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As most of you know, my political beliefs are all over the map and don’t really settle down into any of the major political parties.  At the moment, I’ve been really focusing on Democratic politics just because, well, watching them eat their young is a lot of fun.
One of the news  stories this week is […]

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I’ve created a new website for my development projects.  This site is still for commentary and what is going on in my life, etc.  The blog entries that will be on the developer site will be exclusively about issues surrounding the code I write.  So if you want to stay tuned to my commentary on […]

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I am a late adopter (or, at least, a semi-late adopter) of Leopard because I wanted to start working with the new version of XCode and install some freeware programs that were Leopard-only.  Boy, was it a waste.  My laptop works worse now than it did under Tiger.  I’ve had multiple problems so far.  First, […]

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Well, I’m sitting at the Virginia Tech/Villanova booth at SIGCSE and there’s a lull in the crowd.  Ordinarily, I’d leave the reviews of websites to my brother but I figured this one was obscure enough to warrant me stepping in.  I thought I’d post something about a new feed I’d found.  It’s called "The Art […]

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For those of you who don’t know, I’m at SIGCSE this week.  So far things have been interesting.  Can’t say that I’ve really learned anything new; the sessions I picked were duds, unfortunately and the others were lending moral support to colleagues.  I do think I have an idea of something to do with Jess, […]

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Jess and I were lucky enough to attend a lecture that was given by Dr. Goodwin last year where she was promoting her new book, Team of Rivals.  I read this book over Christmas break and into January.  It is easily one of the most engrossing history books you’ll ever read. 
The book centers around […]

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One of the news stories of the day is that there is a letter that is going out to taxpayers to tell you how much your tax rebate is going to be.  People are griping about the fact that it costs $42 million.  If you figure that 1/3 of Americans get a letter, that’s 100 […]

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You sit down one day.  You start to read a book and it’s very good.  You sit down the next day.  Pick up another book.  The next day it’s something else.  It’s not intentional and you like all of the books but your mind is on a bunch of different things and you read a […]

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Yeah.  That’s right.  You.  Thought we wouldn’t catch you, didn’t ya?  Well we did.  You’re in violation of patent number 5,175,857.  Go ahead.  Go to Google patents and see for yourself.  Did any of you ever do a programming assignment involving sorting?  Have you ever sorted a list of strings?  You’ve violated the copyright.  Have […]

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