Author Archives: David Terrell

Useless celebrations

Regarding all the recent hubbub over 7/7/7, I just thought I’d complain that I lived in (847) on 7/7/3 and (773) on 8/4/7. Dangit. This after I missed my planned party on Sep 8th 2001. Being a numbers geek isn’t … Continue reading

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Outsourcing

At this point I think it’s time I outsourced most of my del.icio.us feed to Simon Willison… (Update: Simon’s last name corrected per comments, sorry.)

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Sleeping

Howto sleep in Boston for under $50 as I recently discovered on NPR radio, humans have difficulty sleeping first nights in rooms I was just talking yesterday about how I don’t trust my brain to react to stimuli in the … Continue reading

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Yard environmentalism

Kathy Schrenk notes a story on the problem of gas-powered lawn mowers and other similar devices. The problem with the non-mowing solutions outlined is that a lot of them are also bad for the groundwater supply. Every square foot of … Continue reading

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Erlang

I’ve started using it at work. So far, it’s pretty fantastic. More to come in the next couple of days.

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Form Libraries

Ian Bicking rants about how worthless they are so I don’t have to. Look, HTML is a much more approachable standard than python code. You have to write HTML to make your site work. Why would you try to move … Continue reading

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Tivo: Dialing forever

James Robinson mentions his first-gen Tivo has the wrong timezone — fortunately it seems that Tivo was smart enough to send show times in epoch time instead of local time so recordings still work. My DirecTivo had similar problems, but … Continue reading

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Fox News

For some reason, the Democratic Party of Nevada agreed to host a debate of 2008 democratic presidential contenders with Fox News providing the questioners. After a lot of people pointed out how dumb this is, given the kind of crap … Continue reading

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Girls Suspended Over 'Vagina Monologues'

AP Story. I think I can safely say that the administration’s overreation is far more toxic than anybody hearing the word “Vagina”

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First Etsy sale

My wife is all excited that her first Etsy-listed item. That’s awesome. I first saw the site mentioned on Sam Ruby’s aggregator. Now I guess I need to finish up her Django site so she can promote her stuff there … Continue reading

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