Author Archives: David Terrell

Running windows sucks

Posted on November 29, 2003 by David Terrell

but at least you can find out who has installed nasty software that’s spying on you behind your back, popping up ads, and doing god knows what else… Spybot: Search & Destroy

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Gregg Easterbrook

Posted on November 22, 2003 by David Terrell

One of the things I got from my grade school education (and I’ll probably write something more detailed on that at some point) is an appreciation for the fact that often, when two people arrive at the same conclusion from … Continue reading →

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off to california

Posted on November 11, 2003 by David Terrell

I’m travelling to San Jose for the next 5 days. To reach me there, either send an IM or email.

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veterans day

Posted on November 11, 2003 by David Terrell

Veterans day to me has always been kind of a humorous event. It’s my mom’s birthday, and she’s a government employee, so she always gets “her birthday off”, but other than that it hasn’t impacted me that much. After reading … Continue reading →

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ah, java

Posted on November 7, 2003 by David Terrell

Burning hot liquid bitter taste the quicker to my liver waste I’ve let you sit you’ve gotten cold 3 more weeks and you’ll have mold but if I drink you straightaway I can clean my mug for another day

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Dynamic Content

Posted on November 6, 2003 by David Terrell

I hereby vow not to use mod_perl or mod_python for anything, unless someone can convince me that apache2 is stable when doing threaded only serving on unix. I am tired of waiting for Yet Another VM to compile my source … Continue reading →

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Pia-no-mo

Posted on October 30, 2003 by David Terrell

As most of you know, pianosa is going away soon. Why? Well, basically, I don’t have the time anymore. The box has been sucking up space on Andrew Ho’s DSL for the last year, and really, is that necessary? No. … Continue reading →

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which feed to use?

Posted on October 30, 2003 by David Terrell

use index.rdf. for whatever reason index.xml no longer has full text, and who the hell wants that? By the way, I’ve enabled comments. *shrug*.

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And so it begins

Posted on October 30, 2003 by David Terrell

I’ll probably post a few more garbage entries over the next day or two while I shake out the system. In the meantime, read Sy Hersch’s excellent article in the New Yorker on how fucked up our president’s relationship with … Continue reading →

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Welcome to my weblog

Posted on October 29, 2003 by David Terrell

This is my weblog. For syndication, if you’re curious, index.xml is the “RSS 2″ version, which happens to have full text entries. If for some reason you only want useless summaries, grab the RSS 1.0 version at index.rdf. No comments … Continue reading →

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