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2005-11-14T18:02:00.000-08:00

Book #50: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon

Posted: 2005-10-14T15:54:27-07:00

Source: OK, my 50th book of the year is a re-read, but it had been a few years. But after the Baroque Cycle, I needed to catch all the references between the two. And it was a massive re-read. I'm...

2005-11-08T19:24:00.000-08:00

Ruby, Rails and The Art of Software Development

Posted: 2005-10-21T00:11:06Z

Source: Those of you working with Ruby/Rails may find this to be of some interest: I have posted the slides from my presentation, delivered to the Vancouver Ruby users group on September 27, 2005. You can view the slides if you go to my web site.

2005-11-07T08:49:00.000-08:00

Changes in my life...

Posted: 2005-10-04T16:31:19-07:00

Source: Well, it's been a busy month, and I haven't written much. But events are shaking out a bit, and I'm free to write about them now. My aunt passed away last week, seemingly in her sleep. She was our...

2005-11-06T03:09:00.000-08:00

I deleted the previous 2 posts, because when I loo...

Posted: 2005-10-03T00:45:50Z

Source:

I deleted the previous 2 posts, because when I look back at everything that happened they now just seem silly. I'll update everything on the site this week, and I'm in the process of creating some "Top 5" lists. I'll get those posted this week... should be fun. Stay tuned... C-ya.

2005-11-05T15:35:00.000-08:00

Little Help?

Posted: 2005-10-11T23:01:45Z

Source: Greetings fellow lesscode advocates. For those of you who don’t know me, I’m an industry analyst with RedMonk, and as a couple of the folks here can probably attest, I take every opportunity to push your message and your values on an unsuspecting population of software vendor customers. Ryan’s been gracious enough to grant me [...]

2005-11-05T03:52:00.000-08:00

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2005-10-23T00:24:00.000-07:00

NATION IN BRIEF

Posted: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Source: NEW YORK -- A three-alarm fire in a subway storage room in Manhattan disrupted the morning commute for tens of thousands straphangers and injured 13 firefighters.

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2005-10-19T17:29:00.000-07:00

"I think trash is the most important manifestation of culture we have in my
lifetime."
- Johnny Legend

2005-10-19T11:47:00.000-07:00

It's been a late, late night. So... I decided to b...

Posted: 2005-09-15T10:22:30Z

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It's been a late, late night. So... I decided to be productive and finally update my Weekly Showcase. I've also made a few other minor cosmetic changes... Enjoy. C-ya.

2005-10-19T05:50:00.000-07:00

Books #44 and #45: Ken MacLeod, Dark Light and Engine City

Posted: 2005-08-19T18:14:23-07:00

Source: "Dark Light (The Engines of Light, Book 2)" and "Engine City (The Engines of Light, Book 3)" complete MacLeod's "Engines of Light" trilogy. I finished the latter today, and found the entire trilogy to be a fast and enjoyable...

2005-10-19T05:09:00.000-07:00

Fun with Fixtures

Posted: 2005-09-25T05:06:02Z

Source: My favorite part of Agile Web Development with Rails is the section on testing. I've found the framework around testing included with Rails to be a wonderful blend of simplicity and power and this chapter in the book is the perfect compliment.

2005-10-18T23:07:00.000-07:00

Northeast Sees Worst of Heavy Rain End

Posted: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Source: WORCESTER, Mass., Oct. 15 -- Severe flooding swept away cars, uprooted trees and forced evacuations as the Northeast endured another day of driving rain Saturday. But in some places, the sun was shining for the first time in a week.

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2005-10-17T22:55:00.000-07:00

Lesscode Is Not About Quantity

Posted: 2005-09-28T19:29:44Z

Source: A number of people that are making the painful transition to lesscode seem to misunderstand the underlying philosophy of the movement. For some reason, some of them get hung up on the quantity (read: number of lines of code). But, by doing that, I’m afraid they are completely missing the boat. Let me state it in [...]

2005-10-17T16:31:00.000-07:00

65 Are Jailed In Violence At Neo-Nazi Rally in Ohio

Posted: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Source: TOLEDO, Oct. 15 -- A crowd protesting a white supremacists' march Saturday turned violent, throwing baseball-sized rocks at police, vandalizing vehicles and stores, and setting fire to a neighborhood bar, authorities said.

