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The character '�' is just an evil bastard of a character. It is. Yes it is. It messes with my nice program. _
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02:22:00 PM, Wednesday 31 December 2004

I’ve fixed the problem that was keeping comments from working on some of the older galleries. It turned out to be something much simpler than I thought it would be.

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04:49:38 PM, Tuesday 30 December 2004

Summary of conclusions: my intellectual judgment reacts to Ayn Rand's works in much the same way my aesthetic judgment reacts to Walt Disney's. I'd guess there are about the same shares of justice and injustice in each of those judgments. _
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07:03:17 PM, Monday 29 December 2004

Wanted: a Python script for determining the meter of a line of verse. At the very least, one for doing a syllable count. Ideally, one capable of checking whether two words rhyme. I imagine this would have to be done with some sort of dictionary. _
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03:00:27 PM, Monday 29 December 2004

I’m back at work after two weeks off. Things are less hectic now, so I imagine I’ll start blogging again (and reading other blogs—something I’ve done almost none of for the past two weeks). Christmas was lovely.

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02:50:32 PM, Monday 29 December 2004

Say what you will about Ayn Rand, she at least deserves credit for demonstrating that there can be such a thing as Trashy Genre Philosophy.

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02:47:50 PM, Wednesday 24 December 2003

Ambrose Bierce: cabbage, n., a familiar garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.

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02:47:02 PM, Wednesday 24 December 2003

America’s Poll on Homosexual Marriage
Please select one of the three poll choices, complete the form (all fields required), and click the submit button. Results of this poll will be presented to Congress.

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10:52:00 PM, Tuesday 23 December 2003

Two years ago today, Kerne finished BLT.

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08:56:03 PM, Tuesday 16 December 2003

We have a Mirabai!

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04:09:50 PM, Tuesday 16 December 2003

Pyrex is a Python-like language that compiles down to C. It's like a lower-level version of Python, for writing faster extension modules. A fascinating idea. I want to try it out. This could make it almost trivially easy to apply the Alternate Hard And Soft Layers design pattern. _
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08:37:35 PM, Friday 12 December 2003

Why democracy has to be tempered by limitations on the powers of the government. _
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07:30:48 PM, Friday 12 December 2003

...as opposed to this. _
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04:03:39 PM, Friday 12 December 2003

Invisiblog allows truly anonymous weblog publishing using digital signatures and anonymous remailers--even they don't know who you are. (Of course, it's still up to you not to reveal any personal details within the blog.) _
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03:58:33 PM, Friday 12 December 2003

In The Guardian, Richard Williams asks if Britain has the world's worst national anthem. No, Mr. Williams, it does not. _
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03:16:05 PM, Friday 12 December 2003

I'm not crazy about Howard Dean, but this is one thing he says that I definitely like. _
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02:48:19 PM, Friday 12 December 2003

Opinion polls on the war in Iraq.
From PollingReport.com, which also seems to collect a hell of a lot of other polls. _
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02:12:25 PM, Thursday 11 December 2003

Lego Trogdor. Need I say more?

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02:57:27 AM, Thursday 11 December 2003

There's more Get Your War On up. Because as long as the world keeps being ugly and depressing, you might as well have something to laugh about.

And yes "a heavy dose of fear and violence" is a real quote. _
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07:39:24 PM, Wednesday 10 December 2003

Matt Haughey and Jason Kottke have been talking recently about "Customized Classics", a website that offers various classic works of literature with your name substituted in for that of the lead character.

Now, I tend to agree that copyright law today is too restrictive, but if this sort of thing is really a typical example of the "value [the public domain] can give us as a culture," I just can't imagine getting worked up over it all. Matt's a smart guy who clearly cares about this stuff. If an overpriced novelty item really demonstrates the value of less restrictive copyrights better than anything else he can think of, then there must be something more important to fight for. _
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07:17:35 PM, Wednesday 10 December 2003

Okay, I think I fixed that bug.

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04:28:13 PM, Wednesday 10 December 2003

Okay, weird bug. Grar.

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04:07:36 PM, Wednesday 10 December 2003

Okay, weird bug. Grar.

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04:04:37 PM, Wednesday 10 December 2003

Vivisimo is a search engine that automatically groups your search results into different categories, to make it easier to find just what you’re looking for. It’s pretty slick.

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03:32:26 PM, Wednesday 10 December 2003

John Kerry: "When I voted for the war, I voted for what I thought was best for the country. ... Did I expect George Bush to fuck it up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did." _
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04:46:43 PM, Tuesday 9 December 2003

Warren Ellis is savaging the Democratic presidential candidates. It's rather satisfying to watch, if you can avoid getting too depressed about it. _
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03:42:23 PM, Tuesday 9 December 2003

NOBODY CAN SAVE YOU.
WE WILL ALL BE EATEN.
(funniest if you're already familiar with the deeply disturbing and wrong works of Jack Chick. And H.P. Lovecraft, of course.) _
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01:48:44 PM, Tuesday 9 December 2003

So, version 2.0 of My Card Maker is up. The big new features are user accounts (i.e., you can log in and see all the cards you've made in the past, load them up, and edit them) and event reminders. There are also all sorts of changes to the internals of the thing that make it more reliable and more powerful, and easier for us to add features to. Building these tools is (approximately) what I do at work. _
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04:15:52 PM, Monday 8 December 2003

Quoth Mirabai:
http://insected.arizona.edu/lesson_01/smcricket.htm
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08:59:55 PM, Saturday 6 December 2003

If your notion of Freedom depended merely on being unpredicatable, you were lost long before physics came into the picture. _
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01:04:27 PM, Saturday 6 December 2003

Forum, a show on the local NPR station, was totally about Punk Rock this morning. _
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04:07:38 AM, Saturday 6 December 2003

There are among the Democrats those who, while they aren’t too fond of Bush, reserve the full force of their hatred for another candidate in the 2000 presidential election: Ralph Nader. Mr. Nader’s crime, of course, was to deprive Al Gore of the votes of a handful of people who fundamentally disagreed with him. These stridently anti-Nader Democrats become so inflamed at the very mention of their enemy’s name that they are left shaking with rage and hurling out incoherent expletives to whoever will listen. They are offputting, embarrassing, and often a little scary, and when I have doubts about voting for a Democrat in 2004, it is generally these people that cause them.

Anyhow, a wonderful post at Keywords has taken the time to explain just why people voted for Nader, and why it doesn’t make sense to blame him for Gore’s loss. I don’t know if it will do any good, but it’s still refreshing to see it stated in detail.
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04:30:17 PM, Friday 5 December 2003

cgi_buffer is a group of libraries for Perl, Python, and PHP that makes it trivially simple to do various bandwidth saving things on your dynamically generated web pages. _
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05:28:34 PM, Thursday 4 December 2003

Speaking of primary sources, if you're interested in the specifics of the Geneva Accord, Tim Bray has put a copy of it on his website [explanation]. If you read it and notice anything interesting, please mention it here--I'm still not sure if I'll have time to read it. _
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05:01:04 PM, Thursday 4 December 2003

Paul Ford has designed a new website for Harper's magazine. It is a truly fine piece of work. _
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02:22:30 PM, Thursday 4 December 2003

Mostly I like the streamlined interface to the blogbot, but it does make testing harder. _
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07:58:28 PM, Tuesday 2 December 2003

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