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The sun is shining, I feel good, and no-one’s gonna stop me now, oh yeah! Today I woke up before my alarm clock (is that the prettiest English for “wekker”?), and I was thinking code! Yea, baby! Religion has left the building, it’s now Python and C++, with Boost, to build cool Ferguson HMM’s with [...]

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I don’t think much of ADD, it is the subject of too much apparent controversy and disagreement. (Is there such a thing? Is it really a disorder, or is it nothing other than ordinary neurodiversity?) I do not even want to bother thinking whether I might have it or not. The potentially more useful question [...]

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Last week a friend sent me a pdf, The Low-Information Diet: How to Eliminate E-Mail Overload and Tripe Productivity in 24 Hours. Go check it out, it is thought provoking and applicable in many fields (not just email). “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of [...]

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Calling these niggles might be somewhat euphemistic? My first was the nuisance of actually finding these answers or workarounds. I suppose it’s easy enough for me, but despite being a techie, it was still somewhat time consuming. Now imagine the “lay person”… they just end up calling the nearest Ubuntu using techie, e.g. their brother? [...]

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Another of the things that keep me awake at night (lately I’ve been tired enough, but anyway) is the sounds of mice (or rats?) going crazy on my ceiling, chewing things, tearing things (insulation)… I need to get rid of them. I don’t mind killing (as difficult as it sometimes is, death is a fact [...]

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This is a rant. Enjoy / be warned. I am tired. Religion is killing me. Despite having successfully lobotomised myself, eradicated the evil brain-washings that found their way into my head when I was young and impressionable, these same brain-washings were apparently still ruling my life. It still kept me awake at night, still got [...]

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Savage Chickens doesn’t usually seem particularly deep, in my experience. Maybe this wasn’t meant as particularly deep either. Art is like that though: you get to see things in it that weren’t necessarily explicitly meant by the author. Then again, maybe there is always something deep, and it’s purely my experience that is lacking? I [...]

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Go read Real Live Preacher‘s essay on religious indoctrination of children, titled Soft True Strong & You. Stunning.

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In some circles there is great conflict about “creation versus evolution”. The debate is a Vietnam. (While some see the Vietnam War as a civil war between communists and non-communist factions, it may also be seen as a Cold War conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.) As Wikipedia points out, “other fields of [...]

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Conversations with friends force me to think more critically about Spiderman 3. Yes, it was sentimental fluff; yes, if you had big expectations and a good memory of 1 and 2, you might be severely disappointed. In my case, I didn’t really have any expectations, I wasn’t particularly excited about it, and my memory of [...]

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