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Sick of spam? Sue the bastards!
June 2002
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Beer Beer Beer Beer
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Went to the Capital City Beer Festival on Sunday. Heaven. What a glorious time we had… I can’t believe I’d never been. What a great idea. So many beers… Here’s the roundup, as much as I can remember: Not the worst beer I’ve tasted, but certainly deserving of the bottom spot on this list, Fin…
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Vivid Dreams
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So I’m quitting smoking… again. Every other time I’ve quit, I’ve gone cold turkey. Oh, except last time- I tried out Nicorette, the chewing gum… but it was gross – made my tongue go numb – so I couldn’t use it as much as you’re supposed to. This time I’ve decided to try Nicoderm, aka…
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On being scarce
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Sorry I haven’t been posting much of late – been on training and haven’t been in the office much. A little bit of a followup on my post, Thank you for your feedback. After I wrote that post, I decided to write back to Lori. I said basically the same thing, but with slightly nicer…
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Renaissance Now? A good read from one of my favourite authors about the world’s next (current) renaissance.
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Thank you for your feedback.
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So I racked up a few parking tickets over the past few months… (suddenly, parking control started enforcing the parking regulations on my street, and I slept in a few days and got dinged for parking in excess of the time limit). Last week, I decided that I should pay them lest they go to…
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Mulholland Drive analysis
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Ten Commandments of Egoless Programming – this should be required reading for every coder. I can think of a few people who need to learn these lessons.
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This week…
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Seems this week is shaping up to be a pretty busy one – gonna be on training for four days, so I don’t know how much I’ll be able to get around to posting… will try, for sure – at least a link or two. My roommate and I rented A Nightmare on Elm Street…
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Back in the day…
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This story on Salon has brought back some fond memories from my early days of BBSing in the basement of my parents home. Somewhere in the early-to-mid-eighties, my cousin Chris and I had been messing around for a number of years on our VIC20’s and Commodore64’s, learning the ins-and-outs of computers the hard way: line-by-painstaking-line……