Archive for November, 2003

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Sunday, November 30th, 2003

We’ve arrived in SC and I’ll be spending all my spare time for the next few weeks putting my house together. But the hard part is over. I haven’t had any time for recreational surfing, so there’s nothing to blog about, but I’ll have more info later.

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Saturday, November 22nd, 2003

Going to Carolina in my Mind :: Actually, I’m going there in mind, body, and spirit. I’m moving to Charleston, South Carolina this week. I’ll be living in the lovely town of Mt. Pleasant. Posting will be hit and miss through the Thanksgiving holiday. If the man saw fit to give you a few days [...]

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Friday, November 21st, 2003

From an article at Slate: “The decision to make a marriage “sacred” does not belong to the state [ . . .]“

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Thursday, November 20th, 2003

Who was Lee Harvey Oswald? Fascinating portrayal of Oswald’s strange, pathetic life.

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Wednesday, November 19th, 2003

Yet another way to check up on what’s being talked about: BlogPulse.

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Monday, November 17th, 2003

I updated the cygwin install on my home machine, so I have tons of new linux command-line goodies to play with. I also noticed that the default X windows server is now rootless! So X apps pop up in their own windows w/o a container window. (The docs call this way of displaying “multiwindow”: “an [...]

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Wednesday, November 12th, 2003

This piece on the not so fine art of skimming is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. (Thanks to Garret at dangerousmeta, who links so many great things).

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Tuesday, November 11th, 2003

Tons of shockwave games for your next coffee break. It’s a German site (I think). There’s also an English version, but it doesn’t have that cool rollover trick that’s on the German one.

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Monday, November 10th, 2003

Not yet tested, but something to check out soon: DotPHP web components (something like Visual Studio for PHP?), snif (php-driven directory auto-indexing), and pitacard (XML-driven flash card program). Also, via sjarvis, an introduction to doing SOAP-based web services in PHP (using the Amazon.com API as an example).

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Sunday, November 9th, 2003

I don’t like Roger Ebert. I think I can safely say I’ve never liked him. Part of it is that he panned Stardust Memories, a film I always liked. But part of it isn’t his fault. When I was studying to be a literary critic (I prefer “literary historian” actually), I found out that, to [...]

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