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The newsweek "saga"

posted May 27th, 2005 @ 07:19:59

- tags: politik

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Newsweek has been in the news a lot lately for an article they published by Michael Isikoff about Qu'ran and religious abuse at Gitmo and Bagram. This was published on the 9th, and on the 12th there were riots in Afghanistan. White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan assailed the article, saying:

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Graduation 05

posted May 26th, 2005 @ 03:17:57

- tags: web design , life

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A bunch of people I know are going to be graduating tomorrow, so congratulations and good luck to all of them. This includes Mike "Super Jew" Krupnic, Jeremy "Jerumu" Mikola and Wei Alan "Just Got Married" Tsang. Two of these guys have jobs so good luck with that, and Krupnic you might want to try searching for work in the pacific north west since you've already tried in every other region!

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KDE 3.4

posted May 21st, 2005 @ 05:37:07

- tags: kde

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This is going to be part review and part open letter to KDE develpers. The install I evaluate is somewhat divergent from defaults, and indeed some of what I complain or congratulate on being fixed might be the result of the vestiges of old preferences.

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Fluxbox & mouse wheel semantics

posted May 5th, 2005 @ 23:55:23

- tags: general tech , linux , development

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For those of you possibly uninterested, this is going to almost entirely dwell on esoteric computer usability discussion.

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Albacore

posted May 1st, 2005 @ 01:44:32

- tags: life , politik , music

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This past Thursday; the 28th of April 2005; I went to see a show at the Knitting Factory. The effects of listening to music can sometimes take a while to sink in, and sometimes it takes something else to make you realize why what you've just listened to was incredible. Any band with a keyboard and a disco beat can make you dance; it takes a special band to make you smile. Thank's Palomar.

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