point “I feel that most people would consider marriage more than just a metaphor. Whether viewed in a religious, legal, or romantic light, I think that marriage for most people represents a covenant that people come to rely on, and…
after 14 hours, much of it spent in detriot. a cascade of small errors (bags didn’t get checked through to boston, didn’t have boarding passes from detriot to boston, didn’t check the time after rechecking bag and getting boarding passes…
i haven’t checked my email for a week. which may be the first time that’s happened since i got my unc email account in the fall of 98. (i’m frightened to check it.) “you have 272 new messages.” (177—65%!—were spam)…
i’ve been buckling down to build the financial system for work–as a proxy for my masters project. eventually i’ll stop programming, i’m thinking by cob thursday, and spend next weekend producing some draft writeup of what i did so that…
i’ve been building all these html form-based user interfaces for my master’s project, and i’ve been using radio buttons for data entry, except they’re so small that they end up violating Fitts’ Law in a major way. usually you can…
for the non-sql-acquainted: there’s nothing to see here, move along, move along… this is an actual query (hand-generated) from my financial-database-cum-master’s-project: SELECT o.obligation_id, o.project_year_id, o.obligation_amount, o2.obligation_amount as allocable_amount, o.obligation_modification_number, o.obligation_notes, f.fund_id, f.objective_id, ft.fund_type_code, ft.fund_type_name, obj.objective_code, obj.objective_name, r.region_code, r.region_name, e.earmark_code, e.earmark_name,…
by the fact that my wireless access point (Linksys BEFW11S4v2) keeps dropping it’s signal, requiring me to *frequently* get up and unplug it and replug it. i’ve called tech support, i’ve reflashed the firmware (same version), i’ve changed the channel…
why can’t i start the automatic numbering for a caption (figure 1, figure 2) at an arbitrary number i decide? why can’t i set the first page of my document to have a different top margin that all the rest…
i ended up spending all day today on the darn thing (33 hours straight? except for my 8am class and that 10am staff meeting and lunch with jane at pepper’s). there are some good parts and there are some rough…
some discussion of this came up after a question about trusted computing/palladium following cory’s talk about the eff. he described having to lie to his dumb bank to convince them that his browser of choice (ostensibly mozilla, safari, or opera)…
infographic: most states actively prohibit recognition of same-sex marriage #
katie’s tough and long exhausting weekend #
hella yeah new paltz! Jason West, the mayor of New Paltz, New York was charged yesterday with 19 criminal counts for performing weddings for gay couples #
BRILLIANT!!! A Brief History of Marriage in America (thanks Webb!) #
journalistic integrity? does this mugshot communicate impartiality to you? #
frightening. iPod Used In Domestic Homicide #
hmm, curious trailer: The United States of Leland #
haha, who’s down with G-O-D? #
holy crap, mountain unicycling? #
whoa NASA developed a computer program that comes close to reading thoughts not yet spoken, by analyzing nerve commands to the throat #
oh yeah, swiss army knife with usb memory key #
World InfoZone benefits from public domain photos (photo I took, third down on the left) #
oh my god, this is crazy, the Knee Defender? #
chapel hill proposing that NC repeal discriminatory defense of marriage act (DOMA) #
there i am belatedly celebrating st patrick’s day at patrick’s #
dear me, i’ve actually been using 100% of my brain all along #
so weird, so subtle. i want to go see this again #
vote bush out of office. this makes me sick #
marriage proposal and acceptance by blog #
more on Chapel Hill Town Council member Mark Kleinschmidt working to repeal North Carolina’s DOMA law #
daaaammmnnnn! if condy rice had just “done her job…” richard clarke’s on a rampage. #
whoa, magnetoids (thank goodness there are videos) #
FutureMe.org: something jason and i thought up some time ago #
children’s book “locked up” in wilmington due to homosexual themes (what if we did the same to every children’s book with heterosexual themes? #
new google interface makes me sad is the search box smaller? i feel so constrained. #
this must be how matt damon feels when he approaches a blank sheet of paper #
made aware of something new: the gray code #
notes found in dupont circle starbucks detail bush administration plan for dealing with clarke plus directions to rumsfeld’s house!!! #
here they are… the pentagon papers #
