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“(http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2010/02/ap_source_fbi_formally_closes_anthrax_case.php) says that the FBI is closing the case about the Anthrax mailing and blaming …”

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From (http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/01/will-greece-get-a-bailout.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+matthewyglesias+%28Matthew+Yglesias%29):

If the Greece moral hazard play winds up not working, then investors will start …”

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From (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012803729.html):

The Senate took a vote on extending the federal debt ceiling — without which …”

“Sun Microsystems used to be one of my favorite tech companies. (http://secfilings.com/searchresultswide.aspx?link=2&filingid=7003742) them now …”

“(http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/01/money-for-nothing-and-votes-for-free.php) points out at that the (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/us/politics/23scotus.html) may have some pretty painful consequences to our …”

“So if you lost your firm billions of dollars, laid off tens of thousands and …”

“Fascinating article on what’s happened with the bankers bailout. One intriguing quote compares executive …”

“I have some contacts I wanted to share with other people so I figured let’s …”

“We had a great Thanksgiving.

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“Sorry for the long delay. I’ve been playing around a bit.”

“I’d been using the (http://www.sqlite.org) that came installed on Mac OS X but I …”

“It looks like (http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/obama-signs-cash-for-clunkers-bill/) has passed. I could get $4,500. The way …”

“# Mercurial’s Web Interface

Funny how some things can turn out to be much easier than …”

“So the (http://www.peteware.com/blog/2009/05/closer-to-a-new-car/) is getting closer. It passed in the (http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/cash-for-clunkers-passes-house/):

> In addition to …”

“So last week I wrote about (http://www.peteware.com/blog/2009/05/copying-a-stdvector-into-a-stdmap/) from two (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/vector/). How about doing the …”

“In a destructor for a class, I had a (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/vector/) of pointers that I wanted …”

“I was using the (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/std/iterator/ostream_iterator/), for example:

std::vector vals;
vals.push_back …”

“I’m (http://www.peteware.com/blog/2009/05/closer-to-a-new-car/) keeping track of that cash-for-clunkers program. It sounds like the Senate is …”

“It looks like the next version of (http://www.clarkconnect.com/index.php) is getting close. The 3rd beta …”

“I had two (http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/stl/vector/) with the first being the keys and the second being the …”

“It’s one step closer to happening! Getting a new car based on a trade …”

“I’ve gotten pretty careful about keeping time in UTC and then converting it to localtime …”

“(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/opinion/26rich.html?ref=opinion) in the NY Times does a great job reminding us tat the Bush Whitehouse …”

“Maybe I can finally buy a (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/opinion/07tue2.html):

> The Schumer-Israel approach would provide vouchers worth up …”

“I have a friend who seems to believe in Ayn Rand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivist_movement) and talks about …”

“I decided to give (http://www.skype.com) a try, again, after I started working with a few …”

“I tried to mount an NFS volume on my MacBook at home and it was …”

“Setting up my iPhone and various other clients to access my email via IMAP (Internet …”

“When you’re only policy solution is tax cuts, I guess you get pretty good at …”

“Hilarious spoof by SNL on the Republicans:

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“I was asked in a telephone interview how to find out if there are two …”

“This chart from the (http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/G17/Current/ipg1.gif) shows how far below capacity the economy currently expressed as …”

“From (http://extras.sltrib.com/bagley/Archive.asp?Vol=contentNum=11):

!(http://www.peteware.com/files/2009/02/bankers.png)
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“Ah, here’s the version normalized to the peak employment level before recession a started. …”

“I watched this TED talk on the (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/carolyn_porco_flies_us_to_saturn.html).

