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Archive for January 21st, 2003

CNN:

January 21st, 2003


CNN: Census
bureau: Hispanics largest U.S. minority
.

[13:28] <ctate> typedef __int32_t int32_t; [13:28] <ctate> #define int32_t __int32_t [13:28] * daveb shakes head

January 21st, 2003

[13:28] <ctate> typedef __int32_t int32_t;

[13:28] <ctate> #define int32_t __int32_t

[13:28] * daveb shakes head

I haven’t had time to read all of these links yet, but:

January 21st, 2003

I haven’t had time to read all of these links yet, but:

<ctate> interesting. lots of newspapers run pro-Bush letters
that sound… oddly similar.


<ctate> also:

<ctate> | United Nations weapons inspectors have uncovered
evidence that proves Saddam Hussein is trying to develop an arsenal of
nuclear weapons


<ctate> and, let’s see. Here. the guy who wrote one of the
Bushisms-type books, “Dyslexicon,” is coming to believe that there’s a
pattern to Bush’s malapropisms and fumbled commentary: that it’s
because he’s a sociopath.

<ctate> “He has no trouble speaking off the cuff when he’s speaking
punitively, when he’s talking about violence, when he’s talking about revenge.

<ctate> “When he struts and thumps his chest, his syntax and grammar
are fine,” Miller said.

<ctate> “It’s only when he leaps into the wild blue yonder of
compassion, or idealism, or altruism, that he makes these hilarious mistakes.”

<ctate> Happy reading for a Tuesday morning…

Steven at Panic has hunted down the secret to self-destructing DMG disk images in 10.2.3.

January 21st, 2003


Steven at Panic has hunted down the secret
to self-destructing DMG disk images in 10.2.3
.

Wow, Dan Bernstein is none too happy with UIC’s patent policy.

January 21st, 2003


Wow, Dan Bernstein is none too happy with UIC’s patent
policy
. (more frustration
patents
, along with his real
patents
)

New:

January 21st, 2003


New: Palm OS 5.2 Development Overview.

Tiny, low-resolution (640×480), USB, and fifty bucks.

January 21st, 2003


Tiny, low-resolution (640×480), USB, and fifty
bucks
. (Unlikely to work with MacOS, though — doesn’t look like it
supports standard USB mass-storage drivers, instead requiring TWAIN or
some crap.)

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