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This article on a recent google update reminded me of an idea.
It is a variant on one-time pad encryption. Basically you could use some subset of the results of a google
search as your pad. Not being the encryption buff that I am I just leave it at this: You’re public key would […]

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So I’m at the bookstore and I’m IMing a friend about a digital photography book.
So he sends me the title, author, and ISBN. I show that to the guy working and viola, I have the book. Splendid.

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A good friend invited me to see the Concorde today at the Museum of Flight. It was pretty cool, but very quick. We spent an hour in line to see about 10min. worth of plane. They had the back half closed off, as with the cockpit (naturally).
One thing that was […]

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The Gravity and Chaos Club at my alma mater, Western Washington University have done something cool. They dropped 4000+ balls through Bond Hall. They took pictures. They took videos. Go check them out.
I really enjoy this kind of thing. Clubs that is. Back during my tenure, I was a […]

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So we lost power (again) a couple nights ago, so I woke up yesterday morning to one machine powered down, and another up. (I have UPS).
I thought that was odd, so I powered up and went along my way, thinking I’d look into it when I got home. Well the machine that […]

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What a surprise to wake to. Given the past few years, this seems rather early in the year for it. It will be interesting to see what this winter brings

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More python grit here.
I recently came across this in my reading
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2
Type “help”, “copyright”, “credits” or “license” for more information.
>>> class Spam:
… def doit(self, message):
… print message
…
>>> o = Spam()
>>> […]

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And here I thought Firebird was supposed to be small, tight, and compact…. I left the machine for a meeting and came back….

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What do you get with a healthy dose of religion, a bunch of legos, and an unlimited amount of spare time?
The Brick Testament

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So the past couple of days have been quite interesting.
On monday, some site or another that one of us went to decided to start downloading/installing tons of apps. mySearch toolbar, Lycos search agent, some coupon thing, a clock sync program and a weather app.
What is odd is that we don’t (really we don’t) go […]

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