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If the world could vote
Just ran across this interesting site. If the world could vote. Basically, a very large scale poll on the US Presidential Election.
Lawrewnce Lessig on Sarah Palin's experience
Someone asked me why Sarah Palin scared me. Here's why. Quoting from the 'About' section of this clip: In response to Palin's suggestion that her experience was somehow normal, an exhaustive (and exhausting, to me and you!) of Governor Palin's...
Agile passes SDLC in job posting mentions
Was playing with the Indeed job search engine (no I am not looking for a job, all you headhunters) and ran this little search/graph. Cool. SDLC, agile Job Trends SDLC jobs - agile jobs
Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes - NYTimes.com
Another article painting a not-so-nice picture of the Republican VP candidate. Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes - NYTimes.com
Crosscut Seattle - About Sarah Palin: an e-mail from Wasilla
A short letter from someone who has known Sarah Palin for a long time. Crosscut Seattle - About Sarah Palin: an e-mail from Wasilla I don't understand why people are excited about her as a VP candidate. She scares the heck out of me.
Using del.icio.us on your iPhone or iPod touch
My lovely wife got me an iPod touch for my birthday, and I really like it. Since it has WiFi and the safari browser, its like having a tiny computer. I have been using it to check email (both through the gmail web page and the IMAP client that comes wi...
Economic advice
I was reading a set of questions and answers with Robert Riech, and really liked this one: Q: What should the U.S. government change in its current fiscal policies in order to lead by example?A: The federal budget should be divided between past obligat...
Future Beachfront property
Happened to run across this site - firetree flood maps in which a guy has mashed up elevation data from NASA with Google maps, and can show (very roughly) what would be flooded if the oceans rose by differing amounts. The link above shows Houston (an a...
How to explicitly fail a FIT test from a DoFixture
Back when I was at DataCert, my buddy Jeff Palermo wrote a blog post on this topic. Since then, I have switched languages from C# to Java, so here is the same thing, translated to Java. import fit.Fixture; import fit.Parse; import fitlibrary.DoFixture...
Continuous Integration and Testing Conference coming to Texas
The Continuous Integration and Testing Conference is coming to Texas! The folks doing this conference (Paul Julius of Thoughtworks and Jeffrey Frederick of Agitar) have done 2 of these before, and all the reports I have heard have been good. I just reg...

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Re: Using del.icio.us on your iPhone or iPod touch
AWESOME!!! Until I got this working I was thinking my iPod Touch web browsing was basically dead in the water. HUGE THANKS FOR THIS POST :-)
Re: Installing Subversion Server on Windows
Take a look to VisualSVN Server (http://www.visualsv...
Re: even more FitNesse GoodNesse
Hi, I am trying to integrate fitnesse into cruise control and I am stuck on one point. I cannot get testrunner to use the config file specified with the !path in the wiki page. At the moment I have to use a testRunner.exe.confi...
Re: Installing Subversion Server on Windows
With regard to installing subversion as a service under Windows - the latest versions of the subversion svnserve daemon can run as a service, so the wrapper I referred to in part 3 is no longer necessary. See this link for details on how to make it wor...
Re: Installing Subversion Server on Windows
How do you make subversion run as a service? Your link is in part 3 dead. Ther rest was very helpful :) Cheers

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Fluid - Free Site Specific Browser for Mac OS X Leopard
Like Prism is to Firefox. Create standalone webapps on the Mac
PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
Following the great Perl Cookbook (by Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington, published by O'Reilly; you can freely browse an excerpt of the book here) which presents a suite of common programming problems solved in the Perl language, this project aims to implement the solutions in other programming languages. If successful, this project may become a primary resource for quick, handy and free reference to solve most common programming problems using various programming languages, and for comparison on ease-of-use and power/efficiency of these languages. The material, considered as some Documentation, is wholly released under the Gnu Free Documentation License, except the Perl part, which is copyrighted by O'Reilly & Associates yet freely available.
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Manifold System - The Ultimate GIS and Mapping Package!
Looks like a really cool package for doing GIS stuff with databases and Google Earth

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