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Oct 18, 2010

Irresponsible Fearmongering

There's been some irresponsible fearmongering on the opinion pages of the FT where Stephen Lange Ranzini wrote: According to credible news reports, the large blackout in 2003 that shut down the north…

Jun 9, 2010

FreeGrep v1.1

Proving no good deed goes unpunished, I left a small bug in FreeGrep v1.0. It has been fixed and updated to 1.1 and also submitted for update in the FreeBSD Ports Tree.

Jun 8, 2010

FreeGrep Ported to Minix and New Release

This morning, GitHub user gautambt ported FreeGrep to Minix 3. While the build system leaves something to be desired, I remain resolute in my desire to never learn Autoconf. I have pulled…

Jun 2, 2010

New FTP Site

I have set up a small FTP site for numerous small programs I either wrote or was once responsible for. Or still am.

May 23, 2010

Waterfall Charts in R

It is often hard to wrap your head around the finances of organizations and the unusual accounting rules of public organizations make that even more difficult. When I read The McKinsey Way…

Apr 16, 2010

Shell Script for Remember the Milk

A couple of weeks ago, the Remember the Milk blog posted about adding tasks at the command line. A simple way to handle task generation, but a bit too complex for even…

Apr 12, 2010

Review of the CA's Business Plan

The CA's Financial Advisory Committee has completed its requested review of the CA's proposed business plan. Columbia Association - Revi... by James P. Howard, II on Scribd

Mar 6, 2010

Bad Math from Wow Containers

I just saw an advertisement for something called Wow Containers which allows the tops and bottoms of containers to be interchangeable with each other. So far, this seems sensible. Then the commercial…

Feb 1, 2010

Working with Mediawiki

Working with Mediawiki from James Howard Above are the slides/handout from a short course I prepared in 2008 called "Working with Mediawiki." The slides give a very brief overview of Mediawiki then…