http://chaos.net.nz/mt/ en-us 2005-01-20T09:12:22-05:00 http://chaos.net.nz/mt/archives/000007.html The observant will note that I have removed all comments. The ratio of actual posts to comment spam was hovering in the region of 1:10,000. Waaay too much trouble for such a tiny gain. Perhaps I'll experiment with comments again... Personal cody 2005-01-20T09:12:22-05:00 http://chaos.net.nz/mt/archives/000006.html Want to make a nifty brochure using LaTeX and the leaflet package? Of course you do. Find that it's overwriting each individual panel of the brochure on top of each other? I did. The fix for me was to change... Technical Hints cody 2004-12-04T19:56:51-05:00 http://chaos.net.nz/mt/archives/000005.html I ran across a fairly boring and somewhat slanted article on education policy, but it did have this gem of a paragraph: Critics also worry about the studies left out of the reading panel's scope. Of 100,000 studies first culled... Politics cody 2004-02-02T13:28:30-05:00 http://chaos.net.nz/mt/archives/000004.html Sorry for the silence. A combination of the university year starting and some computer problems has kept me rather busier than I'd like. (Speaking of computer problems, I really can't recommend the customer service of Newegg enough.)... Personal cody 2004-02-02T13:24:29-05:00 http://chaos.net.nz/mt/archives/000003.html I have been, at times, quite scathing of the Department of Homeland Security, and the various measures which have been taken to secure the US. The funny thing is, however, that if the US's security measures were really that weak,... Politics cody 2004-01-12T16:48:44-05:00 http://chaos.net.nz/mt/archives/000002.html In contrast to the last log entry, I thought I might mention a more positive development. Thoman Friedman writes in the New York Times about religious tolerance in Turkey. It's quite encouraging, and I'd encourage people to read it: War... Politics cody 2004-01-11T16:54:38-05:00 http://chaos.net.nz/mt/archives/000001.html Some people will have already heard about Kilroy-Silk's little problem - for those who haven't, he said some nasty (but true) generalizations about current Arab states, and got in a bit of trouble over it. it seems Kilroy-Silk is not... Politics cody 2004-01-11T16:48:42-05:00