15 Nov 2007, 22:01 p.m.

What Slash Taught Me About "Stephen Colbert"

You might think that I began reading Stephen Colbert fan fiction because the writers' strike is keeping his show off the air.* But it was two weeks ago that I started seeking it out. I'd …

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14 Nov 2007, 11:42 a.m.

Software For You

As of this week, Miro 1.0 is out. Miro is a neat program that lets you download YouTube and Google Video clips to your hard drive so you can watch them whenever you want. You …

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13 Nov 2007, 14:30 p.m.

Medium-Term Plans

Leonard and I have decided that we'll stay in New York City through the end of 2008. I'm now looking for a tech project management job in Manhattan or environs, so if you have a …

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13 Nov 2007, 12:31 p.m.

Reasoned Discussion? On The Internet?!

A few weeks ago I noticed a short negative mention of Dreaming in Code by Bryan Cantrill and he noticed my notice (per that entry's comments). Author Scott Rosenberg responded with questions about Cantrill's critique, …

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13 Nov 2007, 9:50 a.m.

Just Read And Recommended

Books on the inadvertent themes of the US public school culture and acclimating ourselves to otherness.   John Scalzi's Agent to the Stars, available for free online. A pleasant, fast-paced, and funny if sometimes jarring …

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12 Nov 2007, 12:50 p.m.

Boston Visit and Greyhound Game Theory

On Saturday I took a Greyhound bus to Boston to visit Julia and Moss, who have a new place in Cambridge, Mass. Another objective: to get a day's head start on reuniting with Leonard, who …

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07 Nov 2007, 2:09 a.m.

Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Making Out

Once upon a time, I watched that OK Go treadmill video once a day for a week because it cheered me so. I'm currently there with times Stephen Colbert has broken character, set to "Don't …

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05 Nov 2007, 10:22 a.m.

Ask The Hardest Polite Question You Can

Last week was a tough week for some kings of finance. The heads of Citigroup and Merrill Lynch jumped, or were pushed, out of their jobs. In the months prior there were rumblings at lower …

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01 Nov 2007, 15:14 p.m.

Grab Barg

You'd think that a night that involved hearing a gunshot and visiting a strip club would include gun violence threats AT the strip club, but no! They were separate incidents. A few weeks back, around …

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31 Oct 2007, 11:28 a.m.

SFLC Summit Retrospective, & Bob Loblaw

I went to the Software Freedom Law Center summit a few weeks ago and evidently waited for other folks to give their impressions and reports: Attendee David Boswell on Moglen's talk and the "last lawyer …

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