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The reporting on gun-related aspects of the “Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face” story has been woeful. Few reporters seem to know much at all about hunters, shotguns, shotgun shells, or anything else that might be helpful in explaining this story to laymen. I’m not incredibly knowledgeable about guns, either, but I know [...]

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As part of migrating everything to the new server, I’m trying to clean out my mailbox on the old server. I had thought I had forwarded all of the email accouns I used to my Gmail account, as part of a project to consolidate all of my email at one address. (Previously I had many, [...]

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My wife and I don’t eat out on Valentine’s Day. The anonymous waiter explains why. In the article he refers to Valentine’s Day as “amatuer night.” I heard exactly the same characterization last week from the owner of a nice restaurant where we sometimes eat — “amateur night.” Bottom line, most of the nice restaurants [...]

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Awhile back, I mentioned a memory leak that gave me fits. After numerous bouts with the profiler, lots of hand wringing, and many outage notifications, I was totally at a loss. There was nothing obvious in the profiler output that pointed to the problem, and turning off various components of the system in attempt to [...]

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Anyone have any tips on the best way to use Movable Type to publish a weblog of links? The basic requirement is that each link has a title and description, and that you can link directly to the destination (rather than the weblog entry) from the RSS/Atom feed.

It seems like you need three fields [...]

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Fair housing activists have filed a lawsuit against Craigslist because the site failed to filter out ads that advertise housing in a discriminatory fashion. I’m interested in this because I have sympathy for both sides. Discrimination in housing ads strikes me as a bad thing, and indeed Craigslist added a warning about posting discriminatory ads [...]

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Tristan Louis has a post on gatekeepers in the weblog world, the idea being that the “A list” bloggers set the agenda and most other people pick up the topics of interest based on what the gatekeepers are talking about. I tend to fall into the camp that argues that this sort of thing is [...]

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Tyler Cowen argues that Moby Dick is the great American novel. I confess that I have never read it, although I did write a research paper on it when I was a junior in high school. The general argument against Moby Dick is that it’s tedious and difficult, and that’s what has always deterred me [...]

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If you can read this, you’re seeing the new server. Please leave a comment if you notice any breakage.

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I’m anticipating moving the site soon, so I’ve disabled comments until things are migrated to the new server.

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