The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Tuesday, 31 May 2005Becky and I went to see The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (IMDb Entry) yesterday, even though we had to drive all the way to Roanoke in order to do so. It has been many, many years since I read the book, and almost as many since Becky read it, so I can’t speak to [...]
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Democratic Reform in Egypt
Monday, 23 May 2005For those of you who have not heard, there is a significant probability that Becky and I will be spending about seven weeks in Egypt this Fall. Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering is trying to establish a graduate program in the region. The academic program and the students would be all ours, though the program [...]
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Robust Peacekeeping
Monday, 23 May 2005In principle, anyway, I think that this notion of robust peacekeeping is a very good idea, which could have siginficant utility in many parts of the world.
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Clay Shirky: Ontology is Overated
Monday, 16 May 2005Clay Shirky has written about categories, links, and tags in an article called Ontology is Overrated. It’s a nice article. I encourage you to read it. In my view, part of the article near the conclusion could actually be given a theological spin: It comes down ultimately to a question of philosophy. Does the world [...]
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Organizing Conundrum
Sunday, 15 May 2005I’ve been trying to organize my home office. And I’m currently pondering a problem to which I have no good solution. Hence, I call upon you, LazyWeb. I have an enormous quantity of software CDs, and I don’t really know how to organize them. Music CDs are basically easy to organize due to the fact [...]
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Mac OS X Tiger (10.4)
Monday, 2 May 2005This article provides an amazingly technical, in depth, and downright geeky review of the technologies at the heart of the latest version of Apple’s Macintosh OS X operating system. I soaked it all up since I just ordered 3 iBooks for my lab. [via NowThis] We’re going to be playing around with GNU Radio – [...]
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