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Posted
28 October 2007 @ 11am

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Leopard

In Leopard, the Terminal is Keychain-aware. That’s very convenient, and does away with the need for sshkeychain.


Sparse Small-World Graphs are Disturbing

1. Read Henry’s post on Facebook. Signed up out of curiosity and masochistic desire to have smallness of social network confirmed.
2. Joined the University of Arizona network. Noodling around, saw the profile for Joe Grad Student from my department. Looked at his list of friends.
3. Noticed that one of Joe Grad Student’s friends looked familiar. […]


iPhone Watch

I was able to pick up an iPhone early through a local contact at Apple, and I have to say it’s really something. No of course I wasn’t able to do that—who do you think I am? Besides, I already have a phone on a relatively new contract. But I was in the Campus Bookstore […]


Posted
4 June 2007 @ 11am

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iPhone

I know I speak as a Mac user and thus by definition in thrall to the Steve Jobs RDF —though I am not in the market for a phone right now—but looking at these new commercials, it does seem as though the iPhone is going to be a license for Apple to print money. […]


Posted
21 April 2007 @ 11am

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IT

Don Knuth

Via 3QD, a nice profile of the great Don Knuth who—amongst many other things—gave the world TeX, which, together with its various descendants, helps make technical writing beautiful and encourages amateur typophiles to waste their time formatting their work.


McCainSpace

John McCain’s MySpace page “borrows” Mike D.’s page template and also hotlinks to images on his server. So he makes a few changes to them.

Via John “You’re having a membership drive but you still haven’t mailed me my t-shirt, it’ll be three months on Friday” Gruber.


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