You can grab images (http://ciclops.org/ir_index/27/Cassini_In_Orbit). It’s a …”

“Is the past prelude? Here’s a comparison of job losses in all the post-WW2 …”

“Barack Obama has an op-ed in the Washington Post
starts to fight back at the short …”

“- Global, synchronized, recession.
- Recession continues through 2009 with weak, 1%, growth in 2010.
- …”

“It’s William Kristol’s last op-ed in the NY Times — ending one year of the …”

“I re-edited a bunch of posts to fix the stripped out angle bracket. Interesting …”

“Here is Warren Buffett interview by Tom Brokaw on Dateline NBC. Buffett is very …”

“This is a great map from the Wall St Journal about the fighting in Gaza. …”

“Some parties in NY to celebrate the inaugural:

- (http://livingliberally.org/inauguralball):

The Living Liberally Inaugural Ball.
Sunday, January 18th …”

“Someone posted a (http://blog.hoofoo.net/2009/01/14/wordpress-patch-for-problamatic-libxml2-version/) that takes the raw xml and replaces the offending entities with …”

“Sometimes my jaw just drops when I read about scientific advances. If the reporter …”

“Here is a five minute video history of the Internet.

History of the Internet from PICOL …”

“I was having problems with MarsEdit after updating to OpenSuse 11.1 because of a …”

“I’ve been monitoring the results of trying a Google AdWord campaign ($25 for a month). …”

“As I’m breaking old habits of actually getting work done, this puts it all in …”

“I woke up early this morning and decided using Google AdWords was a (http://www.peteware.com/blog/2009/01/7-secrets-to-getting-your-next-job-using-social-media/) and …”

“This article has some interesting ideas about looking for a job in our brave new …”

“I ran across animoto.com which lets you upload a bunch of still photos, select some …”

“Can’t ever have enough pizza:

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“I’d looked into SproutCore and sort of liked the idea. I see Apple is …”

“I was suffering from slow ssh logins — it’d take 20 seconds to get a …”

“I just upgraded to OpenSuse 11.1 and it’s giving WordPres grief. MarsEdit looses the …”

“I switched from (http://www.blogspot.com), which is the google hosted blogs to my own self hosted …”

“Well?

- Lists
- More

1. Numbers
2. And more
1. with some sub
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“I had SshKeychain installed before and am trying to get back 10.5’s ssh agent to …”

“- Commented out setenv and home in /etc/sudoers/
- Hmm, I had to run xhost +; …”

“I usually expect the occasional questionable or just plain corrupt contracting out of any government. …”

“A little late to the party (11.1 is going to be available in 5 days …”

“Great takedown by Barry Ritholtz of this poorly reasoned NY Times Op-ed by (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/11/opinion/11husock.html)

From (http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/more-cra-idiocy/)

The …”

“Updated to latest XQuartz (from 2008-09-15)

From (http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki)

The Xquartz project is an open-source effort to develop …”

“I like this saying:

(http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/12/win-smith-as-in-merrill-lynch-pierce-fenner-smith/)”

“Not sure why I’m obsessing about it but here’s a photo takedown of the (http://canopycanopycanopy.com/4/specters_of_a_young_earth)”

“From Mac Software Business podcast “MacSB (001): Getting Started as a Mac Indie Developer”

Basics:

- Copy: …”

“Gotta be hip! I’m setting up twitter and wondered if there was a way …”

“One of my fears, in the sense of something that would cause me to move …”

“A totally different idea on how to rescue Detroit. Basically, give a government rebate …”

“Best set of Obama photos I’ve run across are in the (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/11/the_next_president_of_the_unit.html)
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“Here’s an article that’s closer to the truth of doing a u-ISV:

(http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2008/11/18/the-software-product-myth/)

In our completely un-contrived …”

“One of the suggestions from the micro-ISV world is to encourage customers to talk so …”

“Ok, maybe it really is time to try that new fangled thing: RSS Feeds

First, I …”

“In reading about the proposed bailout of the auto industry, I’d been bothered by
the figure …”

“(http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/) looks like a great way of
doing a Content Delivery Network (CDN) on the cheap. …”

