I’d love to write more on this article, but I’m trying to finish another long post. All I will say is…the government should stay out of this. If a state government decides a faith-based prison program is the way to go for prisoner therapy, and they can prove their citizens are ok with idea (via […]

Posted on July 24th, 2003 by admin
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I picked up a new bike last night, thanks to my friends Steven and Trina. It’s an old Specialized Allez frame, tricked out as singlespeed. It’s not a fixie, but thanks to the horizontal dropouts and track chain, I just need a rear wheel with a track hub and I’m set. Other nice features: full […]

Posted on July 24th, 2003 by admin
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Posted on July 23rd, 2003 by admin
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The World Rally Championship heads to Germany this weekend for the first proper tarmac rally of the year. This is a big event. First, Skoda is debuting the new Fabia WRC. While the team admits they are a bit ahead of schedule to release the car, they also feel it’s better to treat this rally […]

Posted on July 23rd, 2003 by admin
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This just showed up in my inbox. CGI.pm is probably the most used module for Perl web programming. Even if a patch is released, there are probably a lot of sites out there that won’t upgrade. While the world won’t end, it still could be a pain in the butt for a lot of people.

Posted on July 21st, 2003 by admin
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Lance Armstrong has finally decided to take control of the Tour de France with a fine stage win on the slopes of Luz-Ardiden. Despite a crash and a mechanical issue, Armstrong pulled away from the other favorites on the stage’s last climb and has now extended his narrow lead. Interesting side note: we got to […]

Posted on July 21st, 2003 by admin
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We took our climbing this weekend with the boy — to Coopers Rock (a couple of photos on the home page). It was good time, though we were only there for a few hours (since we left at 1pm). Seb seem to have a good time, taking all the nature in, so that’s a positive […]

Posted on July 21st, 2003 by admin
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Larry Wall‘s 7th annual State of the Onion address is up on the O’Reilly site. These are always entertaining…Larry is a really bright guy (he created the first version of Perl by himself) and he knows a lot about a lot of things.

Posted on July 17th, 2003 by admin
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Lately, the project at work has been revolving around an application search engine. We’re storing data in a database, and documents uploaded by users, and one of the specs requires search functionality to quickly parse both datasets and return the results. We’re using the Jakarta Lucene search framework as the foundation. Basically, Lucene is a […]

Posted on July 17th, 2003 by admin
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markko martin fans estonian badass My dreams of being a well known WRC writer may come true yet….

Posted on July 16th, 2003 by admin
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