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Archive: November, 2001

November 4, 2001

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Funniest sight I ever seen. Fourteen security patches and a tamborine.

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November 4, 2001

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Dot com challenged individuals of the world, rejoice! Believe it or don’t, my Available Domain Name of the Week resource has been pumping a genuinely useless bit of fluff into the Google-rarified ether on a regular basis for two full years. There’s nothing quite as intensely satisfying as celebrating 104 straight weeks of providing a … More

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November 4, 2001

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Looking for a relational database to run under Mac OS X? Apple has just published an article on the very topic of open source databases as part of its increasingly serviceable internet developer site. Timely, what? And speaking of operating systems ending with the letter X, the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines have just been buffed … More

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November 3, 2001

Compunabula.

Well, color me published. I’ve just had my very first word added to the spiffy pseudodictionary. And as those who know me can well attest, it’s a word that is quite dear to my heart. Piles of old crap you say? Pish, posh… it’s compunabula, darling.

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November 2, 2001

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Ok, that outage was my fault. Sorry.

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November 1, 2001

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Presumptuously flawed vision statements deconstructed while u wait. With your congenial host, Dean Allen.

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November 1, 2001

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Put your post graduate skills to work and help America’s favorite acronym-addled space agency name their newest orbiting infrared observatory due for launch next summer. You could probably sneeze onto a piece of looseleaf and do better than Space Infrared Telescope Facility, so this should be a no brainer. While you at it, why not … More

This item was posted by Grant Hutchinson.