Category Archives: technology

duelling policies

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 November 10 by Anton

Mark A R Kleiman says a number of sane things, but also this: Requiring everyone who wants to have a gun to apply for a discretionary permit . . . serves no good purpose that I can see. The same … Continue reading →

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catching stragglers

Posted on Thursday, 2004 October 21 by Anton

If you’ve written something that intercepts HTTP requests for missing pages and makes an educated guess where they should go, do you mind sharing it?

Posted in blogdom, me!me!me!, neep-neep | 6 Comments

a limit to fission?

Posted on Thursday, 2004 October 21 by Anton

Say, is the number of telephone lines dedicated to modems declining, as traffic moves to broadband? NANPA might know: it affects how soon more areas will need to be split or overlain.

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leet for dummies?

Posted on Monday, 2004 October 18 by Anton

I wonder whether anyone has published a book with a title like 1337 Programming Tips.

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Hello world!

Posted on Monday, 2004 October 18 by Anton

Coming to you almost live on WordPress, because one host ought to be enough for anyone. Even cooler, it’s all written in PHP; no Javascript needed. Conversion from Blogger was surprisingly easy. Now to customize it — because I really … Continue reading →

Posted in blogdom, neep-neep | 2 Comments

wahoo!

Posted on Thursday, 2004 October 14 by Anton

We have broadband! Mainly because my housemate wanted to listen to BBC without glitches, but hey, I’m not kicking it out of bed. For the first year it’s cheaper than dialup plus the extra phone line.