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I've created a new blog, Outside the Box, to replace this one.

I'm going to retire this blog and post to my main blog, Top of the Mountains, instead, effective immediately.

I've hesitated to post because I'm trying to move this blog to a different location (and name), but this is good stuff: today Apple announced Boot Camp, which lets you install Windows XP on your Intel-based Mac (and boot both OS X and Windows). Personally, I'd never use ...

(I hope.) So, my Powerbook died yesterday. Luckily I can still boot it in target disk mode and get all the data off, but it looks like it's going to be out of the game. (Once I finish backing up I'll run the hardware diagnostic test ...

Well, it's not that bad -- just a huge headache, really achy bones, and loss of balance -- but it's keeping me in bed. I'm not sure yet whether I'll be able to get anything done today or if I'll have to give in and sleep it all away. ...

Last night I stayed up late reading Learning Python. Most of it was ordinary programming stuff -- "This is a function" -- but here are the three things that got me excited and almost gave me goosebumps. First, being able to return tuples from a function (so you ...

The more I read about Python, the more I'm liking it. (See Eric S. Raymond's Why Python?, for example.) I suppose that if I upgraded to Tiger, the binding problem I had would go away. So, if that does indeed happen, I suspect I'll be doing ...

I'm supposed to be in bed (early meeting tomorrow morning) but I figured I'd quickly mention this. I downloaded and installed PyObjC today and tried to get the sample program (from Apple's website) working, and I was so close, but for some reason my Xcode (1.5, on OS X ...

In my linguistics classes, we're doing stuff with text processing/analysis software (like WordCruncher) that's Windows-only, and it's a shame. How hard would it be to write a text analysis engine in Perl or Python and a frontend in PyObjC? It can't be that hard... Perhaps I'll use ...

Found a very interesting read today: Secret Out - How Google Ranks Websites. Now I'm wondering if all those language links on Blank Slate are such a good idea after all... [tags]Google[/tags]