PZ Myers, over at Pharyngula (one of the Science Blogs, check them out) is very entertaining: People who think that merely believing in Jesus grants them redemption must also think that believing in evolution is a magic charm that grants them exemption from criticism of any nonsense they might hold. It doesn’t work that way. There is no get-out-of-criticism-free card.

From the GNU Coding Standards: If you do support Windows, please do not abbreviate it as “win”. In hacker terminology, calling something a “win” is a form of praise. You’re free to praise Microsoft Windows on your own if you want, but please don’t do this in GNU packages. Instead of abbreviating “Windows” to “un” [sic], you can write it in full or abbreviate it to “woe” or “w”. On another note, I need to stop suffixing all of my post titles with “Of The Day. Read more

My friends and I started a blog for our long running club of snobbery: Scotch & Politics. Brendan posted an excellent piece today entitled “Why I Don’t Like Blogs” and Mike brought his thoroughly engaging Daily Briefing into the mix. Check it out and let us know what you think.

What a weekend. I got back last night from my trip to Atlanta, Georgia, and Birmingham, Alabama. My friend from college, Thomas, got married to his gorgeous girlfriend, Jennie. It was a helluva trip. We went to Waffle House a million times, drank every night and saw the biggest aquarium in the world. We even got in an accident and stood on the side of the freeway in the sweltering Georgia heat for an hour and a half. Read more

I’m back from the dead! Here’s what I did: I got married. I went sailing. It was all a blast. Now, back to real life.

This is nice to know: Subversion’s default keyword substitution setting is exactly opposite of CVS’. Subversion will never attempt to perform textual substitutions on your file contents unless explicitly asked to do so. So that’s why -kb isn’t ever necessary when svning.

I really should start using Mauricio Fernandez’ rcov code coverage tool for ruby.

I discovered today that The Kleptones maintain a blog/podcast called Hectic City. I have a moderately irrational love for his (The Kleptones is one fellow) mashups and am quite excited to hear more of his and others’ mashups via. this podcast.

So it turns out it’s hard to find the time to sort through hundreds of photos while you’re on vacation. Kerri and I had a great time in D.C. and I took a bunch of great pictures. More details soon!

Kerri and I went to New Hampshire this past weekend for Owen’s birthday. We gave him framed prints of three photos that I happen to be particularly happy with. <typo:flickr img=”376964835″ size=”small”/> <typo:flickr img=”376952798″ size=”small”/> <typo:flickr img=”251426897″ size=”small”/> I printed them with Flickr’s “order prints” function and they came out very nice. Be warned that, if your photo is not the same aspect ratio as the size you order, they will mercilessly center crop the picture. Read more