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Tired
I didn’t get enough sleep last night. (Note to self: try to avoid sounding like the person at work who blames all of his mistakes on lack of sleep and excessive devotion to the cause.) Jules, Geoff and I went … Continue reading
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SANE 2004
After a weekend spent showing Geoff around Amsterdam, we’re at SANE 2004 for the next 5 days. We’re currently in the Black Hats tutorial, which rather amusingly started with a number of examples of how you can use Google to … Continue reading
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Polly Paulusma
Sarah and I went to see The Divine Comedy play at Café du Nord in San Francisco last night. An unexpected pleasure turned out to be the support act, a woman by the name of Polly Paulsma. This 28 year … Continue reading
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Comment spam
I’m getting really tired of people using the ability to post comments to blog entries for their own nefarious purposes, namely to drop in links to the latest site for cheap Viagra and penis enlargement technology. Presumably, they’re hoping that … Continue reading
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Photos of the Faroe Islands and Iceland
As fun as a holiday is while you’re actually on it, it’s extremely tedious to get back home and begin the seemingly endless process of comparing, selecting, sorting, rotating and captioning photos. Nevertheless, we’ve done the dirty deed and our … Continue reading
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