I’ve had an introspective few days, taking stock of life and whatnot.  The recent IQ tests (and first set of results) played a part in this renewed self-examination, but it’s been brewing for a while.  I stumbled on this page and it was as if someone had been following me around for the past 15 [...]

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Around this time (heard some rumblings last week) we start hearing about candidates’ vice-presidential choices.  Inevitably talk turns to the candidates’ weak areas and speculation abounds about what VP options might best shore up said weaknesses.  Should Barack choose Edwards, who would be stronger in the South and among the poor?  Should McCain choose someone [...]

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I currently don’t drive much, so when I do I tend to be more aware of others’ driving habits than I used to be.  Maybe it’s the speeding tickets I’ve had over the years, or maybe I’m just getting old, but I don’t tend to drive very fast anymore.  If anything my wife thinks I [...]

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I had to seach around for this, and still had to piece together the info.  Apparently people have some sort of reluctance to just give you the actual SQL statements to run.  Yes, the table names *might* be different if you choose non-default prefixes, for example, or you’ve done major modifications, but I suspect you’ll [...]

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I’ve put up a first pass at visualizing the data from the survey I put up last month about computer language use and religion.  This was an attempt to see if there are any correlations between languages people *prefer* to use and religious identity.  The results are available to be viewed at http://www.kimsal.com/reldevsurvey/results.php.
There’s a few [...]

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This video does a very understandable walk through of the current monetary system we have, and is pretty scary, imo.  It’s rather long (47 minutes), but worth watching.
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So the Westboro Baptist Church has been on 20/20 tonight.  I’ve seen these Westboro church members in a few documentaries, most notably a Louis Theroux British show earlier this year (probably filmed in 2006). 
This ‘church’ - mostly a small extended family - have web sites like ‘godhatesfags.com’ and picket military funerals with signs like [...]

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Some of you who know me know that I can cry at the drop of a hat if the appropriate music is playing.  I’d mentioned it to colleagues before, but I’m not sure they believed it until I went to a movie with one of them and he saw me welling up.  This was the [...]

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For Halloween this year, I’ve dressed up like I do every year - as a creature of habit.  (whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, insert other scary sounds here)

Whew, that camera phone is just … unflattering at best.  I’m not giving it much material to work with, though, so I can’t blame Sony Ericsson 100%  :)  But given [...]

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A nephew of the Queen is being named as the victim in the Royal blackmail plot. His name is now being widely touted on the internet, including the authoritative Huffington Post, quoting the Radar publication.
Royal Anecdotes

My wife is really eating this stuff up. The name in question is supposedly David Linley, son of Princess [...]

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