Fresca
Posted on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 @ 11:15 am
Filed Under Army Career, Stories, Vietnam
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As explanations go, that raises more questions than it answers.
A Dabbler’s Powerbook: finding my way
Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2003 @ 11:40 am
Filed Under Computing, Macintosh, POPfile
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When I wasn't shopping this weekend, I was trying to move past the "what a neat toy" phase with my new laptop. OS X is enough like XP to be familiar, and enough different to be both annoying and fascinating. That's been covered elsewhere; I'll likely leave it alone....
Progress: slow changes
Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2003 @ 11:20 pm
Filed Under CityDesk, Code, Dabbler
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Spent more of the day than I'd intended reworking the site's index pages; first I had to figure out how to code the changes, then there was a lot of manual labor involved in implementing those changes. Most of the time was spent moving files.
Pepys: of diaries and bureaucracies
Posted on Monday, December 1, 2003 @ 7:42 am
Filed Under Bureaucrats, Readings
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Pepys was a delightful diarist, and worth reading for all sorts of reasons. One which (naturally) appeals to me is that he was a professional bureaucrat in a time when bureaucracies were new to European government. Bureaus were small, too; they seem to have run the Royal Navy with just a handful of clerks. (I seem to be ignoring the admirals....) Part of the fun when I read Pepys is watching him feel his way around the organizational issues.
