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More replies to myself ...
2012-05-05: One of my favorite authors is Daniel Pinkwater, recently mentioned in a news story on the WSJ blog commenting about a passage of his that showed up on a middle school standardized test of reading comprehension.
Replies to Myself
2012-05-01: I work in a financial services firm with a fearsome firewall dedicated to keeping nasty internet creatures out of the corporate environment. It is very effective, but has the side effect of making any cloud-based productivity tools (DropBox, EverNote, delicio.us, etc.) inaccessible. So if I come across anything good on the Web, I've taken to sending myself email with the link to keep track. I am my own most diligent correspondent, although I'm not good about follow-up, so my mailbox is occasionally filled with unread stuff from myself. Pathetic. Here is where I catch up:
Yet another redesign ...
2011-11-20: Not that I have anything better to do, but while organizing sketches and scripts, I had yet another great idea for the ideal blog design. I'm absolutely certain that this will be the last. Right.
MySQL ... where am I?
2010-10-28: MySQL support tools don't always play nice. Not that they don't mean to, but sometimes they get confused.
Perl/MySQL-hostile OSX
2010-10-26: Beautifully designed but hacker-hostile ... OSX can make life difficult for Perl programmers trying to use MySQL.
"Attempt to free unreferenced scalar ..."
2010-10-24: A Perl error that makes perfect sense after you tear your hair out figuring out what it is trying to say.

Recent Links

[2012-05-09]

A talk from John Fetzer of the Fetzer vineyards. A good story about a self-governed approach to learning and work. This was one of the Do Lectures, which is worth adding to your Google Reader or other RSS monitor. [... more]