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if you were bored enough to google for (say) "python networking tools" you would end up with numerous impoverished ad-pusher ...

a worthwhile shuffle II review in macintouch. i agree with most of it; i do belong to that portion of the male population who cannot tell g...

while everyone is switching to firefox 2.0, i have switched to omniweb . so far a great browsing experience, well worth $14 for a family pa...

added some 700 books to the librarything . [alas pssst keeps giving me the same set of hits from other libraries. sigh. found a large overl...

several macs, several itunes libraries, some ipods. once in a while, it is simpler to copy a tune off of my ipod than to rsync from my main...

librarything : best thing that ever happened to my library...

a disqueting white paper: intelligent design, science education and public reason by robert a crouch, richard b. miller and lisa h. sideris...

autumn light flickering with leaves - train dreaming. red traffic light - a flock of sparrows twirl and pass. [oz/2006]

i have now been back in the IT space for nearly two months. with an enormous number of projects and issues on the go, i find that i really, ...

sony's new portable reader system can (for now) only support (unsecured) BBeB Book, adobe® pdf, txt, and of course, as a survival necess...

finally i have the hardware to run aperture and lightroom side-by-side. my current preliminary view is that aperture really is a better thou...

interesting if not entirely edifying discussion of closures in java, from jag's blog entry titled black hole theory of design. i suppo...

latest draft of r6rs released. [as a scheme implementor, i wish this fine language mattered more. instead, its imitators with clunky syntax...

found in charlie's diary entry spinning the hamster wheel: One of the dirty little secrets of the computing industry is that staffing r...

second episode of house, cane & able , ends with a moving ballad: gravity is working against me and gravity wants to bring me down next...

So, when the intelligent design folks announce with great fanfare that the bacterial flagellum is too complex to be explained by natural sel...

have a way with their passwd files... # cat >> /etc/passwd z1:x:999999:999999:xanadu-z1:/tmp:/opt/extras/zoneshell ^D [found i...

blog check check, one two three... testing, testing... [sun community blogs not picking up mine...] [update: it picked up the test. will it ...

panda's thumb shreds and discards The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design [political incorrectness is not ne...

new macbook. new aperture 1.1. installs and runs just fine. upgrade 1.1.1 and 1.1.2... all of a sudden, my macbook at 1280x800 is not good e...