Tumbling
I’m mostly over here now. Tumbling is like blogging without all of the giving a shit.
For what it’s worth, I think that WordPress is the best blogging platform. It just turns out that a blogging platform isn’t what I’m really looking for.
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Caveat emptor?
Rejecta Mathematica | Caveat Emptor
Rejecta Mathematica is a new, open access, online journal that publishes only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals (or conferences with comparable review standards) in the mathematical sciences. We are currently seeking submissions for our inaugural issue.
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Mike Huckabee: f**king insane
AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK, all Chuck Norris jokes notwithstanding.
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Leopard is the New Vista, and It’s Pissing Me Off – Yahoo! News
I’m not sure what ticks me off more about Leoptard (I can’t take credit for that nickname—some Brit coined it): the fact that so many of the semi-important changes don’t work, the fact that Apple turned a stable OS into a crash-happy glitz fest, or that the annoying, scruffy Live Free or Die Hard actor infecting my TV (and our Web site, by the way) is pretending that Leopard is better than Vista. It’s not better than Vista. Leopard is Vista. And Tiger is better than both of them!
My last post notwithstanding, I’m trying to put Ubuntu on my messed up iBook right now. I don’t think it’ll work, I suspect that the logic board is what killed it. But it couldn’t hurt.
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It’s difficult to become knowledgeable about computing without becoming a fanatic. I feel like I’ve achieved this balance, though it hasn’t been easy. So allow me to introduce myself, I am the reasonable computer nerd.
- I’m savvy enough to care about open source software, but not fanatical enough to use it exclusively, especially when commercial software is better
- I’m savvy enough to have a favorite text editor, but not fanatical enough for that editor to be Emacs
- I’m savvy enough to have bought a Mac, but not fanatical enough to have bought another one when the first one broke
- I’m savvy enough to use Linux, but not fanatical enough to abandon the convenience of commercial operating systems
- I’m savvy enough to write code, but not fanatical enough to decry WYSIWYG editors
In other words, computing, like life, should be based in part on philosophy and in part on pragmatic considerations.
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