This happened to me once before, and the police found the truck a few days later. This time it hasn’t shown up, so I thought I’d ask the internet for help. Have you seen this truck parked or driving around San Francisco or the…
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Treasure Island 2012
Treasure Island, the man-made island that sits between San Francisco and Oakland, used to be a US Navy base and will be dramatically redeveloped over the next decade. Today, it’s a somewhat unreal place with boarded up and decaying buildings interspersed with a few athletic fields, homes, and businesses. I took a walk around there…
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Pizza making fun at the Automattic post-Holiday party:
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Why I Started PandoDaily
Sarah Lacy’s new news site launches. PandoDaily, TechCrunch, and Uncrunched are all hosted on WordPress.com.