memories for Aug 23

2008

2008 Aug 23
8 minutes

I'm not sure where I pulled the number '8' from, but it may be from pathology class from the second year of med school. 8 minutes is the amount of time you've got before the lack of oxygen starts causing permanent damage (such that if you do manage to restart the heart and/or reopen the blocked vessel, you may actually cause even more damage than what has already been done—so-called reperfusion injury.)

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2006

2006 Aug 23
demarcation is futile

I’ve been experimenting with other blog engines, namely, Blogger and Typo. I really dig Typo, but unfortunately, I can’t get it to run on my Dreamhost account. There are instructions on how to get it to work but the code gods are not with me, I guess. And since today is my last day of vacation, it’s pretty unlikely that I’ll get it running any time soon.

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2003

2003 Aug 23
the gender genie

A little script that supposedly is able to tell the gender of the author of a scrap of text.

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2003 Aug 23
embedded markup considered harmful

Back in the day when the specs were new, RSS was atrocious, and no one could parse it. One of the things that caused aggregators to choke was embedded markup. Although in all honesty, I never did understand what the problem was.

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1999

1999 Aug 23
My Training As a Wizard — Episode IV

Why do I kid myself? I feel like my Fate is pretty much sealed, yet I'd rather not accept it.

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