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My Kindle Fire review? sort of - 12/07/2011 02:33:05 PM
I couldn’t disagree more with this usability study of the Kindle Fire (linked by @SGgrc) in a number of key ways. Don’t worry, though, this isn’t just me rushing to point out that someone is wrong on the internet, but I have to comment ... -
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Previous Post - 11/09/2011 04:09:27 PM
I don’t remember how the conversation started, whether I just decided to thrust my musical tastes on him, but the part where my recollection begins is with myself at thirteen years old playing “Aerodynamic” by Daft Punk for my father ... -
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The appeal of Minecraft - 10/20/2011 05:23:46 PM
I’ve abortively begun to write a post trying to explain to the world (and secretly, myself) why I have spent so many hours playing Minecraft, each time devolving in to describing the emergent narrative of the game and deleting the draft because no ... -
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Inadvertently following the Unix Way - 10/03/2011 05:15:24 PM
I was able to rewrite Robert Berry’s B-Movie Title Generator today in ruby (thanks to the quasi-magical Sinatra web framework) because he, almost certainly unwittingly, followed the Unix Way. By way of a definition, Ted Dziuba recently gave a ... -
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Work in progress - 07/30/2011 11:15:41 AM
I’ve never been very good at predicting my future, but occasionally I get it right. I wrote these words in a note to Lynn sometime in 1986 or 1987, when we were in our early twenties: Darling, I know you wonder whether I really need you. I know ... -
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Robert Berry's Web Site
06/15/2011 03:31:52 PM
When you’re young, if you’ve got a reasonably good life, it’s easy to feel that things are always getting better. You’re constantly moving forward, learning new things, climbing career ladders, building a life. But eventually, one ... -
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Cyberterrorism and cyberstatecraft - 06/14/2011 12:32:22 AM
Let’s start with a review: StuxNet was a virus created to specifically infiltrate Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities and physically and irreparably damage the centrifuges used to weaponize nuclear material. It was transmitted over USB flash ... -
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Robert Berry's Web Site
06/02/2011 08:49:11 PM
Last weekend I did something I haven’t done for almost a decade: I started recording a new song. I’ve been semi-retired from music since I finished Unqualified in 2002. I did record a handful of songs for my “Unfinished Business” ... -
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Virgil's Weblog
Morning Commute 2011-02-18 - 02/22/2011 08:59:33 PM
Busy week. Took great communication class taught by Bart Queen from Ultimate PowerSpeak. -
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Morning Commute 2011-02-11 - 02/12/2011 06:05:05 PM
Podcast: Discussed iPhone and birthday dinner out with family. -
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