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watching 24 Hour Party People...

Why don't I have any Joy Division? _
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07:18:16 PM, Sunday 9 February 2003

Dude! It very much looks like Bohannon has started blogging! Are you reading this, Dave? Should we be linking to you? _
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01:03:46 AM, Saturday 8 February 2003

I never thought I'd be glad to have fucking Jacques Chirac on my side. _
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12:54:26 AM, Saturday 8 February 2003

Has anyone reading this not read Arthur Clarke's Tales from the White Hart? If so, this oversight should be corrected immediately. _
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08:23:40 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

Aha! I think I may have found it! _
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08:00:05 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

Testing, yet again. _
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07:54:36 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

Ping for me, damn you! _
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07:40:48 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

No, really, ping! _
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07:34:50 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

And it looks like it may also ping weblogs.com, which would be kinda nice... lemme see... ping? _
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07:21:05 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

There... now I've got something of an RSS feed for this silly thing, thanks to the magic of Blogfeed. It's not great, but it's probably as good as I can expect to get with bloglet. _
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07:14:50 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

Hmm... this bodes ill, methinks. _
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07:08:21 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

Further testing. _
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06:56:16 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

This is another test. _
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06:53:13 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

This is a test. _
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06:39:07 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

Looking for something else, I stumbled across this wish list for a weblog tool. One item particularly caught my interest: "The system should have the notion of an administrator, which manages the permissions of users. The administrator should not be an user."

The possibility of an administrator being something other than just a user with more privileges had never occurred to me. If I made Wobble work like that, it would simplify a number of programming and user interface questions that I'd been thinking about. _
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06:29:22 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

The hamsters... the roquefort... is there a connection? _
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06:21:17 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

So yesterday afternoon I found myself off work early and in Marin, so I drove across the bridge to Berkeley to browse around bookstores. I was hoping to find the perfectly luscious edition of Jebb's Antigone text, translation, and commentary that they have in the SJC library, but had no luck. Almost got a nice Oxford text of Sappho and... Alcaeus? I have the feeling I'm misremembering the name of the other poet there. Ah well. At Black Oak Books. But then I opened it up and saw that it was $135, and ever so gingerly put it back on the shelf. But then later in the evening, I was at Cody's, and walking through the science fiction section I saw some things that led me to the following series of thoughts:
"Oh, neat, William Gibson's new book is out!"
"Oh, and he's going to be reading here on Thursday... I should go."
"Oh... and... uh... today is Thursday!"

And so, I stuck around for the reading. Got a seat in the second row. He's got a wonderful voice, sort of an amused ironic drawl, and, as I've been learning from reading his blog, he may actually be as interesting as his books make him appear. His new book is called Pattern Recognition, and takes place in the recent past--which is to say, probably about the same period as his other books. It seems to be following up on some of the themes that interested me most in the last three books; Cayce is sensitive in some of the same ways Laney was. Also, Cayce wears nondescript clothing with all the branding carefully removed, which makes me happy, because it's something I dream of doing.

Oh, but here is something that fills me with envy: Sumana (who works at Cody's) actually got to introduce him! And he even mentioned her on his blog! He's right, she was very funny. And she's right about what her best line was. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to say hi to her... she was busy introducing at first, and I didn't notice her around afterwards.

Also, earlier in the evening, I ran into Devin, an old friend (though I didn't really know him all that well) from the BBSing community around here, when there still was such a thing. Only talked to him for a few minutes, but still, it was nice to see him. It'd been years.

(And a moderately neat coincidence: this morning at work, Dave was showing me a program he'd made to feed fake e-mail addresses to spambots, which idea Devin implemented beautifully some time back in the form of Sugarplum.) _
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02:55:31 PM, Friday 7 February 2003

JsUnit is a unit testing framework for JavaScript, based on JUnit. This could be useful to me, as I'm about to build a Mozilla application at work. _
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06:02:08 PM, Tuesday 4 February 2003

"Every time some spam gets through my Eudora filters, I write a new one specifically for it," says Mitsu, and then he launches into one of the most delightful and amusing lines of speculation I've seen in ages. _
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04:20:40 PM, Tuesday 4 February 2003

Idea: a cgi script that would use Mark Pilgrim's ultra-liberal RSS parser to parse a given RSS feed, and then emit a new, simplified, more likely to be easily parseable one. _
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02:46:29 PM, Tuesday 4 February 2003

Question for all you St. John's types out there: when was the first time someone went and drew something on the board in one of your seminars? Or did this never happen to you? _
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11:56:05 PM, Monday 3 February 2003

LOAD "*",8,1 _
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04:22:59 PM, Monday 3 February 2003

Would it be right to say that Voodoo is something like the religious equivalent of a creole language? _
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02:37:39 PM, Monday 3 February 2003

Keith Devens's weblog regularly makes me furious, but I can forgive a great deal from a Buffy fan with a pet CMS programming project. (As for the furiosity, it's really not the political disagreement that bothers me, it's the contempt.)

(Lots of great programming stuff, though.) _
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02:09:46 PM, Monday 3 February 2003

13 cents. You can get it cheaper, but you have to have a car. _
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03:52:10 AM, Monday 3 February 2003

Julia has a bloglet now. I love her. I love her with all my heart. _
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03:39:47 AM, Monday 3 February 2003

Pot Noodle. (Fair warning: contains background music.)
[via MetaFilter] _
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12:27:58 AM, Sunday 2 February 2003

Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses,
Your simplified tenses aren't enough anyhow,
Oh you're a hard one, but I know that you've got your reasons,
The cases that were pleasin' you, accuse you now _
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11:55:36 PM, Saturday 1 February 2003

Oh, hey, so we finished two new programs at work the other day, Album Maker and Brochure Maker. They're not much, but they're kinda spiffy. I'm actually rather proud of album maker... it's the first one of these things we've made that I'd actually think about using myself. It's for making photo albums. _
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11:36:48 PM, Saturday 1 February 2003

Paging Kerne Fahey. Mr. Fahey, please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone. _
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09:10:25 PM, Saturday 1 February 2003

Fowler: "an was formerly usual before an unaccented syllable beginning with h (an historical work), but now that the h in such words is pronounced the distinction has become pedantic, & a historical should be said & written" _
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08:12:52 PM, Saturday 1 February 2003

I had no idea Carcinoma Angels was a reference to the title of a Norman Spinrad story. I'll have to read it. _
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08:02:32 PM, Saturday 1 February 2003

grammar : Bush :: sex : Clinton? _
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07:52:09 PM, Friday 31 January 2003

on finding the candy bowl empty

"Isn't there at least some kind of... chocolate equivalent of methadone that I can have?" _
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07:20:12 PM, Friday 31 January 2003

this afternoon, at work

I: What's a pirate chemist's favorite element?
Dave: Argon?
I: Yeah. _
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07:17:38 PM, Friday 31 January 2003

myorganmaker.com _
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08:29:36 PM, Thursday 30 January 2003

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