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Sunday, October 27, 2002
The Moscow theatre seige, another suicide bomber in the West Bank, the sniper here in the US: I'm sick of all of it. I've made the mistake of following the news of late, and it's dragging me down. I'm speechless. I just wish it would all end. I wish people would find a way to solve their problems that doesn't involve killing.
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The Moscow theatre seige, another suicide bomber in the West Bank, the sniper here in the US: I'm sick of all of it. I've made the mistake of following the news of late, and it's dragging me down. I'm speechless. I just wish it would all end. I wish people would find a way to solve their problems that doesn't involve killing.
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Friday, October 25, 2002
If you run MySQL (and you should, you know), check out MyCC, it's a nice graphical front end. Even if you're like me and prefer to do most of your SQL work from the command line, MyCC still comes in handy for checking out the structure of databases. It's still in alpha, but it's really solid.
I always wondered why people get so hooked on doing family geneologies, but then I discoverd GeneologyJ (GenJ, for short). It's a great program in pure Java that lets you create geneologies and export them in a variety of formats, including GEDCOM, the emerging standard, and HTML. The current printing options leave a lot to be desired, but it's a good start and one I'm sure will get better.
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If you run MySQL (and you should, you know), check out MyCC, it's a nice graphical front end. Even if you're like me and prefer to do most of your SQL work from the command line, MyCC still comes in handy for checking out the structure of databases. It's still in alpha, but it's really solid.
I always wondered why people get so hooked on doing family geneologies, but then I discoverd GeneologyJ (GenJ, for short). It's a great program in pure Java that lets you create geneologies and export them in a variety of formats, including GEDCOM, the emerging standard, and HTML. The current printing options leave a lot to be desired, but it's a good start and one I'm sure will get better.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2002
Postmodernists on Jerry Springer had me laughing out loud. And for the bass players in the crowd, playthebass.com has some great desktop pics and some nice staff paper and neck diagram PDFs worth printing out.
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Postmodernists on Jerry Springer had me laughing out loud. And for the bass players in the crowd, playthebass.com has some great desktop pics and some nice staff paper and neck diagram PDFs worth printing out.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2002
Yesterday, former president Bill Clinton gave a speech here in Fayetteville as part of a statue dedication ceremony in honor of former senator J. William Fulbright. It was quite a moving speech, actually, even for those of us who have grown fairly cynical about politics in general. I haven't found a full text to link to yet, but the broad strokes covered the role of the United Nations and moving ethically beyond religious, racial, and other sorts of antagonisms based on exclusive ideas of what it means to be human (he actually touched on Rorty's ideas a bit, though he didn't mention him). It was a refreshingly thoughtful (even philosophical) antidote to the current, election-year barage of partisan knee jerking.
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Yesterday, former president Bill Clinton gave a speech here in Fayetteville as part of a statue dedication ceremony in honor of former senator J. William Fulbright. It was quite a moving speech, actually, even for those of us who have grown fairly cynical about politics in general. I haven't found a full text to link to yet, but the broad strokes covered the role of the United Nations and moving ethically beyond religious, racial, and other sorts of antagonisms based on exclusive ideas of what it means to be human (he actually touched on Rorty's ideas a bit, though he didn't mention him). It was a refreshingly thoughtful (even philosophical) antidote to the current, election-year barage of partisan knee jerking.
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Sunday, October 20, 2002
Looks like Coudal is back (warning: longest pageload ever), after being offline for quite a while. Saw The Devil's Backbone last night--a really scarry very beautifully shot Spanish ghost/horror film. I never have very high expectations of horror flicks in terms of cinematography, but this one takes no prisoners.
Steve links a great story about Bruce Dickinson (of Iron Maiden fame) and his co-career as a commercial airline pilot.
Sorry to my dedicated readers (both of you) for the lack of posts of late. No excuse, really.
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Looks like Coudal is back (warning: longest pageload ever), after being offline for quite a while. Saw The Devil's Backbone last night--a really scarry very beautifully shot Spanish ghost/horror film. I never have very high expectations of horror flicks in terms of cinematography, but this one takes no prisoners.
Steve links a great story about Bruce Dickinson (of Iron Maiden fame) and his co-career as a commercial airline pilot.
Sorry to my dedicated readers (both of you) for the lack of posts of late. No excuse, really.
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Saturday, October 12, 2002
Learning Java? Try these great tutorials at IBM DeveloperWorks. Also check out the Java Glossary.
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Learning Java? Try these great tutorials at IBM DeveloperWorks. Also check out the Java Glossary.
