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Civ 4: Warlords is Out!
Today is the official release of Civ4: Warlords! Go get it, but make sure you leave me a copy!
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Children’s Book to teach them about DRM
Paradigms are a battle of the mind that take place when we prepare our children with certain expectations about the world. Don’t let them grow up thinking there’s something right about Digital Restrictions Management! Have them read The Pig and the Box and let them learn about why software and culture need to be libre.…
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My first published book of photography!
Today I received my copy of the photography book I’ve published, Eric Mesa’s Top 40 flickr Images. It’s a great feeling to finally have the book published after having worked on it since April. There were a few false starts with the publishing process as I figured out how to make sure my final PDF…
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flickr running slowly
flickr’s servers suffered some kind of meltdown last night and they continue to run extremely slow into this morning.
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The Cost of Windows
Today, The Linux Extremist, posted his attempts to compute what we in the Linux world call “The Microsoft Tax”, this is the extra cost of a computer with Windows as opposed to a computer without an operating system. His numbers are not all that surprising with an extra cost of 323.67 British pounds for Windows,…
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A Quote
This Arab quote, which I read in the newspaper, describes exactly how I feel. “Me against my brother; me and my brother against my cousin; and me, my brother and my cousin against the stranger”
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Overhaul
As part of my tasks today, I decided to clean up my home pages and eliminate a lot of the crud and invalid links. I just wanted to make it a bit more pleasing upon the eyes of my visitors. I still have some work to do at http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com, but I think that I like…
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Biblical Genetic Engineering
In biology class we learn about Mendel as one of the pioneers of biology for he determined that tall plants breed tall plants and short ones breed short ones. However, it’s clear that even in the ancient of days there was some knowledge of how genetics worked. Take, for example, the following passage from Genesis…
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Two Programming Firsts! (for me)
It took me the better part of about 2 hours to figure out how to get everything to work correctly, but I am finally done with my program, GNaughtyNice. It figures out how naughty or nice a word is by using the Google search API and searching once with the porn filter on and once…
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last.fm facelift
last.fm has had a facelift! It looks quite a bit more sleek! The biggest change seems to be adding artist and album pictures near all of the stats. Check out my last.fm page.
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Happy Bastille Day!
To any French readers I may have out there, Happy Bastille Day!
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Google search trends
To see a graph of search trends of any search term on Google, just mozey on over to www.google.com/trends and separate any search terms by commas. It’s quite a bit of fun!