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Archive for January, 2006

Anniversary of Guy Fawkes’ death

( Freedom )

Guy Fawkes was executed 400 years ago today. Had his plot succeeded, British history would probably have taken a much different path.

Technolust - Wireless sleep-cycle based alarm clock

HipTechBlog, a site I should probably not visit if I want to keep something in my bank account, has an article about the
aXbo Alarm Clock, which monitors your sleep cycles via a wristband to wake you in the optimal moment in the sleep cycle, making you feel refreshed and clear-headed.
Bloody expensive, and who […]

Relationships and contracts

Last Friday I was out having lunch with a group of friends. There was a cadre of women in the table next to us (along with an older, pot-bellied guy who looked like an eunuch), discussing quite openly male and female behavior. One of the women kept making the point that infidelity […]

On dollarization

Last year in Costa Rica inflation was almost 15%, the largest percentage of that due devaluation: a dollar was worth c457.58 when the year started and c495.65 when it ended. There’s an almost 10% drop just because we’re using a currency that allows our central bank to print out new Monopoly bills. Recent […]

The world as we know it

So the White House wants to pass a law that basically amounts to legalizing the illegal espionage they’re conducting on their own citizens.

Bush told a White House news conference that the domestic spying program “is designed to protect civil liberties” and declared that “it’s necessary.”

Funny how they have to break your rights in order to […]

On a tangent: Looking for an ASP.Net programmer

We’re looking to hire an ASP.Net developer for a long-term project. We’re a small team and want to keep growing by adding dedicated, team-oriented people with a sense of humor and a deep love of personal freedom.
You must have experience with C#, Javascript, DHTML and XSLT 1.0 to create modular and reusable components. Familiarity with […]

Is your cat mind-controlling you?

I’ve always been disturbed by parasites that can take over your body and alter your physiology and behavior in subtle ways. Wasps, for instance, lay eggs on the bodies of caterpillars, which then alter the caterpillar’s behavior so that instead of eventually turning into pupa, it continues eating until it bursts with the wasp’s […]

Offline

Offline life has been was much interesting lately. I’ll be back later.