my kinda governor

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 24 by Anton

Jesse Ventura (according to Rich Hailey) opposes mandating the Pledge of Allegiance in schools, for exactly the right reasons; looks like his libertarian streak is wider than I thought.

2010: newer link

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it strikes me as more Barbara Cartland

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 23 by Anton

Pink Hello Kitty Laptop. (Thanks to Spastic Mutant for the link.)

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penguin problems

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 22 by Anton

Yesterday my Linux box crashed and I spent all evening trying to bring it back to life, with – as they say at NASA – partial success. Argh.

Later: In desperation, I tried ^C when the boot process says “/1 contains a file system with errors, check forced.” Interrupting the check of /1 (whatever that is) lets the boot proceed normally. A temporary solution, but better than nothing.

Linux: Not Ready for Prime Time.

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this view of mortality

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 20 by Anton

Stephen Jay Gould is dead of cancer at sixty. Somehow he always seemed like a youngster to me (despite photographs) – perhaps because I never knew until now that he had two wives and two sons.

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feel safe?

Posted on Sunday, 2002 May 19 by Anton

What Went Wrong, an article about last summer’s Intelligence failure. (Old link dead; two new links)

“If I were an average citizen, I’d be pissed at the whole American government,” says a senior official who has worked on counterterrorism.

I usually am anyway, of course, so I can’t tell the difference.

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to everything there is a season

Posted on Saturday, 2002 May 18 by Anton

A little-appreciated advantage of the French Republican calendar: only three months have no R.

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every measure leads to a countermeasure

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 17 by Anton

Fun with Fingerprint Readers in Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram (link from Monty Solomon)

2015: Newer link.

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