Author Archives: David Terrell

Credibility Problem

Posted on March 27, 2004 by David Terrell

The smear campaign against Richard Clarke continues. For a bit of perspective on the charges leveled at him by the 9/11 Commission, and in particular John Lehman (former secretary of the navy under Reagan), check out this excellent rebuttal from … Continue reading →

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give 'em the boot

Posted on March 26, 2004 by David Terrell

Thanks to drudgereport.com for the link (via wonkette)

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don't bushes wither when pulled from the soil?

Posted on March 22, 2004 by David Terrell

A man of the people? It’s all fucking propoganda.

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Political Roundup

Posted on March 22, 2004 by David Terrell

for those of you busy watching Clarke on 60 minutes, check out a few of these: a video of Eric Alterman (author of What Liberal Media?, The Book On Bush and Altercation) appearing on Dennis Miller’s soon to be doomed … Continue reading →

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wxBlog II

Posted on March 18, 2004 by David Terrell

wxBlog is now very close to prime time. It doesn’t puke out exceptions all the time and it has some semblence of sanity on how often it polls. There’s still no real preferences dialogs and there’s no automatic polling yet, … Continue reading →

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java generics suck

Posted on March 14, 2004 by David Terrell

Bruce Eckles thinks Java Generics suck And, upon reading what he’s said…. I think I agree. Having recently been studying C++ templating seriously for the first time… egads. Java 1.5 generics don’t come close.

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wxBlog

Posted on March 14, 2004 by David Terrell

I’m a dork, and am writing a small python application as an RSS/atom client. Why? 1) mark pilgrim was kind enough to do almost all of the heavy lifting. (the only real rss-y thing i needed to write was something … Continue reading →

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encap python

Posted on March 10, 2004 by David Terrell

how to encap python in one simple easy step. (in fact, there’s more than one way to do it, though I recommend option #2) make the /usr/local/bin/python symlink a hardlink instead drop a file in /usr/local/encap/python-X.Y.Z/lib/pythonX.Y called sitecustomize.py that consists … Continue reading →

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bush soft on terror

Posted on March 5, 2004 by David Terrell

[sorry about the lame formatting, this is transcribed from internet chat] the fact that the pentagon wanted to take out zarqawi and the NSC shot it down because it would make the larger iraq war harder to sell still boggles … Continue reading →

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blogging about a blog about blogging

Posted on March 3, 2004 by David Terrell

This blog entry about “how do you blog about work” got me thinking. If your boss caught you bitching about your job in a bar to a friend, would he care (assuming you weren’t telling him all about your company’s … Continue reading →

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