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Friday, October 11, 2002
Not a one-termer
Congratulations to former US President Jimmy Carter on winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Some people are given an opportunity to do large-scale good in the world. And it's refreshing when they do.
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Not a one-termer
Congratulations to former US President Jimmy Carter on winning this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Some people are given an opportunity to do large-scale good in the world. And it's refreshing when they do.
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Tuesday, October 08, 2002
Running OS X (10.1)? Sick of that tcsh shell? install bash like a real Linux geek and never look back (if you're running 10.2, it's already there). The instructions tell you how to set up bash as your default shell, but if you just install it in the root directory ("/"), you can always invoke it by typing "bash". Then typing "exit" will drop you back to your tcsh shell.
Saw Birthday Girl (good little dark romantic comedy), Panic Room (not a a bad thriller), and some other thriller not worth mentioning (except for the really well done car ride/interrigation sequence).
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Running OS X (10.1)? Sick of that tcsh shell? install bash like a real Linux geek and never look back (if you're running 10.2, it's already there). The instructions tell you how to set up bash as your default shell, but if you just install it in the root directory ("/"), you can always invoke it by typing "bash". Then typing "exit" will drop you back to your tcsh shell.
Saw Birthday Girl (good little dark romantic comedy), Panic Room (not a a bad thriller), and some other thriller not worth mentioning (except for the really well done car ride/interrigation sequence).
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Saturday, October 05, 2002
The Phrase Finder is a nice site for finding the meanings and origins of common phrases.
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The Phrase Finder is a nice site for finding the meanings and origins of common phrases.
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Friday, October 04, 2002
File under "20 GOTO 10"
The Online Software Museum lets you learn about and even log in and play with a nice set of really old operating systems: CP/M, RDOS, Altair BASIC, and Unix 7th Edition. The author has even included little mini-faqs to get your feet wet in the operating systems of yesteryear (ah, takes me back to my early days of hacking on a TRS-80).
Tonight is Bikes, Blues, & Barbecue in Fayetteville. I'm going to take my dog, Josie, and check out some fat boys.
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File under "20 GOTO 10"
The Online Software Museum lets you learn about and even log in and play with a nice set of really old operating systems: CP/M, RDOS, Altair BASIC, and Unix 7th Edition. The author has even included little mini-faqs to get your feet wet in the operating systems of yesteryear (ah, takes me back to my early days of hacking on a TRS-80).
Tonight is Bikes, Blues, & Barbecue in Fayetteville. I'm going to take my dog, Josie, and check out some fat boys.
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Wednesday, October 02, 2002
Death of the Single-Button Mouse
I've been using OS X a lot for one of my projects. And I like it quite a bit. But here's a funny thing about OS X and about Apple in general: OS X has native support for two-button, scroll-wheel, mice. But Macs still ship with a single-button mouse. What's even more suprising is that you don't need some sort of special "Mac only" mouse to make things happen. I plugged a Gateway branded, Logitech optical (USB, of course) mouse into an iBook running OS X (version 10.1) and it worked fine in Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Internet Explorer 5.1.
Back when I used Macs and little else, I found two-button "PC" mice annoying. But I've become spoiled by them. And the Mac equivilent (option-clicking or clicking-and-holding) is fairly clucky in comparison. So, why the holdout? Why not admit that single-button mice have had their day in the sun and start shipping Macs with better mice (Most Mac users I know already use a custom mouse of some sort. But why should they have to pay even more cash when they're already shelling out a premium for Mac hardware?).
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Death of the Single-Button Mouse
I've been using OS X a lot for one of my projects. And I like it quite a bit. But here's a funny thing about OS X and about Apple in general: OS X has native support for two-button, scroll-wheel, mice. But Macs still ship with a single-button mouse. What's even more suprising is that you don't need some sort of special "Mac only" mouse to make things happen. I plugged a Gateway branded, Logitech optical (USB, of course) mouse into an iBook running OS X (version 10.1) and it worked fine in Adobe Premiere 6.5 and Internet Explorer 5.1.
Back when I used Macs and little else, I found two-button "PC" mice annoying. But I've become spoiled by them. And the Mac equivilent (option-clicking or clicking-and-holding) is fairly clucky in comparison. So, why the holdout? Why not admit that single-button mice have had their day in the sun and start shipping Macs with better mice (Most Mac users I know already use a custom mouse of some sort. But why should they have to pay even more cash when they're already shelling out a premium for Mac hardware?).
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