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Very Strong Statements

Friday, October 9, 2009

First, and unrelatedly, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. This makes me feel weird. Thorbjoern Jagland, one of the Nobel Committe and possessor of a very fine name, said: “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future,” which [...]

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Greatest thing ever

Thursday, July 23, 2009

I was looking around my Google Analytics account to see what were the top search terms that brought visitors to this site. Most of them are pretty boring or obvious, but there are two true gems: At #5: Brett Howe At #8: “look here, dipshit” I love that LSH is the third from the top [...]

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Sorry

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Fixing a bunch of long-standing cruft.  LSH is now _really_ at http://www.longstraighthighway.com – no more redirection.  So if your RSS readers were pointed at the wp directory, please adjust that. I have somehow managed to botch it so that all the posts say “0 comments” but rest assured that the torrent of comments that you [...]

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Yes, everything is different.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

You’ll notice that everything is different. I’ve been talking for years about changing the software.  I’ve always talked about changing it to this custom thing I was, am, working on.  That still might happen, eventually, but it’s time to acknowledge that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and to acknowledge that I’m about [...]

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