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No Free Lunch

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

There’s no such thing as a free lunch.
You know, when I first started using the Internet, pretty much everything was free.  Once you got used to searching, you could find just about anything on the ‘net, all the way up to and including source code for all kinds of things.  So, in that spirit, I [...]

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Bit Rot

Thursday, August 27, 2009

By all rights, this blog should be dead.
Frankly, the entire website is so old and out of date and willfully not maintained that I’m surprised there’s any traffic to it.  But, there is.  And with any large volume of people, there are always those who take advantage and push free resources beyond their intended use.  [...]

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Happy Birthday…Nevermind.

Friday, February 20, 2009

Today is the birthday of Kurt Cobain.
The singer-songwriter who essentially founded the “grunge” music movement, was born in Hoquiam, Washington on this day in 1967. He started from humble beginnings, working a job as a school janitor, but he started playing in local rock bands. He spent most of this time living at various friends’ [...]

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Happy Birthday, Kurt

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Today is the birthday of Kurt Cobain.
The singer-songwriter who essentially founded the “grunge” music movement, was born in Hoquiam, Washington on this day in 1967. He started from humble beginings, working a job as a school janitor, but he started playing in local rock bands. He spent most of this time living at various friends’ [...]

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One Publishers and Two Writer’s Birthdays

Friday, September 21, 2007

According to Writer’s Almanac we have three birthdays to celebrate today.
First, there’s novelist Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, who was born in Bromley, England in1866. According to the note I got from Writer’s Almanac, Wells had a job writing biology textbooks until he developed a respiratory illness in his late 20s. Since he thought he didn’t [...]

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ConLang Script Usage Issues

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Well, as several of you have noticed, there seem to be some on-going issues with the conlang scripts.  After getting them working again post ISP move, their usage has spiked to a level that the new ISP/WebHost can’t seem to handle.  So, I’m working on it.
Unfortunately, I’m also a cancer patient who’s got to go [...]

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Return of the “Fun” Links

Friday, April 20, 2007

Okay, so my idea of fun may be changing a bit.
I’ve noticed a theme in my cancer caregivers’ rhetoric lately: clean. Get clean, stay clean, avoid things that aren’t clean. Wash your hands, gargle with their special solution to keep the mouth sores away, don’t eat raw foods that might have bacteria on them. This [...]

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How Many Points For “Birthday”?

Friday, April 13, 2007

Today is the birthday of Alfred M. Butts, the man who invented the game Scrabble.
Butts was born on this day in 1899, in Poughkeepsie, New York. He trademarked the game in 1949, but his game didn’t sell very well. Only a few thousand copies of the game were sold, until 1950s when the president of [...]

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