Monthly Archives: January 2008

Plaid Looks Good to Me

January 20, 2008 – 3:37 pm

I rarely end up actually liking a band more after seeing them perform live. In fact, it is mostly the case that I see a performer live and can’t bring myself to listen to them again for weeks or more. There are a few groups that actually increase my interest in them. This is especially [...]

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Bizarre Clipboard Problem

January 9, 2008 – 11:47 am

This has happened to me a couple of times using TextMate (probably has occurred
elsewhere without consequences that I noticed). Every once in a long while, I will not be able to copy text into TextMate. I do this on a regular basis to analyze XML and JSON responses from the server for the application I [...]

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Happy Birthday Karel Čapek (and robots)

January 9, 2008 – 10:58 am

Today is the birthday of Karel Čapek, who is attributed with popularizing the term “robot,” which he introduced in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (or R.U.R.). He gives credit to his brother Josef for inventing the word, which has its roots in the Slovak word robota which translates literally to “serf labor.” Čapek is [...]

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