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Monthly Archives: August 2003

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30 August 2003

OSU plays Washington tonight… groan.
For about a month, my laptop has been sick. I got a third-party service plan on the laptop, because it was cheaper and better than AppleCare. I finally got sick of the display problems and lockups, so I called them. The tech managed to waste [...]

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or run away to the foreign legion

17 August 2003

Whee.
Radiohead show on Wednesday. Fucking awesome. I think it might have been the best show I’ve ever been to. Check it out at ease.
A couple of corrections regarding my previous California recall debacle: 900,000 people must sign the initial recall ballot, out of about 21.5 million registered voters, which [...]

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This is why we can’t have nice things

6 August 2003

Whoever came up with the California recall election rules was a complete moron. A total idiot.
One. Only five percent of the population has to sign a petition to cause a recall election.
Two. The state estimates that the cost of a recall election will be $35 million, which is not at [...]

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I liked you better before you sold out

4 August 2003

Today it was announced that Ximian was sold to Novell. Suffice it to say, nobody got any real work done. I rigged up the old scrolly sign — which once said how many times Helix GNOME Preview 1 had been downloaded — to print out the current stock price of Novell stock [...]

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