Monthly Archives: January 2011

Directory Monitoring and GCD

A reader (@ramsch) writes to call my attention to his post on AAPL’s developer forums (unfortunately you need to log in as a developer to see it … scroll to the bottom of page 2 — reply #38 — if … Continue reading

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Plumbing

Today I replaced a toilet fill valve. I could have called a plumber, of course, but after my alternator experience I decided I’d prefer to do it myself. It was surprisingly gratifying to fix something physical, as opposed to pushing … Continue reading

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Marriage

(Editorial note: This is pretty U.S.- and California-centric.) For the past few years, there’s been a fair bit of chatter about same-sex marriage. Many of those who argue against it speak in terms of “defending marriage”. For instance, the National … Continue reading

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Six Word Stories: Mountaineers

Waiting pigeons minimized the mountaineers’ achievement.

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Shadowrun

Once upon a time, I played a modest amount of paper-and-pencil Shadowrun. Recently, due to the magic of emulators, I had the opportunity to play (in a totally IP-respecting way, for sure!) both the Genesis and SNES 16-bit Shadowrun games. … Continue reading

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Tourism Slogans

I’m planning a trip to Columbia later this year, and stopped by (among other sites) the official Proexport Columbia tourism site. There I saw what I take to be Columbia’s official tourism tagline: Columbia, the only risk is wanting to … Continue reading

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Six Word Stories: Submarine

Three bears investigated the surfaced submarine. (Editorial Note: Another true story.)

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Fightcard Update

AAPL’s approved my latest update of Fightcard, a simple app that you can use to score boxing matches. This version includes some UI tweaks, as well as OpenScoring integration. (OS is a new service with which I’m experimenting.) Fightcard is … Continue reading

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Mother of the Year

Walking through a supermarket parking lot, I saw a large, misshapen woman buckling her unfortunate son into his government-mandated child seat. “Now we’re going to wait here for Daddy for about half an hour,” she said. “Just like always.” What … Continue reading

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Tuscon

A few thoughts on the unpleasantness in Tuscon. Libel First of all, the initial attempts to draw a connection between conservative commentators and politicians and the shooting were not only ridiculous, but, in hindsight, transparently disingenuous. Not only was there … Continue reading

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