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Monthly Archive for January, 2008

links for 2008-01-21

Posted in links on Jan 21st, 2008

Embedded Systems Design - Embedded.com
(tags: development programming statistics loc)

Vote For Chili

Posted in social issues on Jan 21st, 2008

In the previous two Presidential Election cycles I made good use of the resources found at Project Vote Smart, especially the “political courage test.” Over the weekend I took some time to poke around the biographies of the major candidates for 2008 and was dismayed to discover that none of them have completed the test. [...]

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links for 2008-01-20

Posted in links on Jan 20th, 2008

Looking for Wordpress jobs
(tags: jobs wordpress)

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links for 2008-01-19

Posted in links on Jan 19th, 2008

Classical Computer Science Texts
(tags: programming free eBook e-learning reference computer)

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links for 2008-01-18

Posted in links on Jan 18th, 2008

The Programmer’s Food Pyramid at Oliver Steele
(tags: code programming)

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links for 2008-01-17

Posted in links on Jan 17th, 2008

one digital life » Blog Archive » 90 Minute Macworld Keynote in 60 Seconds
Better and better and better
(tags: humor macintosh jobs)

In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for? - Knowledge Base
(tags: unix linux reference trivia)

The Second World
Finally, a working definition of the Second World.
(tags: sociology toread travel)

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links for 2008-01-16

Posted in links on Jan 16th, 2008

Pasta Theory of Programming
I’ll have the ravioli please.
(tags: programming humor geek)

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Minor tweaks

Posted in nerdliness on Jan 15th, 2008

I’ve fiddled around with the header image, finally getting the original image in its entirety once again. The cropped image was nice enough, but I prefer the one I’ve had for most of the past decade. The image is a slice of an old Corel wallpaper called Autumn Coast, which I’ve misplaced. [...]

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