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One last interview October 31, 2003
I think that this should be the last of my posts regarding my recent notoriety. Tech news site BetaNews interviewed me about the entire affair yesterday, and the interview has just been posted on their site.
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And I thought the politicians were scary October 31, 2003
Here’s a fun little Halloween story that I’d not heard before. Apparently, the U.S. Capitol Building is haunted!
Posted in Links.
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Look out! Pornography! Duck! October 31, 2003
I can’t tell you how much safer and more secure I feel about the world around me to know that our dearly beloved President declared the week of October 26th to November 1st, 2003, to be Protection From Pornography Week.
Posted in Politics.
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People must like my design October 30, 2003
There is a potential downside to a good site design that I hadn’t foreseen — that being people ripping it off. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Posted in Website.
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‘Big Mac’ details October 30, 2003
Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan, the head of Virginia Tech’s recent construction of a 1,100-node Power Mac G5-based supercomputer (currently tentatively ranked as the 3rd fastest supercomputer in the word) gave a talk at the O’Reilly Mac OS X conference this week.
Posted in Technology.
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My inner fanboy just had an orgasm October 30, 2003
Whoever wins…we lose.
Posted in Film.
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Is Boing Boing broken? October 30, 2003
While the current page is certainly friendly and cheerful, it’s not quite the Boing Boing I’m familiar with.
Posted in Links.
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Are you on the blacklist? October 30, 2003
The NRA has a 19-page ‘blacklist’ of groups, associations, companies and individuals known to support gun control legislation posted on their website. Feeling left out ‘cause you’re not on it? Sign up to be added!
Posted in Politics.
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More E-voting issues October 30, 2003
The security breaches and known vulnerabilities of the current E-voting systems make it clear that in their present state, they cannot be trusted — and I, for one, would greatly prefer it if I could be sure that my vote in 2004 goes to the candidate I intend it to.
Posted in Politics.
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Automatic defrag in Panther October 29, 2003
Everytime an application opens a file for reading, HFS+ checks if the file is fragmented and is less than 20MB in size. If so, it copies the file’s contents to a continuous region on the disk and frees up the previously allocated blocks.
Posted in Technology.
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I always knew she was evil! October 29, 2003
New from Mattel, just in time for Halloween — Secret Spells Barbie!
Posted in Links.
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Two days to Halloween… October 29, 2003
…and I still don’t have a costume. Maybe I should go as Bill Gates?
Posted in Links.
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Thank you! October 28, 2003
Many thanks to all of you who’ve passed on words of encouragement. Here’s some answers to a few of the questions that have been brought up over all this.
Posted in 15Minutes, Life, Microsoft.
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Of blogging and unemployment October 27, 2003
And that simply, as of about 2pm today, I once again joined the ranks of the unemployed.
Posted in 15Minutes, Life, Microsoft.
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Nothing to see here…move along… October 27, 2003
The White House is excluding Google and other search engines from indexing any whitehouse.gov page with ‘iraq’ in the address. Can’t go making real information easy to find, now can we?
Posted in Politics.
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Gene Robinson under FBI guard October 27, 2003
The lengths that people will go to in their homophobia in the name of religion is really scary. Bishop-elect Gene Robinson is currently under 24-hour FBI protection due to death threats.
Posted in Religion.
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Ash to ash, dust to dust October 27, 2003
The stories posted of people coming out to find ash covering everything do sound very familiar, though — only for me, it was due to volcanoes.
Posted in Current Affairs.
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Bush’s plans to expand the Patriot Act October 26, 2003
President Bush doesn’t think the current Patriot Act is good enough. In an attempt to ‘close loopholes’ in the original legislation, he’s proposed three very frightning changes.
Posted in Politics.
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Panther goodies October 26, 2003
Lots of interesting tips and tricks for Panther are showing up on the web now that it’s been out a few days. Some of the niftier ones I’ve run across so far:
Posted in Technology.
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Bush in Oz October 26, 2003
While it’s certainly no surprise, apparently Bush’s visit was heavily stage managed to make sure he got the most possible accolades, and the fewest possible questions…
Posted in Politics.
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Kill Bill, Vol. 1 October 26, 2003
I’m going to keep my comments here fairly brief, as this is only the first part of a two-part story. So, briefly, first impressions of the first half of Kill Bill…
Posted in Film.
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Ooooh…spooky! October 26, 2003
Seeing as how we’ve found our way into Halloween week, I thought I’d find some appropriate colors for the week. Enjoy!
Posted in Website.
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