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Dec 10, 2009

More Old Code at GitHub

I have recovered from an old Iomega Zip disk a few more programs I wrote in the 1997-1998 time frame which may be of some interest: daemon Daemon was originally written for…

Nov 25, 2009

FreeGrep is now at GitHub

I have been learning to use Git, the distributed version control system. I am more than a bit familiar with both CVS and Subversion, and finding Git to be interesting and capable…

Sep 30, 2009

The Financial Advisory Committee has Recommenced

Last night, the Columbia Association’s Financial Advisory Committee held its first meeting of the term and we introduced three new members. Those members have a diverse background and strenghen our expertise in…

Jul 15, 2009

The MTA and Underprovision of Services

As everyone who reads my Twitter knows, I ride the Maryland Transit Administration’s 995 page back and forth from Columbia to DC four days a week. This morning, the bus left Brokenland…

Jul 5, 2009

The Palin Resignation

I watched Donna Brazile on CNN Friday talk about how Palin's resignation is the best thing she can do to prepare for a 2012 presidential campaign. This is, of course, completely false.…

Jun 20, 2009

IRC Memories at Barcamp Baltimore

text need more folks -- bryanl has joined bcbmore -- avdi has joined bcbmore and now more folks say irc again, see what happens :-) It's all in the advertising. bryanl: suggest…

Jun 9, 2009

The Amstrad PC-1512

I have watched the United Kingdom lately because of the electoral turmoil and last week, Brown appointed Sir Alan Sugar to his cabinet. Sir Alan is an interesting character who affected my…

Jun 5, 2009

Transatlantic Coöperation in Financial Regulation

On Monday night, the Atlantic Council of the United States hosted European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services Charlie McCreevy for a discussion on transatlanic coöperation in financial market regulation. I…

Jun 2, 2009

University of Baltimore Blog Continues

The University of Baltimore Blog has reconstituted itself for the summer term and I will still be posting there. The good news is there are more posters and most days will see…

Apr 26, 2009

Thank You

The results are in and my opponent won with a vote of 206 to 164. The final results are reported as 301 to 164, due to the presumptive winner receiving the votes…