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When In Doubt, Learn Something New

  • May 10th, 2005
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Even though the plauge has only dwindled a small amount in it’s intensity, I have managed to drag myself to school. Silence seems to be my M.O. today even in the lab, much to the dismay of the filthy-minded freshman larvae (the kind who ask me for HTML help and watch over my shoulder as [ READ MORE ]

Plauge Update #3

So I went to the doctor today and he gave me the once over. The verdict seems to be some lung virus where the symptoms are being aggravated by allergies and some asthmatic stuff. I got some pills and some allergy meds to deal with the bronchitis and I’m meant to use this inhaler every [ READ MORE ]

More Worth Laughing At

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Something Worth Laughing At

I’ve been wanting to do this for so very long! I might have to change my name to “Acher” but I think it’s worth it[ READ MORE ]

Plague Update #2

I awoke at 45 minutes after noon today to find my throat a dry, scratchy mess. This, along with my GI upset, headache, severe congestion, joint pain and irritability, makes today the worst day in the latest episode of biological turmoil. So because today is mother’s day, there are 21 other people in my house [ READ MORE ]

Un-Furl the Interweb

  • May 7th, 2005
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So my favourite tool of the moment is a little app called furl (sorry, but the links on the freshmeat page seem to be broken at the moment). It gets HTTP headers from webservers and displays the info in human-readable format. While it’s no replacement for a vgrep of the output of a misbehaving machine, [ READ MORE ]

Dealing With Poor Editing

I sent in an article to be published in one of the school publications only to find that it was published with several spelling mistakes! I’m rather upset at myself for not following up on things but at the same time, I feel as if it is the job of the editors to error-check things [ READ MORE ]

A Triumph of the Human Intellect

  • May 6th, 2005
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I just read a fantastic essay sent to me by one of my Rabbis who thought that I might enjoy it. I read it in the presence of my good friend and teacher Ben while sitting in the lab. As we read Welcome to a New Age by Thomas A. Condon the rest of the [ READ MORE ]

Techno: The Retroactive Friendship Healer

  • May 5th, 2005
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Today I created a marvelous mix-CD of electronic music for my dearest friend Bayla. I really hope that she likes it because (yet again) I will be absent from one of her theatrical events. This time I actually made an effort to attend her production of Aida but am unable to because I am ill [ READ MORE ]

Class On The Tracks

  • May 5th, 2005
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CBS News had an interesting segement on their Early Show this morning: classes on a train. Professor Jace Hargis says, “I thought we tend to learn really well, even young people, on field trips.” It looks like they have taken this idea to a new extreme, take a look[ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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