“Twiddla is a web based whiteboard. Making a node for future investigation

From (http://www.twiddla.com/)

Mark up …”

“I’ve started researching being a small, independent software vendor/developer. One of several inspiring stories …”

“I was trying to explain “The New Trade Theory” and doing a poor job of …”

“I was trying to explain “The New Trade Theory” and doing a poor job of …”

“It’s interesting the campaign sent out email before doing anything:

Peter —

I’m about to head …”

“From (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/05/us/politics/05campaign.html?_r=1hporef=slogin)

Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on
Tuesday, sweeping …”

“Here’s a nice summary of how the (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gcc4/index.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01GNUCollectionamp;S_tact=105AGX59amp;S_cmp=GRsitelnxw01). Here’s some info about the next …”

“Here’s some more info (see an
earlier
post) about the SEC’s 2004 decision to allow five …”

“I think this concisely summarizes how I feel about the Republicans behavior over the past …”

“Sweet. The Obama campaign has an iPhone app for keeping up with the campaign, …”

“Hmm, I don’t like making rice and I’m certainly not as vested in it as …”

“Some notes on various version control tools:

- Buildbot: (http://buildbot.net/trac) offers a way to build and …”

“I started reading “Working Effectively with Legacy Code”.  Here’s a great quote:

In poorly structured code
the …”

“So the SEC in 2004 gave 5 firms an alternative rule to operate under, basically
loosening …”

“Some lessons can only be learned in hindsight. One of the claims that the
anthrax letters …”

“Nice article on unhandled exception handling :-)
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc793966.aspx)

In the case of Figure 3, if the CLR …”

“Funny how the rich take care of themselves. There are rumors that the people …”

“Good, short example of using jQuery to submit a form via Ajax”

“The FBI is starting to walk-back some of it’s circumstantial evidence against
Dr. Ivins. It …”

“I’ve been following the Dr. Ivins suicide and the FBI accusations against him for being …”

“I’ve been having an ongoing discussion about taking aspirin to help reduce
coronary disease problems. …”

“Thanks to my son misplacing an adaptor for my earphones to work with my iPhone …”

“I swear I’m not a pessimist but this economy really has me worried. The …”

“Here are the ACM search results for articles I’d published:

Peter P Ware. Back in …”

“ScribeFire Blog Editor:

This Firefox extension makes it easy to highlight some text in an article …”

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Judith Warner writes that saying something is a lot cheaper than actually
doing something. Why …”

“Paul Krugman reminds us that The Onion is the only paper that really understands things. …”

“I’m trying out (http://plasq.com/). It’s trying really hard to be cute
but it’s doing good …”

“Ran across this nice hint to make it so the Unix path shows in the …”

“Looks like Apple really has improved the sounds quality on calls. Both GSM and …”

“Nice article with some extra info on configuring the iPhone to use gmail. It …”

“(http://www.varasoftware.com/products/screenflow/) from VaraSoftware.com is some cool screen capture software. Perhaps it’s most interesting idea …”

“I was curious about some web design companies.

- Checking out Craig’s list for “Computer Gigs”: …”

“I’ve been working on some existing code that has a reputation for being very difficult …”

“A very cool visualization techinique giving the history of a project. The commits (changes) …”

“Good overview of diagnosing memory related problems

- (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163528.aspx)
- Info on how to use SOS to …”

“Hmm, it turns out turning C++ code into html is both harder (nothing obvious) and …”

“Here’s some sample code that expands strings like “$VAR”. There’s a typedef needed:

typedef std::maplt;std::string,std::stringgt; …”

“I think Scott McClellan’s new book is just re-hashing old news and buying it just …”

“The following chart is from the San Francisco Federal Reserve certainly leave one very worried …”

“Previously, I’d found WAMP a pretty nice setup. Well, there’s a comparable installation for …”

“- wampserver.com for basic server
- Guides for setting up Wamp
- A nice theme
- Another theme
- …”