2005-10-17T10:24:00.000-07:00

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2005-10-16T22:33:00.000-07:00

Keep the number of passes in a compiler to a minimum.
-- D. Gries

2005-10-16T16:23:00.000-07:00

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Oh man!!!! So much iPod and iTunes news to talk about!!! Today is a very exciting day for us geeks!!! More details soon...C-ya.

2005-10-16T10:17:00.000-07:00

Book #43: Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep

Posted: 2005-08-16T14:12:32-07:00

Source: Finally taking a bit of a break from Michael Sandel and excursions into Philip Pettit, and began reading MacLeod's "Engines of Light" trilogy over the weekend. "Cosmonaut Keep (The Engines of Light, Book 1)" turned out to be an...

2005-10-16T09:53:00.000-07:00

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2005-10-16T04:09:00.000-07:00

NATION IN BRIEF

Posted: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Source: TEXARKANA, Ark. -- A tanker car transporting the flammable gas propylene derailed in a switchyard and exploded in a ball of fire Saturday, killing one person and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of houses.

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2005-10-11T10:21:00.000-07:00

Government Can't Explain Increase in 2002 TSA Contract

Posted: Sun Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the government changed a contract to hire federal airline passengers screeners in a way that cost taxpayers an additional $343 million. More than three years later, officials cannot explain exactly why.

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2005-09-26T02:43:00.000-07:00

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Oh man!!!! So much iPod and iTunes news to talk about!!! Today is a very exciting day for us geeks!!! More details soon...C-ya.

2005-09-26T02:41:00.000-07:00

Book #43: Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep

Posted: 2005-08-16T14:12:32-07:00

2005-09-26T00:08:00.000-07:00

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Posted: 2005-09-17T17:15:39Z

Source: A significant problem in the trenches for Web Services isn't the ability to play nice or not with existing Internet protocols, or its complicated type system, or Object/XML impedence. It's optionality. When you get down to it, too much in Web Services is optional. Calling the specs composable and thus dressing that up as feature is pointless - optionality is a curse. Yes, WS specs are designed to be composable, but this underplays the fragmentation costs of not having an interoperable core.

2005-09-26T00:07:00.000-07:00

Red Sox Stay on Track for AL East Showdown

Posted: Sun Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: Edgar Renteria drives in two runs in the ninth inning, and the Boston Red Sox regain a share of first place in the AL East by defeating Baltimore, 4-3, Saturday.

2005-09-26T00:06:00.000-07:00

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2005-09-25T21:33:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of new posts. I've been super b...

Posted: 2005-09-06T21:36:26Z

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Sorry for the lack of new posts. I've been super busy. I'll update everything soon.

R.I.P. Bob Denver... we'll miss you "little buddy"

2005-09-25T21:32:00.000-07:00

An updated personal history of computing

Posted: 2005-07-31T11:55:32-07:00

Source: Back in 2003 on my "previous" blog, I updated a long-standing essay I'd called "A Personal History of Personal Computing." That blog is long gone in the transition away from Radio Userland to Typepad, but I think it's time...

2005-09-25T21:31:00.000-07:00

“Reinventing Smalltalk, one decade at a Time”

Posted: 2005-09-09T11:51:02Z

Source: Sam posts the slides from his "The Case For Dynamic Languages" keynote at FOSSSL.

2005-09-25T19:02:00.000-07:00

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Were Like Night and Day

Posted: Sun Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: Reinforced armies of federal search teams, medics and National Guard troops began fanning out into wind-whipped and waterlogged southwestern Louisiana and coastal Texas yesterday, racing to prove the government had learned from its disastrous missteps earlier this month on the Gulf Coast.

2005-09-25T19:01:00.000-07:00

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2005-09-25T18:59:00.000-07:00

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
-Samuel Goldwyn

2005-09-25T16:24:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the lack of updates, I updated the weekl...

Posted: 2005-08-24T00:27:10Z

Source:

Sorry for the lack of updates, I updated the weekly showcase. On another note, I highly recommend the reality show "Tommy Lee Goes To College" this show is hillarious!!!! Tommy is the shit!!!

One more thing, read this article about Colin Powell. It's truly sad, and what's even more sad is that people actually voted for President Bush. Only if those voters would have known then what they know now; maybe things would have turned out differently...C-ya.

2005-09-25T16:23:00.000-07:00

Book #42: Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy

Posted: 2005-07-30T08:23:31-07:00

Source: Fforde's newly released book, "The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime", inhabits a world different than the Thursday Next novels, but carry over the author's ability to draw a comic "alternate England" to great effect. The new series follows...

