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Here’s my rundown of the ways it can play out. Print it out and play along at home!

I figured out how to connect my iPod at work without iTunes deleting all my music: hold Shift and Control while connecting the iPod. Obviously.

I can’t find this jewel anywhere in the Apple documentation. iLife = iCrap.

References: A B

Tonight I saw the most impressive display of road barrier blinkenlights I have ever seen. Sawhorses (not barrels) allow greater blinkenlight density. In total I’d guess there were about 100 sawhorses in a 10′ by 10′ area, nearly all of them with operational blinkenlights.

School Won’t Stop Playing 1996 Hanson Song “MMMBop” Until Students Give Enough to Katrina Relief.

This would definitely encourage me to be generous.

I’ve changed “LARG gas” to be the highest price I’ve seen in my day-to-day driving for regular gas. (Before it was premium gas).

The expensive stations that will get quoted in LARG gas are typically 10-20 cents more expensive than where I actually buy gas.

sanjosegasprices claims the national average gas price is now only one cent less than the California average price. I’d guess this is because California has some local refining capacity.

this one’s for Adrian:

Extreme Makeover, Iraqi Home Edition

Sometimes I get excited about the idea of writing a program that is similar to a spreadsheet, but is less “fuzzy”.

Then I realize that the program has already been written, and is called Matlab (alternatively octave), and if I converted the I/O timing to use octave, I would be stuck doing it until the end of days.

Maybe the administration should be as optimistic in estimating social security’s solvency as they are in projecting tax revenues.

There was a nice sunset tonight, but now it is gone and you can’t see it.

I am surprised that, other than the commercial version, nobody has integrated SSL with VNC.