“Here are some more statistic supporting my previous post that Republicans are toast. The …”

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Someday, I’ll get back to using Qt in my professional existance. That and the …”

“In my work world, I use clearcase for doing version control. At NYSE, we …”

“# Constructors should be simple, predictable, and never fail. #
## Simple ##
Keep your constructors simple …”

“- Nice set of Keynote slide templates (http://www.keynotepro.com)
!(http://lh4.ggpht.com/peteware/SCUjOy2jUDI/AAAAAAAAAqQ/JIpHw5_F4SA/keynotepro.png?imgmax=800)

- (http://www.jumsoft.com)
!(http://lh6.ggpht.com/peteware/SCUfrS2jUCI/AAAAAAAAAqE/NTlzzcDXD_E/jumsoft.png?imgmax=800)
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“I’m googling myself and collecting some of the results:

- RCS – 1987
- How about some …”

“I keep getting asked by friends where I am on Obama vs. Clinton (I’ll support …”

“Interesting article about programming language popularity. This is the
“TIOBE Programming Community Index”

C++ down; …”

“I’m reading a book “The Art of Happiness” by Howard Cutler. He’s a psychiatrist …”

“Nothing of mine, just some themes I’ve been trying out:
- I definitely like the font …”

“More joy on the work front. Here’s an excerpt from a new book on …”

“This article about Iragi

military analysts selling a bill of goods is disturbing if not …”

“I’ve always been a fan of the djangoproject.org and it’s what I use for my …”

“I got REM’s latest: Accelerate:

It’s good but honestly part of what may REM great back …”

“We went to the Guggenheim yesterday (10 min walk and Credit Suisse has a corporate …”

“We did our part for a href=”http://www2.earthhourus.org/”Earth Hour/a on Sat, Mar 29th. So at …”

“I’ve got to admit, (http://www.apple.com/timecapsule/)

Starting off was a little slow. The initial backup was …”

“By default, “Grab” on MacOS saves the file as .tiff. Why? There’s no …”

“I found a great 1-page poster of keybindings for VS2005.

My favorite, previously unknown key binding, …”

“I found myself wanting to make sure a couple objects that spport IDisposable were cleaned …”

“We went to a really, really cool place. “Smoke” up around 106th and Broadway.
(http://www.smokejazz.com/)
!(http://lh5.google.com/peteware/R-m0QyYIcjI/AAAAAAAAAmo/pEQ7E1UMqSs/Smoke-Logo_over.jpg?imgmax=800)

Here’s …”

“I saw “Mama Mia” Fri night. img src=”http://lh6.google.com/peteware/R-myCCYIciI/AAAAAAAAAmg/c0Zis9IZ-Ek/gallery07_pics_r1_c1.jpg?imgmax=800″ alt=”gallery07_pics_r1_c1.jpg” border=”0″ width=”187″ height=”358″ /
We went for …”

“We got some more photos online from the trip to the British Virgin Islands.

Here are …”

“I had a Linksys wireless router (WRT54GS) but it’d been acting a little flakey
the past …”

“It’s been said before but that doesn’t mean it’s said to often:

**Don’t use GC.Collect()**

So first, …”

“Here’s a Paul Krugman article from Mar, 2003 pretty accurately predicting the course of …”

“I was dissatisfied with MarsEdit primarily because the photo editing was non-existent.

Of course, now I …”

“I’ve got Leopard (10.5.1) with the developer tools installed and want to do some
more development …”

“So currently I’m using Blogger, Google’s blogging code, available at blogspot.com. I like not …”

“From Spanglish

Lately, your low self-esteem is just good common sense

Good movie.”

“Interesting. It was pretty easy to migrate the domain name to a (http::/blog.peteware.com)

Not sure …”

“So I was checking out Apple Developer Connection which is informative. But why would …”

“Setting up the blog.

And using a (http://www.red-sweater.com/marsedit/) to post.

–pete”