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Bling the Children Back Home
Bling the Children Back Home @ Georgia Theater, originally uploaded by Ezra F. for AthFest 2007 Friday night. This was a fun band to which to listen and watch. http://myspace.com/blingthechildrenbackhome
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Open Letter RE: Bug Fixes
Dear computer software companies, Its a waste of my time and yours to bring to your attention a bug in your code of which you are already aware. Several of you are good about disclosure. Several of you really annoy me. You know who you are. Ezra
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Your Mind on Some Platters
What’s in a Laptop? Court Ponders Legality of Border Searches: “Electronic storage devices function as an extension of our own memory,” Judge Dean Pregerson wrote. “They are capable of storing our thoughts, ranging from the most whimsical to the most profound. Therefore, government intrusions into the mind — specifically those that would cause fear or…
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RIP Yahoo! Photos
Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr You have until September to move all your photos. UPDATE 17-JUN-2007: I have imported 511 pictures at Yahoo! Photos to my Flickr account. The migration tool was kind enough to mark all of them as private. However, though untagged. 🙁 I’m working through them, updating…
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Happy Father’s Day
No matter the amount of contributions of nature or nurture, my father contributed significantly to who I am today. How to think and solve my way through problems was something he was always encouraging (or forcing) me to do. He gave me deep books to read. Hearing him tell me how proud he is of…
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False Positives
It’s often argued that the high false positive rate proves the system is poorly run or even useless. This is not necessarily the case. In running a system like this, we necessarily trade off false positives against false negatives. We can lower either kind of error, but doing so will increase the other kind. The…
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Consolidation
Everything is miscellaneous, right? Well, my categories in this blog were quite numerous and growing all the time with subcategories. They got to the point my desktop client, Deepest Sender, had more than a screen’s height of categories. The side bar required over a whole screen height on my 20″ monitor to display. Unmangeable…. So,…
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Open letter – VM
Dear whomever left me a voicemail of your typing, Ummmm… Thanks? Ez