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I have to learn to be careful about using the QiuckPost bookmarklet from Movable Type. I think I just sent a Trackback to News.com on an article because I happened to be reading it when I clicked on QuickPost to post about Hurricane Rita. Hopefully they’ll filter it out.

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I continue to watch hurricane Rita closely as the projections continue to predict that Rita will come ashore between Port Arthur, Texas and Lake Charles, Lousiana. The biggest town between the two is my home town of Orange, Texas. My entire extended family has evacuated, most of them to Longview, Texas.

I heard this morning that [...]

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Dr. Jeff Masters has bad news for my people:

While this is cause for some relief, Rita, like her weaker sister Katrina did, will still bring a Category 5 level storm surge along a 60 - 80 miles stretch of coast to the right of where the storm makes landfall on Saturday. Storm surge [...]

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Rivka at Respectful of Otters has a good post on the role cognitive dissonance has to play in people’s reaction to hurricane Katrina. I am currently fixated on hurricane Rita, which could just as easily hit my home town as anywhere else. When it does come ashore, the good and wicked will be affected alike.

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Someone pointed me to Kevin Hemenway’s series of articles on setting up OS X 10.4 for developers over at macdevcenter.com. Here are the articles so far:

Web Apps with Tiger: Getting Started Web Apps with Tiger: Security and MySQL Web Apps with Tiger: MediaWiki

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After watching Fink try to compile 53,000 packages and reading Kellan’s comment on my previous post, I decided to abandon that approach for getting this laptop set up and go for precompiled stuff instead. Here’s a list of the key packages:

Subversion client - precompiled binaries are provided by Metissian Apache - comes preinstalled, appears to work [...]

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This is quick document explaining the trials and travails of setting up a Powerbook G4 as a development box with Apache, PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Java, and Tomcat. After turning on the Powerbook and connecting to my wireless network, the computer automatically downloaded and installed all of the latest and greatest updates from Apple. [...]

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Opera is now giving away their Web browser. The unstated reason is, of course, Firefox.

Looking at Opera’s financial reports, I see that last quarter roughly 80% of their revenue was from their products for “Internet Devices” rather than personal computers. Even without any revenue from the PC version of the browser, the company would still [...]

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Bill Gates on software development:

There’s only really one metric to me for future software development, which is — do you write less code to get the same thing done?

It’s difficult to argue with that. Microsoft developer Mike Champion talks about getting there.

The way I see it, there are two tracks that you can [...]

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Christopher Allbritton says it’s civl war in Iraq, but you can judge for yourself. Here’s a list of conditions that describe a civil war that he supplies:

A weak central government with incompetent security apparatus. Spread of sectarian and ethnic killings. Existence of armed sectarian and ethnic militias. High threat perception among the sectarian and ethnic groups of the [...]

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