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On Google

Posted on March 28, 2010 by method

This is a long, rambling diatribe that took me a couple weeks to write during odd hours. In that time it seemed that there was another major Google-related story every week and I kept coming up with new insights to … Continue reading →

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A Bit of Wisdom

Posted on January 8, 2010 by method

People think that there are authorities out there with direct knowledge when in fact there is no direct knowledge, there is only focal knowledge, knowledge that is located around a set of practices, discourses, institutional locations, etc. So for example … Continue reading →

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Syntax Stupid Idea

Posted on June 23, 2009 by method

I’m a big fan of English-like programming syntax. I love that Ruby has an unless operator and that both it and if can be put after the statement, like do_this if this or do_this unless that . I also like … Continue reading →

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Another Stupid Idea

Posted on June 12, 2009 by method

Oh hai. I’ll start writing here again, I swear. This is just a quick “I had an idea” post. An idea for a Firefox extension/Jetpack plugin: You right-click on some text, select “speak it”, the text gets sent to the … Continue reading →

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Non-Rails Autotest + RSpec + LibNotify + Linux

Posted on March 15, 2009 by method

Each of those terms actually means something! If you don’t know what any one of those terms means, then you probably won’t enjoy this post. It’s surprising that something so cool and so central to the Ruby TDD world as … Continue reading →

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Progress on “Menagerie”

Posted on March 7, 2009 by method

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As I Avoid This Sleep

Posted on January 29, 2009 by method

This reminded me of a local meme1 in my office, based on the blank cat is blank global meme. But while I have your attention, I want to talk about my software plans. One thing I’ve meant to work on … Continue reading →

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As I Drink This Beer

Posted on January 20, 2009 by method

A dystopian “control” society based on distraction. Remember, in Brave New World it’s entertainment, in Brazil it’s bureaucracy and prolishness, in 1984 it’s fear and propaganda… but distraction as such is something different. You set your mind to do something … Continue reading →

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2008

Posted on January 18, 2009 by method

You can’t really tell from this blog what I’ve been doing in the past year (or in previous years, either). Partly this is due to a congenital habit of not discussing anything that is directly relevant to my life. To … Continue reading →

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Weird Spam

Posted on January 14, 2009 by method

I actually wrote this a couple of months ago, but I was too shy to post it then. I get the occasional weird spam mails that are sent to the alexandria-list-owner and I’m not sure if I can safely spam … Continue reading →

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