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Sunday, September 7th, 2008
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12:16 pm - I don't think you said what you meant to say here....
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From Jeff Atwood's blog:
* as an aside, you may notice that Anders Hejlsberg was the primary author of Turbo Pascal and later Delphi; he's now a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the chief designer of the C# language. That's a big reason why so many longtime geeks, such as myself, are so gung-ho about .NET.
That's not a recommendation, that's a warning....
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| Sunday, January 6th, 2008
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10:13 pm - Presented for argument:
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The examples provided by the St. Trinian's movie are better role models for pre-teen and teenage girls than those provided by the American media, and thus said movie should be required watching.
Discuss.
current mood:  thoughtful
current music: Theme to St. Trinians, Girls Aloud
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| Friday, January 4th, 2008
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8:17 pm - WT_F_?
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If anyone out there actually knows HTML and CSS (since I, apparently, _don't_), would you mind taking a look at [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a [...] )>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] If anyone out there actually knows HTML and CSS (since I, apparently, _don't_), would you mind taking a look at <a href="http://www.pele.cx/~dstar/show_draft_lorem_ipsum.html")>this page</a> and telling me what the _hell_ is going on? If I look at it with firebug, the div's with a class of 'commentposted' are actually _outside_ the bounding box of their parents. How is that possible? I'm obviously doing something wrong, but I don't know what. I assumed I'd screwed up my html, but according to the w3c validator, the page is valid xhtml.
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| Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
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1:30 pm - To hell with the 'war of the sexes'
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I was directed to this this morning, and I'm afraid it's caused me to rant.
Jesus Fucking Christ On A Goddamned Pogo Stick.
This man is a moron. Admittedly, it sounds like she's just as much of a moron, but _Lord_, is he a moron.
Hint: Anytime you start a sentence with 'Men want' or 'Women want' or "Men|Women can|can't" -- you're wrong. Period. The only thing you can say with reasonable certainty about all men or all women is what configuration of wibbly bits they have, and even that's not going to be accurate; look up the phrase 'intersex'.
I'm so over this whole fucking 'war of the sexes' bullshit it's not funny. There are no significant differences between men and women that are not socially instilled; there's not a damned thing men can do that women can't (including, with a shitload of money and medical expertise, create a baby), and only one thing women can do that men can't (parthogenesis is sex-specific, sorry).
'Women this' and 'Men that' -- bullshit. It's _all_ bullshit. Let me tell you how the _real_ world works:
Men are people.
So are women.
Women have it harder in some ways, because far too many men are assholes who think that a dick is a prerequisite for competence.
Men have it harder in some ways, because far too many women are bitches who think that all men are guilty of the crimes of the assholes.
Get over it. Most men aren't assholes. Most women aren't bitches. And even the ones who _are_ can and do learn.
Treat people the way you'd want to be treated, whether they have a cock or a cunt or both, and stop buying into this 'war of the sexes' bullshit -- because it doesn't help anyone.
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| Monday, March 19th, 2007
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9:07 pm - Emacs org-mode table calculations
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Anyone use org-mode? According to the docs, you can specify a cell in the table with @row$col.
According to emacs, it's never heard of such a thing, and if I insist on trying, it's going to keep saying #ERROR.
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| Friday, February 16th, 2007
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11:32 pm - How many naked japanese girls can you fit in a phone booth?
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The (NSFW, obviously) answer is here.
(Did I really need to mention that the link was NSFW?)
The Japanese have the best gameshows.
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| Saturday, January 13th, 2007
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11:02 am - Live weather feed?
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NOAA only updates the current temperature/humidity/wind/etc once an hour on their webpage. Weather.com seems to update slightly more frequently but not regularly.
I strongly suspect that NOAA _gets_ the data more frequently than once an hour. Does anyone know if it's possible to get access to that data?
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| Sunday, December 10th, 2006
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2:59 pm - Mysql type question
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Is there any way to create a read-only view with mysql? I ask, having accidentally blown away my phpbb users table....
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| Tuesday, November 21st, 2006
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7:53 pm - hey, rails-knowledgable-folk!
