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A Rug-Rat Update
Dashiell continues to grow – weighing in at 12.8lbs (clothed) yesterday. We tried a cloth diaper for the first time last night, before going to bed. We changed a [soaked] cloth diaper for the first time upon waking up. We also changed the [soaked] outfit he was wearing. If it also soaked the bed sheets…
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Life is Good
Dashiell Robert Kieffer 8.44 lbs, 21″, Born March 27, 9:54pm. Life’s good, friends. Life is very good.
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The TARP Volley
Congress votes to spend ,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars) in taxpayer money on the bailout plan. AIG gets a hefty chunk of that – 0,000,000,000, or about ,600 per U.S. household. AIG pays out 5,000,000 in bonuses (~.46 per household) to executives. The media fails to put the proper context on this and creates a political…
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Prototype bind() Performance
[UPDATE: 2009-03-11 – Noticed a bug in the test code and had to redo all the tests.] [UPDATE: 2009-03-11 – Refactored test code and included trunk variant from Tobie Langel (core Prototype team member)] [UPDATE: 2009-03-12 – Added tests for Kangax’s solution, added “Improved” test – a hybrid of Kangax+Broofa] I recently proposed an alternate…
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Truths Lost
The recent revelations emerging from the CIA about the 92 tapes they destroyed – tapes that documented their interrogations of two Al Qaida terrorist suspects – evoke a hard-to-explain anger. It is an emotional reaction that comes from somewhere primal, and I don’t completely understand it. I had this same reaction upon hearing of the…