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Top story on Slashdot is the debate in the Texas legislature about whether
the term “engineer” can be used for computer scientists or
programmers. I ran into this while at school; in fact, one of my
courses had to be called “Program Construction” because “Program
Engineering” would have been forbidden. (Oh, well, it looks like now it’s “Program
Engineering” again. Whatever.)

Adam came up with this
list of San Mateo restauraunts just a
little too late for those of us leaving the area!

Mark Pilgrim continues his quest to fix bugs in the Web with a
primer on HTTP error code 410: “Gone, not to return”.

Much of the supply of Tomahawk cruise missiles has been expended, aircraft
carriers were going to run out of precision guided bombs and there were
serious maintenance problems with tanks, armored vehicles and other
equipment, the article said.

Reuters: Rumsfeld
Ignored Pentagon Advice on Iraq, and the war is now a “stalemate”.

I’ve had a redesign sort of on the books for a little while. It’s about
70% complete, graphically, and 35% complete, code-wise.

But there’s just so much else going on now. I have two more weeks in this
apartment, in this state. There’s so much going on.

Hence the minimalist re-design. It’s really an un-design—I’ve
stripped out almost all the layout, leaving the structure largely intact.
You might think of this as the web version of my apartment at the moment:
half-lived in, with all the pretty stuff sealed in boxes, waiting to be
unpacked on the other side.

dsandler.org isn’t going dormant or anything. I’ll still be here
if you will. But I think it’ll be a few weeks before I can unpack and
spread out again.

(Should I have used carboard-box tan instead of white?)

Another haircut I’m not totally thrilled about. I managed to bargain my way
to straight bangs, but now it’s all way too short. I mean, I
think so. I guess I’ve got a couple weeks for it to grow out before I see
Erin again (which is pretty sad in itself).

Another Poster for
Peace: royalty-free, well-designed anti-war posters and sundries.