My list for 2009

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I don’t see the point of having a single new year ‘resolution’. I’d rather list a bunch of stuff that I’d like to accomplish both professionally and personally .. so here’s my list broken down as such:
Professional:

C++ is here to stay, its not going to go away, I may as well get used to using [...]

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Web pages as graphs

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Have you ever wanted to get a great, easy to read visual of any HTML document? This is the tool for you.  The applet will analyze the semantics of any HTML/XHTML document and ‘come to life’ as it represents the document’s structure as a graph. The graph starts out as a star burst and quickly [...]

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Time for more hobbies

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For the longest time, my favorite hobby has been to find some interesting program and pick it apart, or write one of my own. I’m probably one of the few GNU/Linux users who have actually obtained the source code for the core utilities and modified them to suit my needs. I’ve also hacked my kernel [...]

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Cisco Sued By The Free Software Foundation

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I don’t think that anyone ever dreamed of the Free Software Foundation needing to enforce its license and copyright in a court of law, however, this unlikely event has happened. The FSF is suing Cisco Systems for violating version 2 of the GNU General Public License and Lesser GPL. You can read the complaint here [...]

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A little time off, thanks to bad behavior

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This blog receives approximately 10,000 SPAM comments each month. Akismet’s ‘false positive’ rate is quite low, however I like to make sure that nothing in the queue is legit before nuking it. After this blog turned one year old, that task became insurmountable.
Mostly, I thank Google for this pestilence. If a page has many incoming [...]

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