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Laurence Simon of Amish Tech Support, weary from the media attention brought on by his exposure of a scandal in Washington, returned briefly to his old form yesterday. Heh heh.
(2004 Oct 19: Those links have gone bad, but I have not given up tracking them down at another site.)

Hey, when will the folks behind Movable Type fix that bug that appends a useless #000000 to every permalink? (Or is that fix part of the paid version?) Luckily for you, your humble correspondent here goes that extra yard to strip out unnecessary fields from any links, probably saving you several Planck units of download time whenever you visit here. It’s just one way of saying thanks for helping to make me the world’s 8th 44th 42d 53d most famous “Sherwood”.

Here at Ogre Labs we care about every stray byte. Why, I remember the time – what? Oh.

2006: I’m now 34th.

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keep on saunterin’

Heard on the radio: June 19 is World Sauntering Day.

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no honor among thieves

AlterNet: The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney. Greg Palast blames her dis-election on her being widely quoted for something she never said. But wasn’t she also slammed for race-baiting?

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. . and fish

Practical ontology

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not enough gamekeepers.

Amazon World is a blog made up of quotes from readers’ reviews.

Oh, yes, every day people wake up to find themselves turned into a cockroach and have to deal with living as one. I’m just real sure!

Cited (twice) by Doc Frank, whose Blogs of War recently moved.

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the copper peril

Could a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building kill a pedestrian on the street below? The Experiment. (Thanks again to Joanne Schmitz)

2021: Closing comments on this one to cut down a little bit on spam.

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argh

Another thing I’d like to know is why I was able to run cdrecord on Red Hat 6.2 but not on 7.1 or 9.

Later: The CDR had gone bad in the interim. I replaced it with a DVD/CD burner.)

Laterer: Which seems to have gone bad in turn, within eight months.

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