Blog Title Changed – NO CARRIER

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Since this blog turns two years old tomorrow, I thought I would do something different. Originally, I was going to re-do the theme, but that bore an alarming resemblence to work. Instead, I’ve switched the title of the blog. Echoreply -> NO CARRIER.  At least, this differentiates my blog from my main site / freelance [...]

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I miss programming

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For the better part of the last few weeks, I have been working mostly on “general IT” projects that mostly involve service configurations and managing subcontractors. I can’t help but miss my nice, warm and fuzzy type safe callbacks, irrational complaints from my compiler and colleagues from various open source projects. Maybe I’ll be able [...]

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FSF Helps launch Windows 7 – Adds better garbage collection

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Hot off the FSF press from Peter Brown [Executive Director]: Hi everyone, This Wednesday, August 26 at 11am, the Free Software Foundation will be launching its Windows7sins.org public awareness campaign, drawing attention to the threats posed by the adoption of Microsoft’s proprietary operating system. We have a launch event here in Boston on the Boston [...]

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And the package manager debate rages on

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If you ask any *NIX engineer what they love or hate the most about their operating system of choice, many will indicate the package manager. For those of you who don’t use a UNIX like operating system, the package manager is the program that lets you install other programs. A small group of developers (me [...]

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Homeless, from Chicago To Manila

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At various points in life, all of us are convinced that we have seen it all. A week and a half ago, I went to visit some friends at their office in Makati. While outside of the building smoking a cigarette, I came across the most unusual and extrodinary person that I have met in [...]

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Salmonella

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I have finally recovered from a really, really bad case of salmonella food poisioning. I can truthfully say, the experience was by far the worst experience of my life. I had lunch with my wife in what seemed to be a very nice Italian restaraunt. I had a steak with some kind of mushroom cream [...]

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