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Can any of you shed any light on this?
went to test my latest changes to my app, and suddenly I’m getting an error:
ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `read’ for [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<memcache:>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] Can any of you shed any light on this?
went to test my latest changes to my app, and suddenly I’m getting an error:
ActionView::TemplateError (undefined method `read’ for <memcache: 1 servers>:MemCa che) on line #2 of app/views/chapters/_parabody.rhtml: 1: <% @body = parabody.body %> 2: <% cache(:action => “show”, :action_suffix => “paragraph_#{parabody.id}”) do %> 3: <%= our_markdown(@body) %> 4: <% end %> #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb:300:in `read_fragment’ #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:30:in `benchmark’ #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb:299:in `read_fragment’ #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_controller/caching.rb:276:in `cache_erb_fragment’ #{RAILS_ROOT}/vendor/rails/actionpack/lib/action_view/helpers/cache_helper.rb:6:in `cache’ #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/views/chapters/_parabody.rhtml:2:in `_run_rhtml_chapters__parabody’
{......}
I haven’t touched that partial. Nor have I observed this in the past when testing. I went so far as to set up a duplicate lighttpd setup using the config I’m running in production on a different port, just in case, and I still get the error. If I connect via the console, I can look at the objects. Both are of class MemCache, both have get_server_for_key methods, but my production instance has a read method (Cache.respond_to? ‘read’ returns true), but my dev version does not. I’m testing my dev version in production mode, just to ensure that that’s not the problem, but no difference. The only changes to environment.rb are the following lines in my dev version:
ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] = ‘production’ ActionController::Base.perform_caching = true
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| Sunday, November 19th, 2006
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6:37 pm - I must do this...
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Mr... Milholland. It seems you lead... two lives. In one, you have a webcomic... update regularly... In the other... you are beaten to death by a horde of ravening fans. One of these lives... has a future, Mr. Milholland. The other... does not.
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| Monday, November 6th, 2006
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3:32 pm - Am I hallucinating...
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| Wednesday, October 18th, 2006
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7:08 pm - The Very Secret Diary of Hermione Granger
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| Sunday, October 1st, 2006
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8:25 am - Why did you do it?
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"My country, right or wrong -- if right, to keep it right; if wrong, to set it right."
Simple words, but words each and every one of us needs to take a good hard look at. Each and every one of us needs to look at who we support, and why, and search our hearts.
Are we doing it for the right reasons?
Some of you reading this voted for George Bush in 2004. Why? Take a good, hard look at yourself in the mirror, and ask ourself that question, and answer yourself honestly.
Because he was the Republican candidate?
Then your actions were unworthy of a responsible citizen of this country. You have a duty to vote for the candidate, not the party. The party a candidate belongs to tells you nothing that you need to know.
How does the candidate comport themself in their private life? Who contributed to their campaign? If they're an incumbent, what is their voting record?
These are the questions you need to answer, not 'Are they a donkey or an elephant?'
I will remind you, my friends, that both the donkey and the elephant are dumb animals -- and so are the parties they symbolize.
Did you vote for him because he was a fiscally responsible candidate?
Then you are a fool, my friend. All you needed to do was look at his record in office. Even accepting that tax cuts were needed to stimulate the economy -- something I can accept, at least provisionally -- I defy you to look me in the eye and tell me that it is fiscally responsible to raise expenditures while cutting income.
Or did you, like my mother, vote for him because it was a moral choice?
Then you need to wake up and smell the coffee, my friend! There are more moral choices a candidate will face than abortion and gay marriage.
There is the choice to lie to us -- a choice Bush has made more than once. He lied to us about the "Mission Accomplished" banner -- and that time he had the nerve to blame the people who are risking their lives on his orders!
He lied to us about the weapons of mass destruction. He lied to us about the connections between Al Qaeda and Iraq. He lied to us about the cost of the war.
His lies have gotten our men and women in the armed forces killed. Each and every one of these men and women were someone's son, someone's wife, someone's mother or father, and he killed them as surely as if he had put a gun to their heads and pulled the trigger, for he lead us into war under false pretenses.
These are not the actions of a moral man.
There is the choice to use his political position against those who disagree with him. Can you truly say that you do not think that the exposure of Valerie Plame was not retribution for her husband's actions?
Think, people!
If it were not, then when the question came up, he'd have done exactly what he finally did when his actions were uncovered -- point out that as President, he has the right to declassify any information he wishes to, and that therefore no crime had been committed.
But he did not do that, my friends. Instead, he mislead us once again -- proclaiming ignorance, and, in what has to be one of the most cynical moves I have ever seen, promising that if anyone in his administration had broken the law in this matter, they would be fired.
What we heard, and what he meant for us to hear, was that they would be fired if they were involved in the leak. He lied to us as surely as if he'd said, "No one in my administration was involved in these leaks."
