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AP: Iraqi scientists never revived their long-dead nuclear bomb program, and in fact lied to Saddam Hussein about how much progress they were making before U.S.-led attacks shut down the operation for good in 1991, Iraqi physicists say. _
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06:37:50 PM, Monday 1 December 2003

I’ve made a bit of a bug tracking system. In particular, those of you who live here on m14m.net can use it to report bugs in bloglet.

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11:22:17 PM, Sunday 30 November 2003

Nate asks what aggregator I use (in the comments on the congress RSS post.

Until recently, I’d been using NetNewsWire, which is probably the best aggregator available for the Mac. It’s not browser-based, so it’s rather better customized for reading news than a browser-based aggregator would be. It also integrates nicely with blogging tools: there’s an interface for posting to your blog from it, so if you read something interesting you can post about it right away.

The one problem with NetNewsWire is that I don’t always read news from the same computer, and of course, if I switch computers, the aggregator on one computer won’t remember what I’ve read on any others. Because of this, I’ve lately switched to a server-based aggregator, Feed on Feeds, which I have running on hobbes. It’s pretty basic, and I definitely want to clean up the look of it some, but it does everything I need it to, and overall I’m quite happy with it. It’s an easy install as long as you’ve got PHP and MySQL available. (If you like, I could even set up a copy of it for you on hobbes. I’ve already got one extra copy of it running my news-only feed.

I’ve also played a little bit with Radio Userland, a combination weblogging tool and aggregator (and one of the first applications to have come out in either category). I liked what I saw, but wasn’t interested enough at the time to pay $40 for it.

Beyond that, I don’t really know. I haven’t tried any Windows-based aggregators, since I don’t really have a Windows machine to run them on (though Radio is cross-platform, and Feed on Feeds, of course, doesn’t care what you view it from). Still, I hope this is useful.

Oh, also, if you decide to keep using AmphetaDesk, you should check out the outline skin that Les Orchard did for it. _
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04:12:13 PM, Wednesday 26 November 2003

If you’re running Movable Type, it is very strongly recommended that you disable the mt-send-entry.cgi script.

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02:54:16 PM, Wednesday 26 November 2003

Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow

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02:34:46 PM, Wednesday 26 November 2003

A bill that tries to limit spam has passed in the Senate and the House. As I understand it, they're now resolving differences between the House and Senate versions of the bill, and will have to pass the final version before it becomes law. (If you're feeling as rusty as I am in your knowledge of parliamentary procedures, this may help.) _
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01:56:53 PM, Wednesday 26 November 2003

Randomly found some free sheet music online. Haven’t had time to look at it. Don’t know if it’s any good. Thought I’d blog it for later.

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02:00:28 AM, Wednesday 26 November 2003

My ultimate goal is to be getting at least half my news from primary sources.

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09:45:09 PM, Tuesday 25 November 2003

But why wait? I've prepared RSS feeds of the Congressional Record for the House and Senate. They're not perfect, but they do seem to work well enough. If you don't have an RSS reader, of course, you can still just go directly to THOMAS.

Update: I've added one more Congressional Record feed, the Daily Digest, which is nice because it actually has descriptions of everything. I'm not scraping absolutely everything that's in the source, but I am getting most of it. _
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09:30:49 PM, Tuesday 25 November 2003

The Pentagon has RSS feeds up of items from their news page. While this isn't a source I'd describe as objective and unbiased, it is a lot more direct than most news you get. I wish there was something like this for THOMAS, so I could also keep track of what Congress is doing. _
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06:18:56 PM, Tuesday 25 November 2003

Language Hat recently posted some interesting remarks about linguistics and questions of good usage. I think you should read what he says, because I pretty much agree with it, but wouldn’t have been able to say it as well myself.

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05:34:39 PM, Tuesday 25 November 2003

"This is just... ten minutes of defamation. Seventy minutes in dog years!"

Triumph, The Insult Comic Dog, on Fresh Air.

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06:40:58 PM, Friday 21 November 2003

The last few weeks of the year are crammed with urgently marketed Hollywood studio films that seem to promise some ennobling influence upon their audience.

What could be less enticing? All these movies seem to have the same faux classical score, the same stars (Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins), and they all seem eerily familiar, as if you saw the same adverts last year.

Actually, you did.

