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Monthly Archives: February 2008

in which our hero uses his blog for bookmarks

9 February 2008

I came across two helpful election web sites today.
First, I had a hell of a time figuring out when polls closed on Super Tuesday before the date. Now it’s all over Google, but I couldn’t find out when the polls closed today on “Significant Saturday” or whatever stupid name they’re giving it. I [...]

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all cnn talks about is the number of states won

6 February 2008

An interesting set of statistics I hadn’t yet seen today, from the Time Swampland blog, about the overall popular vote:
TOTAL VOTES CAST
Clinton: 50.2% (7,347,971)
Obama: 49.8% (7,294,851)

Clinton won the popular vote by only 0.4% — roughly 50,000 votes out of 14.6 million cast.
It also has a comparison of “get out the vote” numbers between [...]

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我已经厌倦了这

3 February 2008

Dear Gmail,
I cannot read Chinese. I have never been able to read Chinese. I probably will never be able to read Chinese.
Every single mail I have ever received in Chinese I have marked as spam. All of them.
Why can’t you understand I don’t read Chinese? I would like you to automatically [...]

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descended from wolves

3 February 2008

Beagle 0.3.3 is out. It’s mostly bug fixes, but includes some new features. A new Qt GUI for settings, a man page tile in the search UI, index stats from the search UI, and better logging system prevents filling your hard disk if something goes wrong. Grab it as usual from the [...]

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this gives me an opportunity to test out my amazon affiliate links

2 February 2008

Contrary to popular belief, not all code at ITA Software is in Lisp. So far all of my work has been in Python. And while Python has been my “quick and dirty” language of choice for many years now, it’s nice to be hacking in Python again for “real” code. The first [...]

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