Watch, Read, Listen
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I just read this intriguing piece in the Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=3&hp What’s great about this article is that I think the means that it describes and ends we would all find desirable: a government that votes it’s conscience. We differ greatly as to the means. I’ve been thinking recently that the problem is lack of accountability.…
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I’ve been an anti-flash guy for a pretty long time now but I’ve been “ok” with running flash on machines when I had flashblock installed. Today however I ceded to Adobe’s nag and installed the latest upgrade to Flash — bringing me to Flash Player 10.1 It ran mostly in the background, and I had…
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I wrote this in summer of 2008. My gang of friends had all come down to Woods Hole, and Mark Z. had brought a sweater he had found in his apartment. All the girls we knew were assembled, yet no one claimed the sweater. After the weekend, emails flew among the group trying to decide…
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I’ve had some issues with pushing strings in JSON to a browser and having the browser parse them correctly. Some browsers will take strings as argument, some want numbers — it’s a bit confusing. To avoid all confusion, I recommend making a new date and then setting the values, rather than using the ambiguous constructors,…
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Using vi as a hex editor – linux instead
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I’ve been playing around with Voldemort recently for a robust enormous datastore at Esped.com. One of the frustrating things I found in getting into it was the lack of complete existing code samples, so I thought I’d contribute one to the community. This is a bit more than simple put/get because I need versioning associated…
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I seem to always get this backwards, so I’m writing it down as a mnemonic. The correct ln syntax is ln <target> <linkname> e.g. ln /usr/bin/shutdown shutdown
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One year ago today, 8/18/2009, I was getting ready to go to lunch with Matt, Jorge and a consultant at work
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I watched the old John Wayne “Alamo” movie and wondered about the text of the letter Travis sent out. To the People of Texas and All Americans in the World: Fellow citizens and compatriots: I am besieged, by a thousand or more of the Mexicans under Santa Anna—I have sustained a continual Bombardment and cannonade…
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Taken directly from Brian’s page and added here so I don’t have to keep searching for this the one time a year that I need it, delete T1 from MyTable T1, MyTable T2 where T1.dupField = T2.dupField and T1.uniqueField > T2.uniqueField