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Entries from March 2007

My Restaurant

March 30th, 2007 · Comments Off · Main

A coworker and I used to eat lunch out somewhat frequently, and we developed a list of requirements for restaurants.  Most of them are Rules for Waiters.  I wrote them down and subsequently lost the list, but I’ll update this as I remember them.

The Recovery Zone:  There shall be an 8″ area on the outside [...]

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Decision Making

March 28th, 2007 · Comments Off · Main

After reading Joel Spolsky’s “Choices = Headaches” article, I listened to Prof. Barry Schwartz’s presentation “Too Many Choices: Who Suffers and Why,” which was sufficiently interesting enough for me to read his book “The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less.”  Read the article, listen to the MP3, and read the book.
Being confronted with too [...]

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SMTP References

March 14th, 2007 · Comments Off · Computers, Main

The two handiest email / SMTP references are:

Daniel J. Bernstein’s Mail Reference, particularly the SMTP Reference.  Online HTML.  Free.
“Internet Email Protocols: A Developer’s Guide,” by Kevin Johnson.  This one is pre-RFC2821, but excellent nonetheless.  Currently ~$80 used.  Long out of print.

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Wild Orchid

March 6th, 2007 · Comments Off · Main, Subtitle Goofs

Another dumb movie. 

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Two Moon Junction

March 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off · Main, Subtitle Goofs

I hadn’t seen Two Moon Junction in 15 years, and I don’t remember it being such a dorky movie.  Couldn’t make it all the way through.
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