Monthly Archives: October 2010

50,000 Word Stories: NaNoWriMo 2010

Posted on October 31, 2010 by MXH

November is National Novel Writing Month. I’m going to take a crack at it. The goal of NaNoWriMo is to crank out 50,000 words in a month — it’s all about volume, not quality. The embarrassment potential is really high … Continue reading →

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Six Word Stories: Inspection

Posted on October 30, 2010 by MXH

Upon review, the e-mails became disturbing.

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Directory Monitor

Posted on October 29, 2010 by MXH

With iOS 4.0, AAPL brought File Sharing to the iPhone. This feature is pretty simple to turn on (basically, you just “[a]dd the UIFileSharingEnabled key to your application’s Info.plist file and set the value of the key to YES“, and … Continue reading →

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Paternity Testing

Posted on October 28, 2010 by MXH

I saw this excerpt (the original article is paywalled) on NRO today: DNA tests are an anti-feminist appliance of science, a change in the balance of power between the sexes that we’ve hardly come to terms with. And that holds … Continue reading →

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Your Dreams and You

Posted on October 27, 2010 by MXH

Here’s a Public Service Announcement for you. It’s harsh, but it needs to be said: Your dreams are deathly boring to everyone else.* Now, I know this is hard to believe. As Ed Tom Bell put it in “No Country … Continue reading →

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Six Word Stories: Love

Posted on October 26, 2010 by MXH

“Kevin’s definition of ‘love’ is … flexible.”

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Codas

Posted on October 25, 2010 by MXH

I like a well-turned coda. Here are some of my favorites. Neuromancer He never saw Molly again. Black Hawk Down (Film) Major General William F. Garrison accepted full responsibility for the outcome of the raid. On August 2, 1996, Warlord … Continue reading →

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Deficit Concerns

Posted on October 24, 2010 by MXH

Consider this story: The president has signaled that at the start of the new year, he will speak more directly to the country about the financial choices ahead. “If we’re going to get serious about the deficit, then we’re going … Continue reading →

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Six Word Stories: Wrestling

Posted on October 23, 2010 by MXH

Sumo wrestling remained confined to Japan.

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Synchronization Efficiency Proof

Posted on October 22, 2010 by MXH

Last Friday I described an algorithm that would generate lists of insert and delete operations which would transform a subject list s.t. it would match a target list. I wanted the algorithm to be efficient, both in terms of its … Continue reading →

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