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Merriam-Webster Top-10 Favorite Word Quotations #4: Wit “Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.” – Dorothy Parker, interview in Paris Review, 1956 #5: The Smallest Ideas “He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.” – Abraham Lincoln, quoted in Frederick Trevor Hill’s Lincoln [ READ MORE ]
Wishing you all happy holidays[ READ MORE ]
I came across a reference to http://www.microspotting.com in an e-mail at work the other day and was amused. If you ever wonder about a day in a life of a Microsoft geek check out the amusing interviews and photos! Also, check out Ariel’s Photostream on Flickr for some great shots of Seattle life generally[ READ MORE ]
HRESULT WINAPI WallStBailOut(…) { return SCARD_W_CACHE_ITEM_TOO_BIG; } [ READ MORE ]
Pop quiz vocab hotshots: What’s the difference between these three words? Ascribe Imbue Impute I had to look them up recently while reading though a whitepaper. As I expected, the author was incorrectly ascribing the semantics of the word impute to the word imbue. Anyway, I had to look it up to be sure so [ READ MORE ]
My friend Adam kicked the Yahoo habbit and now works for social networking startup Bebo.com. I created a Bebo homepage for myself so I could check out the service and kick the tires. Also, I thought it would be useful to have a web-based hub to help me manage all my global social interactions. [ READ MORE ]
John from work writes in IM: The Yankees beat the Red Sox, and Seattle beat the Yankees. So Seattle is better than the Red Sox? A few links I sent to John Syllogism on Wikipedia Square of Opposition on Wikipedia Fallacies on Nizcor Project (thanks Matt!)[ READ MORE ]
Welcome to my v2 blog. After years of relying on a bug-riddled self-hosted PHP script and MySQL for blogging, I’ve finally decided to let someone else do the heavy lifting of keeping the infrastructure up-to-date. My v1 blog, http://chrisrussell.net, will remain online until I figure out a convenient way to extract the content and take [ READ MORE ]
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