http://www.fredline.com in and around the US capital Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:19:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The introduction of consumer products with full-size touchscreen keyboards offers a unique opportunity to allow for the deprecation of the QWERTY layout in an incremental manner. Software can relatively easily allow for any keyboard layout one can imagine. Now users may elect to employ layouts that are not specifically designed to ... http://www.fredline.com/?p=136 Further illustration of the stratospheric potency of their lyrics, melodies, instrumentation and execution. Metric is an artistic juggernaut, miles and eons ahead of so many of our peers. This is from back in 2000 or so when it was just Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw making demos that are ... http://www.fredline.com/?p=93 Comedians are beautiful. They are generally free to speak the truth and elucidate the wild complexities of humanity, it's follies, and it's triumphs. It is vital that we reflect on our assumptions and acknowledge the reality of our milieu. We all come from wildly disparate backgrounds and circumstances yet we are ... http://www.fredline.com/?p=88 Kalalau Valley. Hey it IS pretty up here!Flickr'ed by fredline The trip was magical. I really feel we did the perfect thing dropping pops off the cliffs of the Kalalau Valley. It felt like standing in an artwork so beautiful it kinda hurt a bit. Soon after his ashes spread over ... http://www.fredline.com/?p=82 Pepper Dog! Too many goodbyes as we head towards another decade. Pepper departed peacefully at the vets office where we were fortunate to comfort her as she disembarked. Seems humans can learn a lot from dogs and from Pepper in particular. She endured a lot in her youth, yet she maintained ... http://www.fredline.com/?p=76 Fredric & ClementineFlickr'ed by D.C.Cedar M has been behind the camera all day, even caught the elusive "Clemmi in repose with legs flayed about in a questionably relaxed manner." Laying on a cool stone kitchen floor with your doggie on a warm spring evening, that's good stuff! http://www.fredline.com/?p=74 Thud says, "This year may you take holiday greetings in the spirit they are offered." The War on Xmas rabble-rousing really needs to go away, us versus them is the exact opposite of the spirit of the season. Go hug some loved ones, it's a limited time offer in the grand scheme ... http://www.fredline.com/?p=66 Only nine months into the Library of Congress’ pilot project placing Library photos on the Web site Flickr, the photos have drawn more than 10 million views! There are more details on the LC blog. It's nice to see the people as a whole get actual access to this content being ... http://www.fredline.com/?p=56 Another new activity on the myloc.gov site. Worked closely with Ed Outreach to rather quickly build a new map exploring experience from the ground up. Fun for the whole family! http://www.fredline.com/?p=54 Clemmi plays with her ball for everyone's amusement. Lhasa apso powers activate! Music by The Submarines! http://www.fredline.com/?p=36