Archive for September, 2003
Tuesday, September 30th, 2003 | 07:49
My friend Itai’s sailing the South Pacific right now on a three month sabbatical. He’s been sending occassional updates by email: in the little villages of Fiji, the tentacles … Continue reading »
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Monday, September 29th, 2003 | 16:44
I was called to Jury Duty last week on Wednesday. Since the late 1990s, New York City draws it’s jury pool from every list of residents it can get … Continue reading »
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Friday, September 19th, 2003 | 14:04
Finally, I have (simultaneously) the need and the opportunity to find a perl script to decode the base64 MIME attachments in a set of email. The script is used for GNATS … Continue reading »
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003 | 08:36
Putting on and folding the hakama isn’t that suited to blog entries. It’s a matter of repetitive tasks that don’t conform well to written notes. However, I’ve brought … Continue reading »
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003 | 07:44
I recently discovered that my building swipe card works for opening the back entrance to the lobby. So, I have a choice when I get out of the subway … Continue reading »
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003 | 07:13
The dojo had a total of four brown belt tests on Friday and Monday. A little bit of a scheduling pile-up, but everything went well. The testees were … Continue reading »
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Saturday, September 13th, 2003 | 11:31
I just put together an easy RSS portal package. Here’s the overview section of the README: This package provides a personal protal for RSS syndicated newsfeeds. The goal of … Continue reading »
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Friday, September 12th, 2003 | 07:40
I saw this yesterday on the blog of a New Yorker now living in London: We all remember the moment when Bush, in an almost disapointingly routine fashion, began speaking to … Continue reading »
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Thursday, September 11th, 2003 | 08:46
I remember seeing this image in 2001 (September? October?) on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, and being struck by how eloquent it was. It still … Continue reading »
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Wednesday, September 10th, 2003 | 11:54
Entertainingly, one of my recent referrals was from a Google search on “slashdot freelance tech support”. Google points to this post I put up about a Slashdot article on … Continue reading »
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