Quantifying Spin
With the most fiercely fought Canadian election in more than a decade taking place on Monday, the crossfire of political
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With the most fiercely fought Canadian election in more than a decade taking place on Monday, the crossfire of political
Read moreOne of the things that would be good to do would be to keep track of changes to my web
Read moreMy niece’s husband has a computer running Windows XP that, unfortunately, has a virus or malware infection. One thing that
Read moreI’m working on an installation of the new FreeBSD 6.0 release. They promise that the filesystem is more efficient now,
Read moreCheck out the press release and Quicktime web movie of this Guinness commercial featuring evolutionary deep time as a selling
Read moreTake a look at this article and see if you find it disturbing. It essentially says that the EU and
Read moreSomething that I recently found a need for was adding spell checking to web input forms. With a WordPress installation
Read moreI needed to have a change made to add a CNAME alias in the DNS for a domain, where the
Read moreBack in 1994, Diane and I were taking an animal behavior course from Dr. Jane Packard. Part of the course
Read moreWhitlow Au’s The Sonar of Dolphins is a treasure-trove of information concerning odontocete biosonar. It does, therefore, cost a fortune.
Read moreBusy, busy, busy. Diane and Gail had a proposal due on Wednesday, so they were putting in a lot of
Read moreSkip Evans sent me a link for a page that presents a long list of LiveCDs — CD-ROMs that your
Read moreI’ve installed the Mozilla Firefox browser on the machines here after a particularly vicious spyware trojan got installed on one
Read moreFor years, my sister and others have tried to get me to install various “voice chat” programs that would allow
Read moreIn a good news item, The European Union rejected a bill to establish “software patents”. They were trying to call
Read moreI am conducting an experiment in this post. I am pointing to an MP3 encoded sound file where I discuss
Read moreA couple of weeks ago, FreeBSD 5.3 was released, marking the first such release of 5.x marked as “stable”. So
Read moreThere are a few applications that tie me to having a MicroSoft Windows workstation. One of those is Corel Draw,
Read moreThere is one moment when a spammer must be truthful. No matter how many lies are in his materials, when
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