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Monthly Archives: November 2004

recap

30 November 2004

A bunch of people have sent me emails asking what “doubly landlocked” means. It’s a country that is surrounded by landlocked countries. Stop emailing me about it.
Thanksgiving in Ohio with the family last week. Um, lets just say that I’ve had better ones. But on Friday I went with [...]

a1batr0$$

18 November 2004

I hate the Novell password policy so much. It’s a well-intentioned but fatally flawed policy that is self-evident as soon as one encounters it the first time, let alone the fifth. It inherently fosters some very insecure practices that would become very obvious had there been any user testing on it at all.
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fiasco ‘04

12 November 2004

Last weekend went to Utah and met up with Nat, Peach, Alex, Larry, and Toshok for some skiing and snowboarding.
Our cabin was… odd. It had beds for 15 people, but it only had three bedrooms. One bedroom had one bed, and the remainder were in the other two rooms, and those [...]

bummer

3 November 2004

Went to bed at 3:30 last night, woke up at 9:30 this morning. Felt tired and dejected all day. Not going to rant, but terribly disappointed that the executive and legislature are all a single party and that every gay marriage ban passed by overwhelming majorities. Oh well, it’s not the [...]

vote

2 November 2004

Go vote. You have some catching up to do… I’ve already voted three times.
From the Shaw Election Center, we’re ready to make our first prediction. Based on exit poll data and with 0% of the precincts reporting, we’re ready to call Massachusetts for Senator John F. Kerry, awarding its 12 electoral votes [...]