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Chad Dickerson shares a Treo tip, which I appreciate. I haven’t been inconvenienced by a Treo 650 restart yet, but they are happening occasionally. But it’s a bit scary that Chad “rebuilt” his Treo, meaning (I expect) that he reinstalled all the software from the ground up. Progress is two steps forward, one step back [...]

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Just lost a medium-length post which will take a few minutes to re-create. Damn. And one of the recent posts I was reading was Tim Bray on blogging clients, where he hit the nail on the head: Unfortunately, at the moment, writing stuff in the browser mostly sucks. It’s primitive, it’s clumsy, and (mostly) doesn’t [...]

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Hardly a straight-through read, America (The Book) is worth flipping through for a laugh. Video is a better format for Jon Stewart and crew.

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I put in a mile and a half in the pool yesterday, both because I needed to get some exercise in and because I wanted to prove to myself that I’ll be fine with the Alcatraz distance. OK on both counts, though I’ll still be happy to reach the shore and start racing then. But [...]

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Sharpe gets to drown his enemy in Sharpe’s Battle, a retelling of the battle of Fuentes de Onoro, on the Spain-Portugal border, in May, 1811. Maybe I read too many in a row, but this one was nothing special. I’ll have to wait for the library to find the next three, but I need a [...]

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Sharpe’s Escape simply gives Bernhard Cornwell a chance to write about the battle of Bussaco. There is a more personal vendetta, of course, which gives Sharpe a chance to mimic the Tim Robbins escape through a sewer from Shawshank Redemption. Sharpe is fortunate enough to have company, including a beautiful naked woman, but it’s still [...]

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Got out for a mid-week movie to see Sideways. After all the hype, we felt like we were the last people to see the film, especially in San Francisco. Since there were three other people in the theater, I guess we weren’t the only slackers. Result? Mild enjoyment, but felt like a female buddy movie [...]

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House of Sand and Fog compels attention, but there’s no solace in this movie. Don’t watch it if you’re in the mood for a light-hearted escape. That which can go wrong, does. There are no winners here. Still, I might want to read the book from which the movie was made. The movie avoided simplicity, [...]

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Although Sharpe’s Gold is the ninth book, chronologically, in the series, it was only the second Bernhard Cornwell wrote. Aside from demonstrating the cruelty of the guerrilla war pursued by the Portugese partisans, Sharpe’s Gold gives Cornwell an excuse to have Sharpe blow up the fortress at Almeida… while the British and Portuguese are occupying [...]

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I’ll interrupt my exciting rundown of my reading habits to let people know that CNET Networks is hiring. Personally, I wanted to call attention to the one of the senior software engineer positions. If you read CNET News.com and love delivering tech news first — and tech news in different ways, this is a great [...]

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