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No Smoke Without Fire
A family member sent me this article, which once again raises the spectre of conscription in the US. The American government once again claims that no such move is being considered and that this simply constitutes a routine recruitment drive … Continue reading
On The Money
Ruby/Finance is finally available for public consumption. I released version 0.1.0 yesterday evening to a deafening roar of silence. Currently, it handles basic Yahoo Finance stuff, such as currency conversions and stock data retrieval from the American, Australian, Asian and … Continue reading
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Take A Hike
We made another conscious effort to get out into nature on at least one day this weekend. We had planned to head up to Point Reyes, but that seemed like altogether too much effort on the day, so we drove … Continue reading
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The Bug Returns
I’ve been farting around, looking for another programming project to sink some time into. I haven’t felt like doing any programming for a couple of months now, and I needed something to get my teeth into enough that it would … Continue reading
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Big Spender
I’ve thus far neglected to mention that Sarah recently bought a Canon S500 5 megapixel point-and-shoot camera. We found that we weren’t taking our big camera with us when we knew in advance that it would be cumbersome to have. … Continue reading
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