Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Release Date
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ release date of July 21st has been announced. You can pre-order it now from amazon : Standard Edition Deluxe Edition The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie is due out in theaters on July 13th. Hmm … I think I’m not going to get much done…
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It’s been busy and it’s a boy
To make a really long story short our baby boy Lucas was born a few days ago around 11:30am and about a month early. Stats : 6.1 lbs and 18 inches length. Mom and baby are fine. Mom delivered the baby by herself at home. The slightly more verbose story : My wife felt like…
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Happy New Year!
Well, here is a little quiz to ring in the new year. It’s the partner quiz to the super hero quiz which you may remember here. Your results:You are Dr. Doom Dr. Doom 69% Mr. Freeze 65% Apocalypse 64% Lex Luthor 61% Venom 59% Magneto 56% Juggernaut 54% The Joker 52% Poison Ivy 49% Kingpin…
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Network interface mystery
I did something yesterday I hadn’t done in a while, I rebooted my Gentoo Linux box. I use it for samba shares/backups, DNS & DHCP (using dnsmasq), and it also does a good job of protein folding in its spare time(Foldingathome). I have also been extremely good about keeping the system up to date using…
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Happy Thanksgiving!
Heading to the airport shortly. Just thought I would wish everyone a great day and hope there is much turkey to be had.
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Heading back the States
Well I have been in Germany for about two weeks and it is finally time to head home. I must say that 80’s American music is very alive and well in Germany. The playlist at the Hotel bar reminded of “The Goldmine”, which was where children of the 80’s went when they attended one of…
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Much “Bully”hoo about nothing
After much hub-bub, lawsuits, injunctions, and school district bannings about a game not even remotely released yet, it seems that Rockstar’s Bully is actually a not the GTA-esque game all of its critics thought it would be. Here is the in-depth wired article : http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,71922-0.html?tw=wn_index_2 I wonder if there is a lesson in here somewhere….…
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Musharraf on Daily Show
Here is Pakistani President Musharraf in a interview on the Daily Show. Pay special attention to Jon Stewart’s first and last questions. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: The memoir Musharraf was plugging : From the reviews I have read, the contents of the book seem a little sensational and a little more fiction that…
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Random Art with Kaleidoscope eyes
Don’t remember where I originally saw the link for this but it is a pretty neat little piece of interactive flash Kaleidoscope art. Enjoy : LineTo experimental by ~Volcanic-Penguin on deviantART
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Jesus as a Rabbi – banned from Hospital
Here is the dig, though, it is not that it was a portrait of Jesus that was the problem. Rather, that the portrait showed Jesus as a rabbi that seems to have stirred the controversy surrounding the painting which caused it to be removed. Here is the Chicago Tribune article : http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0609050245sep05,1,2768565.story
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Silicon Valley Pioneer Hitchikers
It’s an art project and a history lesson! It’s GPS/Cellphone equipped cutouts of Silicon Valley pioneers hitchiking across the country! To read more about this project and see the cutout GPS locations and travelogue go here : http://www.ylem.org/Hitchhikers/ Sun Microsystems also got in on the action as HP didn’t seem to want to care for…
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Snakes on a Plane
A movie that tells you everything you need to know in its title. And it delivers. It is fun. It is very quotable. It even has a very basic plot. All in all a fun movie going experience and it is probably better to see it in a theatre than on video as the “group”…
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Right after: A New Hope
I believe this originally aired on Robot Chicken on Cartoon Network :
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PHP5 and SOAP is making me nuts
<geek rant> Trying to generate a soap header using ext/soap in php5 : What I need to create is : … <SOAP-ENV:HEADER> <USER xsi:type=”xsd:string”>myusername</USER> <PASSWORD xsi:type=”xsd:string”>mypasswd</PASSWORD> </SOAP-ENV:HEADER> … What PHP5 is doing : … <SOAP-ENV:HEADER> <ns1:USER xsi:type=”xsd:string”>myusername</ns1:USER> <ns1:PASSWORD xsi:type=”xsd:string”>mypasswd</ns1:PASSWORD> </SOAP-ENV:HEADER> … For whatever reason PHP requires the header parms to have a namespace which unfortunately…
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Site upgrade
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Even Cavemen got hungry
A light-hearted short to break the net silence here. Just got back from vacation. (BTW, Diving in Cozumel rocks!) :
Got any book recommendations?