Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

Posts for 2007

26 Apr 2007, 12:52 p.m.

QOTD

"You can't destroy the master's house with the master's tools; it's against the tools' EULA."

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26 Apr 2007, 1:28 a.m.

Horcrucio!

The PDF of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that's floating around is in fact Melinda Leo's very nice "The Seventh Horcrux". Markers: more sex and profanity and overall emphasis on personal relationships than in …

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25 Apr 2007, 7:25 a.m.

Tales Of The SDS

I was trying to find the details of a story Seth once told me and found some memorable archives on his blog: a great eulogy for Fred Rogers and a thoughtful report from my Apollo …

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24 Apr 2007, 11:05 a.m.

Firefox 2.0.x Memory "Leak" Fix

Aha! Firefox 2's memory usage goes down if you change a few about:config settings. The specific preferences: browser.cache.memory.capacity, browser.cache.memory.enable, and browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers. I'm trying this out now in hopes that FF2 stops driving me crazy.

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22 Apr 2007, 14:53 p.m.

Pizza Tip

Leonard and I get New York-style pizza from Sac's Place at Broadway & 29th St. in Astoria, Queens, NYC. We get plain cheese pies, or sausage-topped ones for Leonard, and then Leonard roasts some garlic …

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22 Apr 2007, 13:48 p.m.

Want a Danish? I can see by the look on your face that you've got ringworm.

You have probably already seen that you can download Van Morrison's entire contractual obligation album or just view the lyrics. But Michael, Evan, and Stuart hadn't known of it, and none of us had heard …

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22 Apr 2007, 10:16 a.m.

Straw Men

Did I ever tell you about the striped straw experiment and deciding to be happy? From a column I wrote about a year ago: ...straw fortune-telling, or bendymancy. For breakfast every school morning, I had …

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21 Apr 2007, 12:32 p.m.

Futurama Lives

I work in the heart of New York's historic Garment, um, Fashion District (the bit with the giant button and needle poking out of the ground at 40th St and 7th Ave), yet I rarely …

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21 Apr 2007, 12:14 p.m.

Between Transparency And The Paywall

You are important. You are worthwhile. Your time and effort have value. Right now, a very good way to indicate and articulate and leverage your value is by making sure you get money in return. …

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20 Apr 2007, 9:24 a.m.

Networking Layers

Here are the networking documentation layers of interestingness/readability, from highest to lowest: Neal Stephenson Bossman Joel Conversation with knowledgable friend People on Ask Metafilter Wikipedia The book I'm reading Microsoft knowledge base RFC-type spec

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