These are not the actions of a moral man.
And now, for the first time in history, we have a president openly advocating torture.
Let me say that again, because it is truly such a momentous statement that you need to take a moment and think about it.
We have a president openly advocating torture.
We are supposed to be the good guys. We are supposed to be the ones with the moral high ground. It's the other guys who torture, who mistreat prisoners, who deny that the Geneva Convention applies.
And now, thanks to this 'moral' man, we have all the moral standing of a street-corner prostitute.
Less, in fact, because the typical street corner prostitute has no choice. She prostitutes herself, or her pimp will beat her or kill her.
We don't have that excuse.
We can't even claim an overwhelming danger, despite the rhetoric. The terrorist attack on the World Trade Center killed fewer than 2,800 people -- by comparison, 3,300 people were killed in automobile accidents in one month in 2000.
No, we ran bleating and crying from an imaginary bogeyman, and we threw away everything America was supposed to stand for.
You may be inclined to say that the 'alternative interrogation methods' aren't torture. Poppycock! I have gone for extended periods of time without sleep, and I will assure you, it is most definitely tortuous.
Torture is not the act of a moral man.
So tell me, please, how George Bush is a moral man, and how voting for him was a moral act.
For I say to you that he is not a moral man, and it was not a moral act, and if you believe it was, you are lying to yourself.
Look me in the eye and tell me I'm wrong.
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| Monday, June 19th, 2006
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10:57 pm - Questions....
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And very, very odd ones, I know.
1) Does anyone have any links to _good_ Harry Potter fanfic? Harry/Ginny/Hermione, especially...
2) Has anyone found a way to make fanfiction.net _useable_? As is, it's gotto be one if the worst sites I've ever seen....
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| Monday, May 1st, 2006
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2:22 pm - Quoted with permission
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cdybedahl wrote this in his lj this morning:
his is a rant
[info]deadspeaker wonders in a recent post what she's doing on the Internet, and seems to think that she's somehow failing at life by not just walking away from it. Because it's, you know, not real.
Fuck that.
The Internet is communication. That's all it is. A way of sending information from one place to lots of other places. And that is a huge and wonderful thing.
It's the information we take in that makes us who we are. Our personalities are shaped by and our actions determined by what we know, what we have felt and who we have talked to. The more we learn about the world around us, the greater our awareness of the huge amount of choice we have, and the more options are open to us. Knowing more, being aware of people in other places and situations, that makes us greater.
I was hooked on the Net from the first time back in 1990 when I had an entire conversation with someone on another continent in an afternoon. During the first USA-Iraq war in 1991 I first truly felt that the Net was something new and fantastic, when I sat in my safe little room in Linköping and followed over IRC the thoughts and feelings of a few students at Ben Gurion University in Jerusalem, and I truly worried when they had to leave their terminals because the air raid sirens went off. That wasn't just a notice on CNN about war in a far-off land, that was people I had been talking to in danger of their lives. The difference in emotional impact between those two is enormous, and the latter could never have existed without the Net. The same thing holds true to this day. It's much, much harder to be indifferent to news when it's happening to someone you know. I may never have physically met them, but so what? If we'd met, we'd pretty much only have talked anyway. We can do that just as well (sometimes better, for people with certain physical handicaps) this way.
How, if not for the Net, would I have been able to not notice that [info]trixieleitz moved halfway across the Earth without losing contact with her? How could I possibly have even a vague idea what it's like to be a young woman in Singapore? Or a feminist activist in Malaysia? A professional writer, in Edinburgh or Baltimore? Just plain ordinary people living in London or California or New Orleans or Sydney or Oslo or Tokyo or Edmonton or Antwerp or Madrid or Sao Paolo or New York ot Vienna or...
Claiming that this wealth of contact with different experience is inferior to limiting your experience to your own close social, economic and geographical environment is the voice of the utterly reactionary, the ones desperately afraid of new input and change. By disparaging the new, they seek to retain the old.
It's not like our contacts stay on the Net, either. If not for the Net, I'd never have ended up dating a woman in England. I'd never have sat in the back of a bookshop in San Antonio with a bunch of Texas wiccans comparing our vastly different experiences of belonging to a non-mainstream religion (and, boy, am I happy I don't live there!). I'd never have sat in a back yard in Nottingham talking about Blake's 7. I'd never have met my wife (we first met on alt.sysadmin.recovery).
