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My Gatorade Attacked Me And All I Got Was… the thirst quenching of a lifetime?

Posted on August 15, 2007 by bkjones

I just want to ask the folks who do the marketing for Gatorade to stop coming up with beverage names that border on being downright threatening. No, really. I went into the refrigerator to look for something to drink just now, and way in the back I noticed a bottle of something I’d never seen…

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My first interview

Posted on July 12, 2007 by bkjones

I was interviewed by Tony Mobily of Free Software Magazine! You can see the interview here. Also, if you’re tired of Slashdot and Digg, Tony also works on Free Software Daily.

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Python Magazine Lives

Posted on July 3, 2007 by bkjones

I have a confession to make: For the past 6 weeks, I’ve been leading a secret double life. By day, I’m a mild mannered system/network/database admin in academia. I also write some PHP, Perl, and Python code. By night, however, I’m an author and editor. My latest project is bigger than most. In fact, it’s…

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Winner of the first fortnightly No Bueno(tm) Award: Flickr.com

Posted on June 13, 2007 by bkjones

I occasionally make up words. I haven’t ever blogged them. I think the last one I made up was “Frauthentic” – a mix of “fraudulent” and “authenticity”. I use that term to describe things that come out of places like Pottery Barn that are supposed to look aged, vintage, distressed… you know. Like they come…

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family.append(daughter)

Posted on May 31, 2007 by bkjones

So, I took some time off starting last Wednesday. My daughter (and first-born child) was born on Thursday, May 24. It’s a completely overwhelming experience. Oh sure, I was like a lot of other guys, thinking I’d pass out at the sight of a baby being born, thinking it would be really cool to have…

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Using TRUNCATE to empty a PostgreSQL database

Posted on May 16, 2007May 14, 2008 by bkjones

This is not something that’s any big hack or secret, but emptying a database of all data without dropping the structure along with it is one of those tasks that I do just often enough in my development work to be annoying. If you ask me, there should just be a big ol’ “EMPTY” statement…

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Freebase: Your database is ready!

Posted on May 13, 2007May 14, 2008 by bkjones

This is going to be really frickin’ cool. There’s just no other way to put it. Maybe I’m a little too much of a data geek, because I can’t seem to sit still since receiving my email letting me know that Freebase is now in alpha, and the account I requested months ago can now…

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Anniversary: 4 Months, 0 Cigarettes

Posted on May 1, 2007 by bkjones

My quit date was January 1st, 2007. I haven’t had a smoke since. I *have* had the occasional cigar, but I never finish those, and they’re a rare pleasure. I can’t commit to smoking something for over an hour. That’s just too much, and it reminds me of one of the reasons I hate smoking:…

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Google Calendar Syncing

Posted on March 20, 2007 by bkjones

So, I’m kinda tired of trying to find a solution to this. What I want is a non-commercial, freely available application (NOT service) that will sync bidirectionally between Google Calendar and Apple iCal, Evolution, and whatever Mozilla calls its calendar today (Sunbird?). I’ve used Spanning Sync, which worked well enough, but I never liked that…

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Still updating old links

Posted on March 8, 2007 by bkjones

I recently imported a bunch of old blog entries from my old Blogger blog, and there are some old broken links in those old posts. As I find them, I’m fixing them. For example, I just saw in my logs that someone clicked a link to pics of my flooring project, but the link had…

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