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New Desk: Status Update #1

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Two weeks ago, I wrote about my desire to build a custom desk for my home office. Here’s what my dad and I have built so far.

The top is a solid-core birch door, 6 feet wide and 2 feet and 8 inches deep. It stands 31 inches tall, with legs built using pine. The top will have a quarter-inch thick sheet of glass on it, held in place by poplar trim. We are putting three holes in the back panel and the work surface (including through the glass) for cables to run, and installing a piece of gutter underneath (just inside the back panel) to keep excess cables from hitting the floor.

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On Moving From Tumblr to Wordpress

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Ian Hines:

With the recent Tumblr downtime incident fresh in everyone’s minds a lot of folks have, understandably, been considering moving from Tumblr to WordPress. I’ve made that journey twice and I can tell you that it is possible to move your site from Tumblr to WordPress without any significant front-end changes.

This exhaustive, end-to-end guide is simply brilliant.

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Jobs CEO of Decade

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Eugene Huo at Macgasm:

As the first decade of the 21st century draws to a close, Steve Jobs has been named the CEO of the decade by MarketWatch. Calling him the “rock star of Corporate America“, Jobs was praised for resurrecting Apple, and driving it to the top of the heap in the technology sector. Had you invested $1000 in Apple stock at the end of 2000, it would now be worth $43,000.

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Woz, on Control

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Steve Wozniak, via CNN:

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control. We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it’s not God.

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On Google Chrome OS

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Today, Google announced Chrome OS, a light-weight, Linux-based OS that is designed to get users online as quickly as possible.

The OS supports multiple accounts, offline access via HTML5 (if the web app supports it) and even cloud-based printing.

The iOS and Android universes are all about apps. Instead of using a browser to do simple tasks, most users prefer to use apps instead, since apps are far more powerful. Back in October, I wrote:

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ForkBombr Refresh Now Live

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After a couple of years with basically the same look and feel, I’m happy to announce that ForkBombr’s overhaul for 2011 is complete.

The look is now far more minimal, with more white space, slightly larger text and a revamped sidebar that should make content more easily accessible. The logo (done by my friend Carl Fox) has gotten some fresh paint and the Archives have been reworked from the ground up.

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Tumblr Makes Statement on Downtime

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Tumblr:

While you might feel like you’ve gotten used to seeing errors on Tumblr recently, know that this is absolutely unacceptable to our team, and unacceptable for a platform determined to be the best place in the world for your creative expression.

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We can’t apologize enough, nor can we thank you enough for putting up with these growing pains. We know how impossibly frustrating it is to see your work offline. But please always know that we truly care about your work as much as you do, and we have an incredibly capable team working incredibly hard to take good care of it.

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