When my grandparents grew up, pretty much their total environment was the villages where they were born, and those within a day or two of travel by human- or horse-powered conveyance (cars were for the rich back then). All the people they could share experience with lived in those areas.
When my parents grew up, cars were common. Air travel was getting practical. Television gave a one-way view of far-away places. They could share experience with a much larger part of this country, and even get a glimpse of other countries.
I can talk to people across most the of the planet. The number of people who I can potentially share experience with is about four orders of magnitude larger than those my grandfather could potentially share experience with when he was the age I am now – and all of that is because of the Net.
So people around you think you're strange because you spend time on the Internet. Well, they're right. To them, you are strange. You have stepped outside their world. You have experience an environment they now nothing of. And as with everything we experience, it has changed you. You are larger than you were. You are larger than they can be, as long as they don't also step outside.
You spend time on the Internet? Great. Welcome to all of the Earth.
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| Monday, November 28th, 2005
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10:37 am
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Too Stupid For My Dell
I'm too stupid for my Dell
Too stupid for my Dell
I'm going to he-ell
And I'm too stupid for my HP
Too stupid for my HP
You're going to hate me
I'm too stupid for my Gateway
Too stupid for my Gateway
No I won't go awa-ay
chorus:
I'm a moron, you know what I mean
And I do my little 'duh' on the pho-one
Yeah on the pho-one on the pho-one yeah
I do my little 'duh' on the pho-one
I'm too stupid for my game
too stupid for my game
It's really a shame
-chorus-
I'm too stupid for my Xbox
Too stupid for my Xbox
My head's full of ro-ocks.
-chorus-
I'm too stupid for my iPod
Too stupid for my iPod
I'm really a clo-od
-chorus-
And I'm too stupid for breathing
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10:22 am - Too Stupid For My Dell
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| Thursday, October 6th, 2005
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7:39 am - Good lord...
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There are some powers simply too dangerous to grant to government. Some of these our founding fathers thought of; thus we have the bill of rights.
Others, however, were simply beyond their ability to conceive -- for example, controlling the right to reproduce.
http://www.nuvo.net/archive/2005/10/05/unauthorized_reproduction.html
I'd say I'm horrified, but frankly that doesn't even come close. I don't _care_ where you stand on the issue of unwed parents; to grant the power to deny or allow reproduction to the government would be a disaster of epic proportions. No power ever given to a government has ever failed to be abused, and this lends itself to abuse more than others. Who would dare criticize the government, if doing so might mean you lost your chance to have a child?
The bill only applies to things like artificial insemination, fertility treatments, etc, but who can be absolutely certain they won't need help conceiving?
What happened to the country I grew up in, where we had this thing we called 'freedom'?
EDIT:
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/100605indiana.htm
She dropped the bill, which is good. The fact that she felt it was appropriate to introduce it in the first place is terrifying, however.
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| Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
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1:36 pm - non-forth moddable m*?
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Anyone know of a mush/moo/mud/m* (but preferably not a mud) which has a programming language which is _not_ stack based?
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| Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
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9:27 am - Plaque: New Orleans
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Bye, bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my airboat to the levee but the levee was gone
Them good ol' boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin' this'll be the day the city died
This'll be the day the city died....
I'd like to ask for a moment of silence for the death of a great
american city.
Oh, I know they're talking about rebuilding it, about draining it, but
New Orleans is dead. The best that can be done is to build a new city
where it stood. All the history -- or almost all, if some of hte
buildings on the higher ground survive -- will be gone.
A city is more than just buildings. It's more than just the
people. It's the complex interlocking webwork of economic
relationships, of businesses, jobs, and consumers. And all of those
have been destroyed.
When they finally let people back in, where will they go? Very few of
the buildings will be structurally sound after two months under water,
and worse...I've seen reports that the bottom of Lake Ponchatrain was
stirred up. If that's the case, then all of that lakewater pouring
into New Orleans will have contaminated everything, not to mention all
of the more mundane contamination.
Where will they work? Their jobs are gone; most of the local
businesses are just...gone.
I lived in New Orleans for six years, staying there longer than I
really should have. I loved that city.
And now it's gone.
So, please, let us take a few moments to honor the city that was. And
let us consider the incredible luck that spared so many of the city's
inhabitants.
I believe every great city has a soul; I _know_ New Orleans did. And I
fully believe that even as her death approached she did what she could
to save her inhabitants.
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