Monthly Archives: February 2010

2 Ant to Maven Migration Links

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Karl

Raible Design: Ant vs. Maven Sonatype Blog: How to convert from Ant to Maven in 5 minutes

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Don’t look now but..

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Karl

Google is still censoring in China.

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Seth Finkelstein’s Pew Research answers

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Karl

Seth Finkelstein has posted his answers to a Pew survey on the future of the Internet, and Google making us stupid (or not) in a thought provoking yet grounded (which is rare on the Web – admit it!) post. Seth … Continue reading →

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10 years of weblogging

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl

I’ve been trying to write a riff on Garret’s 10 year anniversary piece on blogging for a while now. But every time I start, it ends up way too long. So just read his piece and come back. Okay, did … Continue reading →

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Douglas R. Hofstadter “analogy as the lifeblood, so to speak, of human thinking”

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl

Douglas R. Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition: My point is simple: we are prepared to see, and we see easily, things for which our language and culture hand us ready-made labels. When those labels are lacking, even though … Continue reading →

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Netbeans IDE + Python virtualenv

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl

teleported bits shares how.

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It’s always bad when people like that, write articles like this

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl

Charles Munger: Basically, It’s Over: A parable about how one nation came to financial ruin.

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“A Conversation with Martin Fowler”

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl

Bill Venners interviewed Martin Fowler back in 2002 that resulted in six part series filled with engineering wisdom to absorb. Among the many exchanges was the following on flexibility that reinforces some principals I try (not always successfully) to put … Continue reading →

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Charlie Lord, RIP

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Karl

“Charlie Lord, Mental Ward Photographer And Activist, Dies At Age 90″. Charlie Lord’s work, which exposed the horrors of Byberry State Hospital here in Philadelphia in the 1940s, was recently profiled by NPR: At Byberry, Lord sneaked a small Agfa … Continue reading →

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Kiss free calls to 911 for emergencies goodbye?

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Karl

Consumerist: “California Town To Start Charging Up To $400 For 911 Calls”.

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