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		<title>Commodore Nostalgia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via Slashdot, Programming Books, part 3: Programming the Commodore 64
Prologue about the book itself is worth reading, but the following really resonated for me:
Now I know that there is already plenty of old-fart nostalgia on this blog — a lot of people have interpreted Whatever happened to programming? as a yearning for the days when [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/562</link>
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		<title>&#8220;B&#8217;Bye&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago, links this article went round the office as an example of how bad Vista was, and how not to design software.  It didn&#8217;t sit well with me.
Anyway, I ran into it today and re-read it, and this particular point stood out:
So now we&#8217;ve got exactly one log off button [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/558</link>
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		<title>Rip Torn: Bank Robber???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actor Rip Torn charged with breaking into Conn. bank while drunk and carrying a loaded gun
SALISBURY, Conn. (AP) — Actor Elmore &#8220;Rip&#8221; Torn has been charged with breaking into a Connecticut bank and carrying a loaded handgun while intoxicated.
State police say the 78-year-old Salisbury resident was arrested Friday night after police found him inside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cat vs. Bear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couldn&#8217;t figure out how to embed this, sorry.
Cat vs. Bear
Cat wins. Too funny!  
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		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/553</link>
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		<title>A letter I sent to the Chancellor of UCSC and the Chief of Campus Police.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent an hour stuck in UCSC local traffic trying to get to class, only to be forced to turn around by (expetive deleted) protesters while a campus PD officer stood and did nothing. Then spend another half hour stuck in traffic getting away from campus.

I just wrote out a &#8220;nice nastygram&#8221; (bit of any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/548</link>
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		<title>Server upgrade</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I doubt many folks are still reading it, as I know my handful of old friends who read regularly are all on Facebook now and seeing my updates there.  Nevertheless, my file/web server has been down for a week or two and is only back up.  It&#8217;s pretty much been totally replaced, hardware-wise.
Specs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/543</link>
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		<title>Musing on English classes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A New Assignment: Pick Books You Like
JONESBORO, Ga. — For years Lorrie McNeill loved teaching “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Harper Lee classic that many Americans regard as a literary rite of passage.
But last fall, for the first time in 15 years, Ms. McNeill, 42, did not assign “Mockingbird” — or any novel. Instead she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/538</link>
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		<title>I resemble that remark&#8230;</title>
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I (heart) XKCD, but this one made me really sad at the same time getting a laugh.  &#8220;The least interesting man in the world,&#8221; indeed.
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		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/534</link>
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		<title>Reno/Tahoe photos, June 2009</title>
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Reno/Tahoe, June 2009


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		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/524</link>
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		<title>Ducks, they&#8217;re not just for Foster City</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late in getting the pictures up, but back around the end of May some ducks came to visit on my lawn, came by for a day or two, then disappeared.  Ah well.  One of the few things I miss about the old apartment complex is the ducks and their occasional noise.


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		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/522</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve GOT to visit Estonia&#8230;</title>
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Kidding, although it does sound like an interesting place to visit for other reasons than the translation of &#8220;twelve months.&#8221;
In other news, I&#8217;ve been super-lax about updating this (even ignoring the 3+ weeks when there was no server running at all.)  We&#8217;re finally sorta-kinda moved in.  Some house-related posts coming up one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cubiclehermit.com/archives/520</link>
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		<title>WTF? (&#8220;What the frak?&#8221;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw the final episode.  Interesting.  A few really cool moments&#8230; although the big setpiece battle felt a little rushed, and a case, like Return of the King (something already mentioned on DBA) of the denoument being broken up into too many pieces.  I didn&#8217;t mind for RoTK, given the source material and [...]]]></description>
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