Scribd – Your moment of Zen

Posted by craig Published in Computers, Silly Stuff

(Yes, I know that saying “Your moment of zen” is a cliche phrase, so if that bothers you, then you have my permission to call this post “your moment of cliche”). Scribd, the lock-box troll-tollkeeper of otherwise freely available PDF files, requires you to have an account to download the PDF files that they’ve so [...]

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May

Palm – Abandon all ope ye who enter

Posted by craig Published in Computers

Slashdot | Palm Kills Community Before It Begins. This kind of bullshit community destruction is part of the reason I’m no longer carrying a Palm device. You can’t bring out a new device, and then decide to alienate your developers, unless you want to make an expensive paperweight that nobody will support. Silly move, Palm, [...]

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May

Robotic Rock Band

Posted by craig Published in Neat stuff

Watch Robotic Rock Band on CollegeHumor

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May

Why it's not good to be in the news

Posted by craig Published in News and notes, Strange

I don’t know if you remember the news story about a London boy, who became a father at age 12. Unfortunately, the story doesn’t end there. Oh no, Marge, sit down and let me tell ya; it gets better. Apparently, the boy, (whom the media has identified in the article, but out of courtesy, I [...]

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May

Due Today (A script for todo.sh)

Posted by craig Published in Computers, GTD, Productivity

Due Today is a simple script for todo.sh that will allow you to see what’s currently due, what’s over-due (in a pre-defined timeperiod), and what’s due for the next pre-defined days. It’s very much alpha code, but is tested. Files are located here: http://decafbad.net/files/due_today-0.1.tar.gz Let me know if you find this useful. Patches are always [...]

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May

Happy Anniversary, Sweetheart

Posted by craig Published in A day in the life

Happy Anniversary, sweetheart! It doesn’t feel like it’s been 6 years, since we got married. I can remember it almost as if it were yesterday. May we have 6! many more years together.

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May

Even better if it's true

Posted by craig Published in A day in the life, Silly Stuff

Goodday to you, I know you would be surprised to read from someone relatively unknown to you. My name is Ruth Alpern,wife of Bernard Madoff,Chief Executive of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC. I would like to share some highly personal information with you.For certain reasons,I also would like to keep some information for now [...]

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May

Penguicon: Beginning Pygame Programming presentation / code

Posted by craig Published in Computers, Games

I’ve created a Sourceforge project for my demo at Penguicon 7.0 for Penguicon. Here is a link to the project. And here is a link to the loggerhead bzr viewer of the code. Please feel free to use the project as a launching point for your own games. If you’re interested in carrying the project [...]

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May