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John Lennon. “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” [Quotes of the Day]

today’s featured superhero: Edsger Dijkstra. Raph has a beautiful rememberance of Dijkstra.Dijkstra was an intellectual father to me. Twenty or so years ago, my father… [Aaron Swartz: The Weblog]

Is this a new spam tactic?

We require server with a minimum of 32 ip per server preferably red hat linux 7.2 or higher and 32 ip. 512 mg ram… 800+ MHz. we would use the 32 ip, and change them every 20 minutes. Thus rotating/dynamic IP At the moment we would probably hire 2 servers right away then (have order for 6 more), we will utilizes you services & if found satisfactory then we will extend our contract for a longer time/duration. We are on a budget but have continuous & long term work for the selected group/candidate, to be selected you need to take into consideration several factors like – Price of ur service Uptime Bandwidth Location of ur server (prefer outside US) Customer service – response time We are open to suggestions so if you wanna/can propose any other feature or price slab/structure for this project let us know. MassonInc

This is a bid request from today’s Rent-A-Coder list.

I subscribed to Rent-A-Coder a few months ago, which sends out emails every day with project bid requests. Most of them are for small projects that aren’t worth my time now, but may be useful when my contract with Absolute software ends in a few months, if I don’t find a new project right away.

Adam Atlas, a brilliant young hacker, has joined the staff of MacMegasite. I met Adam at MacHack and was very impressed by his skill. His hack, an RSS news reader, took first place in the “yoot” division and second place overall. I think he has a lot to offer MacMegasite.

It looks like Maire Brennan decided to follow her younger sister, who chaged the spelling of her name from Eithne to Enya, and use a phonetic spelling for her name.

Signs of Intelligence: MLK’s Right-Hand Man was Gay. Here’s an excellent editorial neatly rebuffing those in Miami-Dade who claim MLK would have despised the gay civil rights movement… [Morons Dot Org]

We have lots of lizards here. I saw this critter outside my window & snapped lots of pictures until I was able to get this one.

Feds balk when laptops walk. The Justice Department chastises the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration for “a lack of accountability” in keeping track of laptops. At least 400 are missing, lost or stolen. [CNET News.com]

Hmm… if they were using ComputracePlus they could cut down on theft & locate the missing laptops.

I just got back from the optometrist. He told me I have nothing to worry about. A few days I suddenly developed a “floater” that looks like a bunch of dark fibers floating around in my right eye. He said it will probably go away or become less noticeable after a few weeks, and there’s no sign of a detached retina or any other problems.

I discovered that MetroWerks’ standard libraries don’t understand Unix-style paths in CFM projects. When I call fopen("/Library/Preferences/com.absolute.settings","w+b") it creates a file called /Library/Preferences/com.absolute.settings in the current directory. When I converted my project to Mach-O, it worked correctly.

I should probably be using CFPreferences to get the proper path, although my settings file isn’t a standard XML preferences file.