2005-09-25T16:22:00.000-07:00

Officials Hope for an Orderly Return

Posted: Sun Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: HOUSTON, Sept. 24 -- Hoping to avoid the evacuation debacle that stranded hundreds of thousands of motorists in a super-size traffic snarl of overheated tempers and out-of-gas vehicles, local and state officials implored residents Saturday not to rush home in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita, which...

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2005-09-25T13:39:00.000-07:00

Reactor error - core dumped!

2005-09-25T13:38:00.000-07:00

The weekly showcase has been updated. In honor of ...

Posted: 2005-08-08T19:11:37Z

Source:

The weekly showcase has been updated. In honor of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" being the #2 most downloaded song on the rock genre in iTunes; I've made their greatest hits album the featured album. I 've also added that same song as the background music. Enjoy... C-ya.

R.I.P. - Peter Jennings

2005-09-25T12:41:00.000-07:00

Book #41: Michael Craig, The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King

Posted: 2005-07-30T08:23:08-07:00

Source: Michael Craig's book chronicles a series of high-stakes poker games played between Andy Beal, a Texas banker, and top poker pros between 2001 and 2004 in Las Vegas. Beal is far more than an amateur poker player, spending vast...

2005-09-25T12:33:00.000-07:00

Code Is Not An Asset

Posted: 2005-09-01T18:32:21Z

Source: Stumbled upon this at InfoWorld (it’s the Alan Cooper interview) : One of my assertions is that code is not an asset. A lot of companies say their job is to maximize the revenue from our code base. That reflects a kind of an Old World, industrial-age thinking. What’s interesting is the open-source movement is kind [...]

2005-09-25T12:25:00.000-07:00

Sosa Won't Play Again This Season

Posted: Sun Sep 25 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: The Orioles and Sammy Sosa have decided it is best that the outfielder not play again this season, perhaps ending his tenure in Baltimore.

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Posted: 2005-08-30T16:28:31Z

Source: What's interesting is that, as far as I can tell, they've placed NO limitations on what type of snippets can be posted.

2005-09-23T15:12:00.000-07:00

Coming Home to A Different Struggle

Posted: Sun Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: NEW ORLEANS -- Eighteen months in Iraq taught Jemal Foster that optimism is a little like fool's gold. There were too many dead, too many wounded and too much daily stress to hope that the next day, even the next hour, would be a good one.

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2005-09-20T09:35:00.000-07:00

In Baseball Now, More Teams Pray Before They Play

Posted: Sun Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: Three hours before the game, in the Washington Nationals' clubhouse, Ryan Church and Matt Cepicky were razzing each other, laughing and dancing around in their shorts.

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2005-09-20T09:01:00.000-07:00

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2005-09-20T07:09:00.000-07:00

Books #44 and #45: Ken MacLeod, Dark Light and Engine City

Posted: 2005-08-19T18:14:23-07:00

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Code Is Not An Asset

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2005-09-20T07:07:00.000-07:00

2 Dead, 80 Hurt When Chicago Train Derails

Posted: Sun Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: CHICAGO, Sept. 17 -- A commuter train derailed Saturday on Chicago's South Side, killing two women and injuring more than 80 other people, officials said.

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BOFH Excuse #94:

Internet outage

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Book #43: Ken MacLeod, Cosmonaut Keep

Posted: 2005-08-16T14:12:32-07:00

2005-09-20T03:17:00.000-07:00

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Posted: 2005-08-30T20:56:09Z

Source: “I laugh the laugh of a third world designer.” A gem from James Governor.

2005-09-20T03:16:00.000-07:00

Devastated Residents See No Future

Posted: Sun Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: CHALMETTE, La., Sept. 17 -- This small suburb wasn't exactly wiped off the map by Hurricane Katrina. But for many of the people who were allowed to visit their homes Saturday for the first time, it might as well have been.

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An updated personal history of computing

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Posted: 2005-08-30T16:28:31Z

Source: What's interesting is that, as far as I can tell, they've placed NO limitations on what type of snippets can be posted.

2005-09-20T01:21:00.000-07:00

Rotting Wood, Rampant Mold Threaten Homes

Posted: Sun Sep 18 00:00:00 EDT 2005

Source: New Orleans residents who return to their soggy homes and businesses this week are in for some rude lessons in physics and biology, experts say.

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2005-09-19T23:12:00.000-07:00

Book #42: Jasper Fforde, The Big Over Easy