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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. I start a new job in 2 days. I'm psyched. Sat Dec 31 20:35:08 CT 2005. Sent a link to this movie about how beer is made. A very interesting tour of the Anchor Steam brewery in San Francisco. On another note, Andy and I made a nice lager earlier this year that tasted amazingly like Anchor Steam beer. Don. Oh, the shame.
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. Dezi 0.2.4 released. Happy to announce release of Dezi 0.2.4 with spelling suggestion feature. Wed Oct 17 22:42:28 CT 2012. Finally got back to the Python Dezi client. I started several months ago. All tests passing now so I'm calling this the 0.001000 release. Fri Aug 24 13:46:37 CT 2012. Dezi, now with Xapian backend.
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. MadPlay CentOS 7 RPM. Discovered today I needed an RPM for the madplay cli binary for CentOS and one did not yet exist. So I built my first RPM today, thanks to an existing (if dated) .spec file I found. And here's the spec file. I based it on. Wed May 20 16:38:47 CT 2015. Extending a VirtualBox disk image on CentOS 5.
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. As Professor Dijkstra put it: "Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.". Via Audrey Tang TED talk. Mon Apr 28 08:57:35 CT 2014. Busy week on CPAN. Mon Mar 3 15:17:25 CT 2014. No, I'm not having one. But chromatic is.
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. In this area you'll find other things I'm working on and/or interested in. But have I mentioned my beautiful boys. Mon Jun 29 19:54:17 CT 2009. Managing a household of library users. The Lawrence Public Library. To aggregate all five accounts into a single report and automatically renew any that are coming due. I've b...
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. I rarely have time to read these days, but when I do I read The New Yorker. