What to make of all the hullaballoo over grocery store loyalty cards?
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Author: paul
the sweetest smell
Since I have been on involuntary retirement, I have been baking all the bread we eat. I happen to like bread a lot and I find the usual mass produced cotton bread to be unpalatable and the artisan stuff (at $3 a loaf and up) to be not much better than I make, if any.
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an @home project I like
Apple – Science & Technology – Stanford University
Distributed protein folding research
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removing nimda/code red’s lingering effects
I get tired of nimda requests from my infected “network neighbors.”
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insanely great tools
One way to upgrade from OS 9 to OS X, non-destructively.
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anyone got a clue by four?
These guys still don’t realize their all-singing all dancing website is broken. <sigh>
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one swallow may not make a summer
Google Search: hummingbird anna’s rufous
but one hummingbird is enough to convince me it’s springtime. I assume it’s a rufous hummingbird since it’s always the second week of May when we see them: Anna’s hummingbirds range up into Alaska and could overwinter here, but I never see any after September or so.
netstumbling
“We have to work on our reputation for security in the marketplace.”
Salon.com Technology | Microsoft says penalty will let hackers run wild
Many Microsoft witnesses, including Chairman Bill Gates, say that Microsoft is unable to make a modular Windows because the different features — like the Internet browser and media player — are dependent on each other.
This is a contrived limitation, as I hope the judge realizes. Analogous comparisons are easy to come up with: one of the big automakers claiming their cars won’t run correctly without their own brand of audio equipment comes to mind.
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The Principle Of Least Astonishment
POLA stands for “The Principle Of Least Astonishment,” which means that when you introduce changes into an established system you should do so in a way that does the least damage to continuity from one system to another.
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