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Quick Facts

By matt, on January 30th, 2006%

The United States has 4.6 percent of the population of the world but 22.5 percent of the . . . → Read More: Quick Facts

I’d seen TiddlyWiki a while ago, but the 2.0 version is kinda swish. This is a Wiki in a webpage; through the magic of Javascript, it allows you to edit a webpage, in the browser, and have the content saved back into the same file. What you end up with is a functional Wiki in one . . . → Read More: TiddlyWiki 2.0

Building a server

By matt, on January 17th, 2006%

I’ll be posting over on untyping about the building of our new server, for those who are interested. It’s a long way from my first Slackware install in the basement of the Physics department . . . → Read More: Building a server

The Iliad

By matt, on January 13th, 2006%

What a wonderful name! Sony just never seems to get things right with marketing and branding. Between the death of the minidisc as a viable digital format for music, and it’s complete failure to capture the MP3 market, they stand to miss out on the ebook market as well, just for lack of features and poor . . . → Read More: The Iliad

Backup notes

By matt, on January 11th, 2006%

My del.ici.ous bookmark widget doesn’t want to work—something must have changed. So, a few links I want to revisit regarding backups:

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Backup/index.shtml
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/01/rsync.html
http://acs-wiki.andrew.cmu.edu/twiki/bin/view/Cyrus/Backup

To be . . . → Read More: Backup notes

Backing things up

By matt, on January 10th, 2006%

I’ve long feared the use of CD-R and DVD-R as backup media. They are fundamentally unstable technologies. The burn might look good, and it might verify, but 1 year later I might not be able to read the data. I know tape is a great deal more stable, but I’ve often been put off by the . . . → Read More: Backing things up

Policing the world?

By matt, on January 10th, 2006%

I’m reposting this Guardian article in full. Someone will yell at me, if necessary, to pull it.

American troops in Baghdad yesterday blasted their way into the home of an Iraqi journalist working for the Guardian and Channel 4, firing bullets into the bedroom where he was sleeping with his wife and children.

Ali Fadhil, who two months . . . → Read More: Policing the world?

Road Song Lyrics

By matt, on January 8th, 2006%

The US Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration maintains a page of road song lyrics.

Wacky. . . . → Read More: Road Song Lyrics

Sony Reader (followup)

By matt, on January 7th, 2006%

Image lifted from Engadget.

To followup my eBook rant, it looks like the Sony Reader is close to what I want. It docs via USB, and has the ability to read PDFs; that’s good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have search capability: that’s bad. (Details filtered through Engadget.)

So. Lets see.

Just starting job.
Big student loans.
Mindstorms NXT
Sony Reader

This set of . . . → Read More: Sony Reader (followup)

What is bias?

By matt, on January 6th, 2006%

Bias is reporting 11 dead instead of 125.

The headline from the New York Times “International” section:

The headline from the Scotsman “International” section:

This is called bias, boys and girls. It is how you help an administration brainwash a nation. The 11 US soldiers who died volunteered to be in the military, for good or bad. Through action . . . → Read More: What is bias?

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