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Into Your Light

Posted on October 13, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

Some nice passionate playing. The song is Into Your Light by Leaves’ Eyes performed by Vika Yermolyeva.

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Cleaning Up Jammed Subversion Transactions

Posted on August 26, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

There was a very odd server failure while a big Subversion commit was in process. (The ISP hosting the server is kind of flaky.) To clean up the leftover files from the failed transaction, I did this: $ svnadmin lstxns … Continue reading →

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Human Life Value

Posted on July 21, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles
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Old But Funny

Posted on July 8, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

Ah the 80′s… big hair, Dr. Demento, and the Frantics. Ran across an old skit from the 1980′s that brought back memories. Somebody synchronized clips from Naurto to give a little video to the skit.

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ØMQ (ZeroMQ) and a Bit of Philosophy

Posted on June 24, 2011 by James Reuben Knowles

While watching the SLLUG May presentation on SALT by Thomas S. Hatch, I was intrigued by his reference to ØMQ (ZeroMQ). This is a fascinating “intelligent” networking library, but some of the philosophy I found interesting. In the guide it … Continue reading →

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２００７年５月２８日：戦没者追悼記念日

Posted on May 29, 2007 by James Reuben Knowles

Edit ２００７年６月７日：Second attempt. 今日は、戦没者追悼記念日です。アメリカの重要な祝日です。その目的は戦没者尊ぶことです。私達の伝統は墓地へ芥子と旗を持って行くことです。芥子は戦没者の血の象徴です。 沢山の人々は花を持って行くことで亡くなった最愛の人を思い出します。 英語： Today is Memorial Day. It is one of America’s important holidays. Its purpose is to honour soldiers who have died in service. It is our tradition to take poppies and flags to the cemetery. … Continue reading →

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