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Archive for November, 2006

usbcell (again)

Monday, November 27th, 2006

usbcell is now available in the US. w00t!

a real plan for spam

Thursday, November 9th, 2006

Spam sucks. It especially sucks for me because:

I can’t punt by using gmail or hosted gmail–I need to host phauna.org email myself for reasons not related to spam.

As a bit of an idealist, I like to think I shouldn’t have to hide my email address from the world, so it’s posted in a number [...]

political video night

Monday, November 6th, 2006

here’s some of what i’m watching on this eve of the elections:
a quick take on the military commissions act of 2006
Michael Badnarik on the Constitution
Debate on the military commissions act
warrantless wiretapping discussion

what’s wrong with this picture?

Monday, November 6th, 2006

let () =
  Arg.parse specl anonfun usage_msg;
  match List.rev !anonargs with
  | [] -> Arg.usage specl usage_msg; exit 1
  | args ->
     begin
       match !conf with None -> () | Some conf -> do_config conf;
       let string = "world" in
       printf "hello %s\n%!" string;
     end

Review of Practical OCaml

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

At work, we’re always interested in interesting OCaml developments. This is why we were very excited when a new book on OCaml came out, in english no less! (The O’Reilly OCaml book was originally published in French, but now there’s an english translation online). The prospects were great. How did it [...]