Monthly Archives: February 2010
Good Evening, Cairo
Well, we’ve made it as far as Cairo, which isn’t saying much, of course, but we are at least here in one piece. Finally, we set foot in Africa (you can’t really count the Canary Islands last year, can you?) … Continue reading
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Pyramid Scheme
Those passports Eloïse and I picked up the other day weren’t just for the sake of having current documentation, of course. Sarah has been busy planning our latest trip. We leave tomorrow afternoon for three weeks in Egypt. This journey … Continue reading
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The Web Is A Mess
Back when Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, it all seemed so simple. Gopher, a means of sequentially browsing through hierarchically structured, text-based information, would be replaced by a technology that offered random access to information, information that need … Continue reading
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Ruby/AWS 0.8.0 Released
It’s been a while since a new version of Ruby/AWS was released. In fact, it’s been more than eight months since version 0.7.0 first saw the light of day. I often don’t even mention new releases here, because they’re of … Continue reading
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Balkenende IV Falls
Our country is once again without a government. After a 15 hour crisis meeting to shore up the ramshackle remains of a coalition at the end of its collective tether, the cabinet fell at about 04:00 in the night of … Continue reading
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