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Spain’s Drug Abuse

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

This is really a test post, to see if my RSS feed comes back properly, but I thought these charts were interesting. Is it really true that the Spanish are at the forefront of abusing every drug except ecstasy?

And the Winner is…

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004

Tonight while driving my daughter home from her preschool:
Daughter: Daddy, we voted today in class today!Dad: Really? About what?Daughter: About bears!Dad: Who won?Daughter: Me!
Nice…

The trouble with bcc

Tuesday, April 20th, 2004

Every couple of months, mayhem erupts on one of the internal mailing lists regarding the use of blind carbon copy (bcc) in e-mails. The process begins like this:

A long thread with arguable relevance to the majority of list participants begins
Someone decides that the discussion is not interesting, and replies to the message with the original […]

Translating Computer Jargon

Wednesday, March 10th, 2004

Roy Osherove makes some good points about computing
with people who don’t speak English. This seems to be the same situation
when giving computer presentations to audiences in China. I’ve only ever
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A little too meta

Friday, February 27th, 2004

This is just too much. IBM running a series on “how to describe your open source project using XML“. One imagines testimonials; “I was cretaing a new open-source project every hour, and XML really helped me to organize my efforts”; or “I install 7 new open-source projects per day, and being able to […]