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Monday (3/21/2007) night, the Platonic Touch Brewery/Laboratory executed its second round of bottling and its third round of brewing.  The Octoberfest and Irish Stout were bottled.  A German Altbeir (old beer) and red ale are now in the first stage of fermenting.  This means ( Read more... )

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I have made my first tangible contribution to the open source world!

IPPI (IP Printer Installer) is a program to help users and administrators deal with installing IP based printers without a centralized print server.  It’s not revolutionary but, it has certainly saved a lot of ( Read more... )

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Always a fan of the United States Constitution, when I saw The “Silent” Ninth Amendment Gives Americans Rights They Don’t Know They Have I was quite intrigued.   An interesting bit because I don’t recall my U.S. Government Class discussing much of the Ninth Amendment.  Amendment ( Read more... )

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The New York Times Magazine looks at the effects of the Farm Bill on American diet and obesity. I have been a long time supporter of local farmers and organic foods. Additionally, I find it difficult to explain to many people why I make the effort to spend more money on less ( Read more... )

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A history of Free Software and Open Source Software. BTW, I’m firmly in the Free Software camp. You just can’t argue with RMS’s ideology.

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Atheist mourn too.

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Zome may describe all things (watch the video). Then again, it might not. Despite it’s usefulness for modeling the universe, it does look like a lot of fun. This is also the first time I believe that my mind was fully wrapped around the idea of geometric projections of the ( Read more... )

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How To Tell Stuff To A Computer - The Enigmatic Art of Knowledge Representation is a lengthy article (that I have yet to finish) about computers and semantics that I found via Reddit.  The article is quite broad and not too technical.

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This is a video in the Advanced Topics in Programing Languages Series from the collection of Google Tech Talk sessions.  Since I took a type  theory class last fall, I’ve had a hard on for the Haskell programming language.  This video does a good job of showing the power of ( Read more... )

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Over the years, I’ve registered several domain names. Globoco.net is one of these domains and is the Internet home for Globoco Networks. Globoco Networks is the holding company for all of my assets (none). Given the important nature of Globoco Networks, it is important for ( Read more... )