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I cannot state strongly enough my conviction that the preoccupation with consistency, so valuable for mathematical logic, has been incredibl...

i have invented some very powerful ways of wasting time. -- john d. conway we have no idea what "the center of our being" is, but ...

ruby on rails, up and running : away, for the most part. like spolsky, bruce tate continues to be taken seriously while remaining voluminous...

my dual g4 mac started locking up lately; i had some fleeting indications that one of the two disks was not entirely healthy. first i instal...

found in david mamet's bambi vs godzilla: on the nature, purpose and practice of the movie business A duck decoy does not need to look l...

doctorow's first six lectures from his undergrad class at the University of Southern California, "pwned: is everyone on campus a ...

sometimes, all i have with me is the 2mp camera built into my sony/ericsson w810i... square crop, minimal color correction and sharpening in...

What is sticking in your foot is a Mitzy "Pretty Lucretia" four-inch heel, the most dangerous footwear in the world. Considered as...

using a new tool to analyze some of my legacy sol8 systems for their patch levels. of all the patch tools i have used in the past [that of c...

what kills me is those software commentators whose limited observations and twisted metaphors border on postmodern literary drivel. take joe...

no, this is not about iphone critics. i am just referring to the increasingly nutty number of pixels on those wee sensors of digital point-...

mmmmm, i love the smell of commerce in the evening! -- francis [player vs player] a mature society is one that reserves its moral outrage fo...

from michael parsons review of iphone on times online : I want one. All the geeks I know want one. Once it's been delivered I'll wa...

evening train - the only dialogue between the pages. [oz/06. sigh, my conversational skills apparently no match for da vinci code .]

console output of my freshly booted thumper... SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118855-19 64-bit Copyright 1983-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc...

splunk: all batbelt. no tights. -- splunk page i can deal with all your girl stuff taking over my bathroom sink. i can deal with not farting...

amusement for the day: google patent search discovers that the flying machine patent belongs to one oltville wright...

blogging live: i have just unpacked a thumper with 48x500GB disks. oh, how far i have come since my first sun3/160 at york u dept of compute...

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