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Thursday, November 24, 2005
Movie Recommendation: Dirty War

I watched an excellent BBC/HBO drama last night called 'Dirty War' (Netflix).

London sets the stage for this 21st century thriller about a major terrorist attack. The HBO feature follows both the terrorists as they plan the attack and the police and intelligence forces as they uncover the plot and try to apprehend the terrorists. After a detonation in central London, the story shifts to emergency procedures in the aftermath of a "dirty bomb" explosion.

Sobering.

Categories: Huh?
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. --Publilius Syrus


Saturday, April 30, 2005
Tiger Installation Tips

O'reilly MacDevCenter: Everything You Need to Know to Install Tiger

Categories: MacOS X
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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something. --Richard Feynman


Saturday, April 23, 2005
Even Amazon is on the Tiger Bandwagon

On the front page of Amazon.com this morning:

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Categories: MacOS X
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong. --Richard Feynman


Wednesday, April 6, 2005
Forty

I'm forty years old today...and I'm in a really rotten mood. I didn't think it would be such a big deal, but my subconscious is telling a different story.

Categories: Me
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It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived. --Publilius Syrus


Monday, April 4, 2005
Backyard Bandits: The Arms Race Continues

Three years ago, I was feeling smarter than a squirel. Well, the squirrel's have caught up:

Time for another trip to the bird-feeder store....

Categories: Family
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I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person. --Socrates