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<title>Frosted Forest</title>
<description> Click image for an enlargement. Yesterday, in Lignières, along the route cantonale....</description>
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<title>Reading List: The Black Swan</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Taleb, Nassim Nicholas. The Black Swan. New York: Random House, 2007. ISBN&nbsp;978-1-4000-6351-2. If you are interested in financial markets, investing, the philosophy of science, modelling of socioeconomic systems, theories of history and historicism, or the r&ocirc;le of randomness and...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:25:54 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Home Cinema, 1930-Style</title>
<description>This week&apos;s new pages for the 1930 Allied Radio Catalogue bring the total pages posted up to 79, and include this home cinema system which was, I dare say, a tad before its time and launched under particularly inauspicious economic...</description>
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<category>Gizmos</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:05:44 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>It&apos;s International Write Like a Moron Day!</title>
<description>While I was hoping to write something in commemoration of International Write Like a Moron Day, I humbly concede my incapacity to scale such heights as those reached by this sign, displayed in a rally in New York City on...</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:22:25 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The Forgotten  Man</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man. New York: Harper Perennial, [2007] 2008. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-06-093642-6. The conventional narrative of the Great Depression and New Deal is well-defined, and generations have been taught the story of how financial hysteria and lack of regulation...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Installing the Perl Image::Magick module on CentOS 5.2</title>
<description><![CDATA[As part of migrating the Fourmilab server farm to CentOS&nbsp;5.2, I am also updating the Movable Type installation used to maintain this chronicle from version 3.34 to the current 4.23 release. Movable Type uses the Image Magick package, through its...]]></description>
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<category>Computing</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:01:14 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Shadow Server Enters the 21st Century</title>
<description>It&apos;s funny how things have a way of coming around. When I originally implemented Shadow Server more than eleven years ago (it was originally posted in August 1997), some people thought it perfectly absurd to use a Perl-based CGI application...</description>
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<category>Computing</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:35:54 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Safetyland: Little Red Concept Vehicle</title>
<description><![CDATA[ For a century or more, the little red wagon beneath the Christmas tree has widened the eyes of children and figured in their play throughout childhood. But the wagon is so antiquated&mdash;where are the safety and convenience features parents...]]></description>
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<category>Humour</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:42:36 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Come Nineveh, Come Tyre</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Drury, Allen. Come Nineveh, Come Tyre. New York: Avon, 1973. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-380-00126-2. This novel is one of the two alternative conclusions the author wrote for the series which began with his Pulitzer Prize winning Advise and Consent. As the series...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:55:13 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Gnome-o-gram: Are the U.S. bankrupt?</title>
<description>This article argues that that the United States are bankrupt because obligations of the Federal government now exceed the collective net worth of all of the citizens of that profligate polity. Well, maybe, but it depends upon how you crunch...</description>
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<category>Investing</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:12:07 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Not so great moments in address processing</title>
<description><![CDATA[With the ongoing collapse of financial institutions in the United States, some folks have consoled themselves by saying, &ldquo;Well, granted the idiots on the trading side have lost a few terabucks, but at least our transaction processing, internal controls, and...]]></description>
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<category>Humour</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:10:10 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Ephemera: Fourmilab Twitter Feed Available</title>
<description>Never one to avoid jumping on a faddish bandwagon after it&apos;s already up to speed, Fourmilab now has a Twitter feed available. If you prefer to follow such things with a feed reader, here&apos;s the RSS feed URL. I&apos;m not...</description>
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<category>Administration</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:56:47 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: Patriots</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Rawles, James Wesley. Patriots. Philadelphia: Clearwater Press, 2006. ISBN&nbsp;978-1-4257-3407-7. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, design a building, conn a ship, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:49:31 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Reading List: The People Trap and Mindswap</title>
<description><![CDATA[ Sheckley, Robert. The People Trap and Mindswap. New York: Ace Books, [1952&ndash;1966, 1968] 1981. ISBN&nbsp;978-0-441-65874-9. This &ldquo;Ace Double&rdquo; (albeit not in the classic dos-&agrave;-dos format, but simply concatenated) contains a collection of mostly unrelated short stories by Robert Sheckley,...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:07:32 +0100</pubDate>
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<title>Gnome-o-gram: Mortgage Bailout, Roman Style</title>
<description><![CDATA[There is but scant innovation in human folly. Every generation convinces itself that it's living in a &ldquo;new era&rdquo;, where &ldquo;all the rules have changed&rdquo;, and consequently stumbles into the same potholes which swallowed countless ancestors. Knowing some history (rare...]]></description>
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<category>Investing</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:50:44 +0100</pubDate>
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