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Legal day

Today was a legal sort of day. I had to report for jury duty and spend the afternoon in a courtroom for jury selection. Then this evening, I completed online traffic school for a speeding ticket that I got in September. Well, I...
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Finished The 4400 Season 2

A few of us have been getting together on occasion to watch the sci-fi show The 4400 (on DVDs from Netflix). It doesn't seem to be a hugely popular show, but it's actually quite good. It's the tale of what happens when 4400...
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links for 2007-11-16

Apple - Support - Discussions - X11 in Leopard ... Discussion thread on X11 in Leopard with links to updates and info on getting Gimp and Inkscape working (tags: mac osx x11 leopard gimp inkscape) Leopard and X11 - The...
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Bookcase

This is the "bookcase" that was issued to me (and many of my colleagues) at work. As you can see, it's not very practical, especially with the height of the shelves, which makes it impossible to fully utilize the space without...
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links for 2007-11-13

The Flash Blog » Running Flash in the Vista Sidebar! Since Vista gadgets are essentially just HTML and JavaScript there is no reason that you can’t include other browser technologies such as Flash and Flex. (tags: vista...
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Ready Lisp for OS X Leopard | Lisp, Mac OS X, Emacs | New Artisans LLC Ready Lisp packages an ANSI Common Lisp environment for Mac OS X users as a single application bundle. It repackages and configures the following components:...
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links for 2007-11-09

Pandion - An easy to use XMPP and Jabber client Pandion is a Windows IM client for XMPP & Jabber networks, designed for usability & standards compliance. It automatically encrypts your connection to XMPP servers. It makes...