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		<title>Emacs: The Poster Child for Software Bloat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love Emacs. It&#8217;s the editor I grew up with. I&#8217;ve been using it for over 30 years. I don&#8217;t think I could switch to another editor now if I wanted to. There&#8217;s even an excellent GUI port of it &#8230; <a href="http://romkey.com/2012/04/01/emacs-the-poster-child-for-software-bloat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>(digital fingerprint:<br /> fcbe020f30624a362e1555f707ff15d1 (38.107.179.220) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>Whenever I Go Away, I Want to Start Anew&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's a thrill for me in the initial exploration of an idea, the initial design of a piece of software or web site, and in learning how to use new tools or pieces of software to build the thing that I want to build.  

... I don't hate that part of the work but it isn't nearly as interesting to me and it's hard for me to get up the motivation to do it, especially when I have a head full of other ideas to work on.    However, getting over that hump and dealing with the issues that arise as a site begins running and getting users, or a piece of software starts to get used by others - that captures my interest again - maybe not quite as much as the initial phase, but there are new problems and there are always unforeseen developments when other people start using a thing that one person has labored over on their own.  ...  I'm sitting in a hotel today having a very nice relaxing day away from home, and thankfully today's idea for something new is blocked by a lack of good domain names for it (rather than a surplus of self-control).  <a href="http://romkey.com/2009/05/13/whenever-i-go-away-i-want-to-start-anew/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>(digital fingerprint:<br /> fcbe020f30624a362e1555f707ff15d1 (38.107.179.220) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>Showing a Column as a UNIX Timestamp in MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>romkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While MySQL has quite an assortment of date and time formats which it supports, I usually find it most convenient to store timestamps as an INT and just put the UNIX seconds since the epoch value in there. ...  A drawback is that sometimes when I'm working with the database by hand it's annoying to see the timestamps as big numbers - sometimes it would be very helpful to see them as dates and times.  ...  The "FROM_UNIXTIME()" function will interpret a numeric column's value as a UNIX seconds-from-the-epoch value and show it as a date and timestamp.    Using it I can easily do things like:    SELECT URL, FROM_UNIXTIME(Timestamp) FROM AccessLog;    and see it as:    +---------------------------+--------------------------+ &#124; URL                       &#124; FROM_UNIXTIME(timestamp) &#124; +---------------------------+--------------------------+ &#124; explore/users/94          &#124; 2008-10-05 22:49:39      &#124; +---------------------------+--------------------------+    rather than    +---------------------------+------------+ &#124; URL                       &#124; timestamp  &#124; +---------------------------+------------+ &#124; explore/users/94          &#124; 1223261379 &#124; +---------------------------+------------+    <a href="http://romkey.com/2008/10/05/showing-a-column-as-a-unix-timestamp-in-mysql/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>(digital fingerprint:<br /> fcbe020f30624a362e1555f707ff15d1 (38.107.179.220) )</small>]]></description>
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		<title>MacOS X DVDs &#8211; Versions and Saving a Little Money on Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>romkey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family pack is licensed for use for up to five machines in one household, and lists for $199, a pretty good deal for staying legal at less than the cost of two single user licenses. ...  At the time I wrote this, they were charging  $26 less than list for the single user edition  and  $44.51 less than list for the family pack , both with free shipping.  ...  You should be forewarned that, in my experience, the restore DVD that comes with a computer will only work with that computer or class of computers. ...  Amazon also has a pretty good deal on Leopard Server:  $104.51 off the 10 user version  (normal list price $499) and  $168.46 off the unlimited user version  (normal list price $999).  <a href="http://romkey.com/2008/10/05/macos-x-dvds-versions-and-saving-a-little-money-on-them/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>(digital fingerprint:<br /> fcbe020f30624a362e1555f707ff15d1 (38.107.179.220) )</small>]]></description>
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