I seemingly spend a lot of time running web pages on my local file system through lynx for the textual information, and then cutting-and-pasting it …

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In a values in technology class we are reading The Ruination of the Tomato. The class discussion is lamenting the sorry state of the modern …

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I tend to keep most of my files on encrypted partitions. Fortunately, this is easy to do now that the crypto loop devices are integrated …

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A recent CNN article the entitled “Norwegian hacker cracks iTunes code” tells the the story of Jon Johansen’s latest effort, QTFairUse:

The new program …

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Tim Bray notes much discussion about taxonomies for organizing one’s blog entries, akin to those categories you see on the left of this blog …

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Peter Van Dijck has composed an interesting summary of the themes that arise in debates about the Semantic Web, including the recent discussion of Shirky …

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The way I think of Shannon’s information theoretic concept of entropy is as “uncertainty.” Or, in another approach, Shannon’s entropy — and there are …

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I’ve been eagerly waiting for the next release of Quanta and its WYSIWYG mode (called “Kafka”). I’m hoping it’ll be in KDE …

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One of the things I learned at the W3C, particularly when working on the various XML Canonicalization specifications, was that dealing with characters isn’t …

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I found this nice simple definition on Usenet that I like:

With a polynomial, it is the base number that varies. The exponent is given …

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