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Rumors of my death...
etc. etc.
I blame Comcast, and lack of decent, uh, something (mumble).
FWIW, I really do miss all of you when I go caving, but that doesn't prevent my spelunking. :D
"I cannot fiddle but I can make a great state of a small city." -
Anyone up for a political movie this weekend?
Al Gore's global warming movie "An Inconvenient Truth" opens this weekend at Tara. Anyone want to pick a time and go?
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/inconvenient_truth -
Willie Nelson @ The Tabernacle
Willie Nelson
The Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
Fri, Feb 24, 2006 08:00 PM
Dammit, I keep saying I should go to more shows--I gotta start somewhere. :D
Tickets go on sell this Saturday; anyone interested in going? -
But passion and party blind our eyes
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us.
--Samuel Coleridge
The turth on troop moraleIf you don't want to read the above Op-Ed, the gist is: during Vietnam, the White House said ( Read more... ) -
Decoding Mr. Bush's Denials
I've ignored LJ for a while, so here's a nice Op-Ed from The Times that gives a "historical" view of Bush's dodge tactics on the WMD question. :)
"Mr. Bush said last Friday that he welcomed debate, even in a time of war, but that "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began." We agree, but it is Mr. Bush and his team ( Read more... ) -
How Plamegate Hurts the Net
The time is ripe to reconsider what protections speech needs in an increasingly digital democracy. On the one hand, we need to recognize the special and fundamental role that journalists play in a free society. On the other hand, we need to recognize that many more individuals, unassociated with traditional newspapers, magazines and television ( Read more... ) -
and a Merry FitzMas to you too!
Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Lawyers Report
I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday ( Read more... ) -
DeLaydenfreude
Ahhhh...Tom DeLay's mugshot. My day just got better. -
Tell, Don't Ask
(crossposted from: my wiki.)
Here’s a nice principle from The Pragmatic Programmers (you can find a PDF of the article here.)
One of our favorite OO principles is “Tell, Don’t Ask” (see IEEE Software, Jan./Feb. 2003, p. 10). To recap briefly: as an industry, we’ve come to think of software in terms of function calls. Even in OO systems, we view ( Read more... )
