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Now look, Pax!

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04:12:23 PM, Thursday 2 October 2003

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Since Martin’s server, and, along with it, his BLT program, is down, I have set up an m14m.net mirror of it. I would have done this yesterday, but I didn’t realize it would be so easy, and I thought I could write my own version relatively quickly. I am still planning to write my own script eventually, but I needed something working now, and it turns out it was just a matter of copying the script over and watching it run. So, until ninjavampire.com returns, I recommend http://www.m14m.net/bltadv/ for all your blog tracking needs.

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07:25:15 PM, Wednesday 1 October 2003

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Oh…

hey…

does this work?

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04:25:33 PM, Wednesday 1 October 2003

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The Sing-A-Long Sound Of Music was awesome, and a perfect way to spend an evening.

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02:19:09 AM, Saturday 27 September 2003

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On The Crux, Dempsey points out a report that Bush’s approval rating has dropped below 50%.

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08:38:20 PM, Friday 26 September 2003

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In SJC blogging news: Jesse Berney, one of the major contributors to the Democratic National Committee blog, is a Johnnie. If I’m remembering right, he graduated in 1997 (the year I started there), and was the Gadfly editor at some point.

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07:54:15 PM, Friday 26 September 2003

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I’m doing XML-RPC stuff in Flash at work right now, and it makes me realize: a Flash frontend to a blogging tool could make for a really powerful interface. You could have much more responsive views for browsing and editing archives and things, and for entering text. I would certainly never want it to be the only interface, but it would be a great thing to have available.

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05:05:59 PM, Friday 26 September 2003

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Dr Who is coming back!

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02:40:02 PM, Friday 26 September 2003

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Chris Gillen: Tolerance doesn’t mean saying only nice things about other people’s crackpot beliefs, it means not killing or jailing them.

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11:55:10 AM, Friday 26 September 2003

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Les Orchard has evidently been looking at Prolog programming. I played with Prolog a bit when I was… oh, little. Ten or twelve, I guess. Anyway, I don’t remember it very well, but from what I do remember, it’s pretty damned cool. It’s a logic programming language: basically, you give it statements in a sort of formal logic, and it evaluates their consequences. So it’s like a calculator for logic puzzles. Maybe I should look at it again.

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03:43:44 PM, Thursday 25 September 2003

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Well hell, I’ll do it.

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09:11:50 PM, Tuesday 23 September 2003

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David Weinberger: Democratic Candidates in Statistical Dead Heat

A good reminder that anyone attempting to interpret poll results should first understand statistics. Also, a bit of grammatical pedantry in the comments on that entry reminds me that I should link to the wonderful Singular ‘their’ in Jane Austen and elsewhere page. This page collects a great many convincing references for the argument that constructions like “everyone is entitled to their own opinion” have been an accepted part of the English language for hundreds of years.

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06:58:05 PM, Monday 22 September 2003

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It’s Books That Somebody Thought Might Not Belong In The Grade School Library week, and we hope you have a happy one.

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12:56:33 AM, Sunday 21 September 2003

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Where it’s at!
(Got two Victrolas and a megaphone.)

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05:54:04 PM, Saturday 20 September 2003

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Shelley Powers: A few lessons in how to Talk like a Pyrate for the Pyrate Impaired

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05:57:31 PM, Friday 19 September 2003

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The best photo and caption ever. The very best.

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01:41:50 PM, Friday 19 September 2003

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Challenge for the day: find me something more repulsive than Camille Paglia interviewing Matt Drudge.

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09:02:07 PM, Thursday 18 September 2003

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The new systems are built on the decayed, still-operating wreckage of the old.

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06:16:28 PM, Thursday 18 September 2003

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First, they came…

(Inspired by a recent post on Rogers Cadenhead’s blog, and my own perverse desire to learn just how badly mistreated a quote can be.)

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04:34:18 PM, Thursday 18 September 2003

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I don’t go in for philosophy so much anymore—as a matter of fact, I usually think it’s a very silly business of getting into a big fuss over nothing—but still, if someone could give me a convincing explanation of just what sort of ontological status rules of grammar have, I’d… well, I’d look on it as a favor.

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06:47:28 PM, Wednesday 17 September 2003

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Fuck yes. That rocked.

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03:06:31 AM, Wednesday 17 September 2003

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Non-Lethal Weapons

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05:00:34 PM, Tuesday 16 September 2003

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Of course, the balance of power being what it is, I suspect being the world’s fifth largest economy is something like having the fifth strongest military.

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02:06:16 AM, Tuesday 16 September 2003

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Julia and I have decided that it’s time to take our relationship to the next level: Reality TV.

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01:30:53 AM, Tuesday 16 September 2003

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Oh Macromedia, why must you toy with us like some fickle pagan god?

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06:09:35 PM, Monday 15 September 2003

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While reading The Nation last night (specifically this excellent forum on humanitarian intervention from a couple of months back), I reflected, not for the first time, on how remarkably Hobbesian the organization of the U.N. is for such a modern liberal institution.

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04:57:40 PM, Saturday 13 September 2003

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Join me, if you will, in pondering the massive differences in saying that someone is romantic, saying that they are a romantic, and saying that they are one of the romantics.

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08:26:41 PM, Thursday 11 September 2003

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A very happy birthday indeed to the lovely and talented Mr. Neil Swanson-Chrisman!

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01:59:52 AM, Thursday 11 September 2003

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Rather than confuse you with endorsements, position papers and other outmoded means of political influence, we’ve decided to get to the bottom of the only question that matters: Is a particular candidate human or an insidious replicant, possessed of physical strength and computational abilities far exceeding our own, but lacking empathy and possibly even bent on our destruction as a species? _
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09:18:32 PM, Wednesday 10 September 2003

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Today’s question: how had I lived in Healdsburg this long without knowing about the good Chinese place?

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11:36:43 PM, Sunday 7 September 2003

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The Crux is a weblog that started a couple of days ago. It’s mostly on political topics so far. Other blogmass people may be interested in it, because it’s largely written by a bunch of Johnnies, mostly from the class of 2000. If you knew them at St. John’s, you’ll probably have some idea of whether you’ll be interested in the blog. (I heard about it because my referrer logs very occasionally show links from their other, semi-private, blog, which, since it is semi-private, I’ve naturally been reluctant to link to.)

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05:48:21 PM, Wednesday 3 September 2003

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A while back, Rebecca Blood asked for recommendations for inexpensive, palatable red table wine. She has now posted the suggestions she received.

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02:14:29 PM, Wednesday 3 September 2003

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Holy shit! Virtual dedicated servers for fifteen bucks a month. That’s half what I pay for my current non-root account. It looks like it would include more disk space, and, of course, I’d be able to configure everything just so. This could be worth looking into.
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05:42:10 PM, Tuesday 2 September 2003

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FEELING ODDLY TELEGRAPHIC TODAY STOP

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03:49:37 PM, Tuesday 2 September 2003

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Safeway included avocados in our delivery at work today by mistake. So now I’ve got some avocados.

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03:21:18 PM, Tuesday 2 September 2003

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This morning, looking through IMDB to see when, if ever, a movie will be released that we might want to see

Julia: Moss?
I: Yes?
Julia: All movies suck. Hollywood has completely run out of ideas. I want to die.

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03:02:09 PM, Monday 1 September 2003

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