"Seven Ways to Win an Oscar", in The Guardian. Also notable for including the best infographic ever. _
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02:06:29 PM, Friday 21 November 2003

Which of the Imagist poets are you?
I, it seems, am Ezra Pound. _
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03:36:19 PM, Wednesday 19 November 2003

Hmm... it might be worth adding some sort of delete post function, just for dealing with double posts. Why didn't I do it before?
...Oh, right, because with the way bloglet's written right now, it would be hard. Never mind. _
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03:36:06 PM, Wednesday 19 November 2003

A script to trash an iPhoto Album and its images. _
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08:08:21 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

The Observor: Home Secretary David Blunkett has refused to grant diplomatic immunity to armed American special agents and snipers travelling to Britain as part of President Bush's entourage this week.

In the case of the accidental shooting of a protester, the Americans in Bush's protection squad will face justice in a British court as would any other visitor, the Home Office has confirmed.

The issue of immunity is one of a series of extraordinary US demands turned down by Ministers and Downing Street during preparations for the Bush visit. _
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07:59:51 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

Mellel is an interesting looking word processor for OS X. It's shareware, so I'm checking it out. _
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07:46:03 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

Grab what you can from mp3.com, because they're dropping their music library on December 2. _
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05:07:48 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

I’ve fixed the problem in my RSS feed of local news from the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. If anyone from Sonoma is reading, and would like an RSS feed of local news, feel free to subscribe.

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03:42:50 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

If I've done this right, the "In my Aggregator" section of my blogroll should now have an exact list of the blogs I'm actually subscribed to in my copy of Feed on Feeds. (You can also read stuff there if you want to, but, for obvious reasons, I'm the only one that can change the configuration or mark posts as read.) _
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03:20:13 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

Localfeeds collects weblog posts based on location, so you can see what's being posted on blogs of people who live near you. It's nifty. _
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02:50:02 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

Those of you who are into digital photography may be interested in this article about using Photoshop to remove noise from digital photos. _
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01:59:55 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

My apologies for the blogbot being down yesterday evening and this morning. I've been having server problems. _
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01:58:43 PM, Monday 17 November 2003

Randomly searching, I came across the Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina. I haven’t gotten a chance to look through it much, but based on the descriptions, it looks like they have some fascinating stuff up there.

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10:38:10 PM, Friday 14 November 2003

I can’t even begin to know what to think about this Macauley Culkin movie.

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10:36:30 PM, Friday 14 November 2003

Interesting study on the effects of herbicide-tolerant GM crops, and their associated higher herbicide use, on farmland wildlife. I don't find the results particularly surprising, but I don't have enough background to really follow the details of the study. If anyone else out there can put it in context, I'd be very grateful.
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01:21:22 PM, Friday 14 November 2003

Simon Willison mentions a Python library to extract EXIF information from digital camera image files. This will be useful to me if I ever want to, say, add a photoblogging feature to Wobble. _
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08:18:32 PM, Thursday 13 November 2003

Workers at Borders Books store #1 are on strike. You can support them by boycotting Borders, Waldenbooks, and Amazon.com. _
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06:05:57 PM, Tuesday 11 November 2003

The rec.arts.books FAQ contains answers to a small but diverse and lovely group of questions about books. _
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02:12:05 PM, Tuesday 11 November 2003

Philip Greenspun: Going to public school in the 1970s in the U.S. we were taught to fear three things:� Communism, drugs, and Mexico.

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01:37:40 PM, Tuesday 11 November 2003

ProFont is a small font for programming. It's little, but still distinguishes between l and I and 1 and 0 and O and such. _
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05:28:22 PM, Monday 10 November 2003

SpyBot Search & Destroy deletes various nasty programs like Gator that install themselves on your computer. Same sort of thing as Ad-Aware, but it's supposed to be better. (I haven't tested it myself, 'cause I don't have a Windows box.)
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04:25:33 PM, Monday 10 November 2003

Easytoggle is a very slick bit of DHTML for switching the visibility of different sections within a single HTML page. (I know that description isn't at all clear--I can't think of a clearer way to say it. But it's a cool effect.) I should use it for the configuration pages for Wobble. _
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03:08:47 PM, Monday 10 November 2003

Run multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same Windows box. This seems very useful for testing. _
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02:47:22 PM, Monday 10 November 2003

Safari has been much more usable for me since I installed SafariNoTimeout, which turns off the idiotic misfeature of Safari that makes it give up on downloading a page if it takes more than 60 seconds. _
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02:33:33 PM, Monday 10 November 2003

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