Alright folks, I admit it, I’m a Capitalist.

Some clever chap over at lifehacker found a surprising way to build a cable management system.

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Recently I listened to Thomas Paine’s Common Sense, courtesy of Librivox. In every sense it is worth the listen. Oh yes, and it’s also free.

For what it’s worth, “Special Master” doesn’t sound much more comforting than “Pay Czar”

The latest MacOSX update includes the new Safari browser. I tried earlier beta releases and, at the time I was unimpressed 1) because it was slow 2) because it crashed a lot – although I will note that my experience with the beta was not the same experience that other people had. Nevertheless the latest version of Safari is great. I really think the ‘Top Sites’ view when you open a new tab is something very interesting. I’m looking forward to see where Apple takes it. Only one gripe though: The refresh button? Did you have to move that on us?

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For anyone who has become familiar with Boost C++, I think you’ll agree, that’s some crazy stuff.

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Over the past few months I have spent time writing an NFS client library in C++ and recently I was asked to add Python bindings. I looked into ctypes and found that it was really not suitable for C++ and so I started looking at Boost.Python. Somehow I happened across Py++. With a minimal amount of time the GUI was able to output Boost.Python code. To make it work from Ubuntu:

* sudo apt-get install libboost-python1.37.0 libboost-python1.37-dev
* get Py++ from the website and sudo python setup.py install
* run pyplusplus_gui
– give it a header file
– point GCC_XML location at: /usr/bin/gccxml
– push a button … how easy is that?

This evening the Bellingham’s city council “hosted a discussion to explore becoming a sanctuary city for soldiers who don’t return to duty”. Now, I do not work for the military, but I do have family and friends who do. Now, I grew up in a military town and I have the utmost respect for the men and women who serve and protect and so I cannot fathom why this makes any sense.

I wonder if Dr. Garavaglia (Dr. G) watches CSI.

I read this quote today and thought it was just as true as it was in the time of Alexis de Tocqueville:

“In America I saw the freest and most enlightened men placed in the happiest circumstances that the world affords, it seemed to me as if a cloud habitually hung upon their brow, and I thought them serious and almost sad, even in their pleasures.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Chapter XIII