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{ Monthly Archives } September 2004

Electoral Sadness

The Elect­oral Vote Pre­dictor 2004 web site has some sad­den­ing com­ments about the US elect­oral sys­tem today. The sad­dest is a pointer to the BBC story of ex-President Carter’s con­ten­tion that Flor­ida does not ful­fill inter­na­tional require­ments for a fair elec­tion. Since Flor­ida has so many votes asso­ci­ated with it, it is a determ­in­ing factor […]

2004 09 28 General
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Palace Walk

A small book­club meet­ing with mixed feel­ings about Naguib Mah­fouz’ “Palace Walk”

2004 09 27 Books Comments Off

FOO Camp

I was lucky enough to go along to the Friends of O’Reilly camp; it’s a dif­fer­ent style of con­fer­ence. The recipe is to put a bunch of geeks together, give them a num­ber of rooms, feed them reg­u­larly, and see what they come up with.

2004 09 13 Conference Comments Off

Knees and NHS

Exper­i­ences with the NHS after knee dam­age incurred while dancing…

2004 09 11 General Comments Off

CSW XML Summer School

The CSW XML Sum­mer School is where I typ­ic­ally spend the last week of July each year. As the name implies, it’s more like a school than a con­fer­ence, with the emphasis on teach­ing imme­di­ately use­ful stuff rather than bleed­ing edge dis­course. I really enjoy going each year and there are lots of reas­ons for that.

2004 09 01 Conference Comments Off