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short Software and Programming

What the Hex?

What the Hex?: If you never wrote HTML, this will be pretty cryptic; if you have, this is pretty addictive.

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short Software and Programming

Quote about names and software

People whose names break my system are weird outliers. They should have had solid, acceptable names, like 田中太郎

from Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.

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Oddities short

1001 rules for my unborn son

Let’s get some things straight before I get old and uncool: 1001 rules for my unborn son, a tumblelog

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Blather short

Love and War

Suzie, who lives just outside Shderot, has been posting to her blog at TheMarker Cafe.

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Blather short

Paul McAuley: How Not To Write A Short Story

6) It’s important to get the first page absolutely right. Don’t be afraid to rewrite it 1000 times. Did I say page? I meant sentence.

Earth and other unlikely worlds: How Not To Write A Short Story