QotD

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 April 28 by Anton

Miss Froy in The Lady Vanishes (1938)

I never think you should judge any country by its politics. After all, we English are quite honest by nature, aren’t we?

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words

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 April 28 by Anton

One often hears mention of “the greater Boston area”. So how come you never hear of “the lesser Boston area”?

In unrelated news, I misread the headline “Satire is dead” as “[William] Safire is dead” and wondered why Charlie would know or care.

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the logical end of zoning

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 April 27 by Anton

Eyesore of the Month, December

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resolution

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 April 27 by Anton

I’m not gonna bore my readers by moaning about depression and solitude. I’m not . . . .

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hell no, I’m too old to go!

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 April 27 by Anton

Recent reading: Julian Sanchez (and those whom he links, and so on) on the specter of conscription. Will Wilkinson‘s argument (from last summer) is especially readworthy.

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the bright side

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 April 21 by Anton

Blogdom rejoice: come next week I’m unemployed again.

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GPL goes to court

Posted on Monday, 2004 April 19 by Anton

netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom GmbH

“To my knowledge, this is the first case in which a judicial decision has been decreed on the applicability and the validity of the GNU GPL”, says Dr. Till Jaeger, partner of the Berlin and Munich based law firm JBB Rechtsanwaelte that represented the netfilter/iptables project in the litigation.

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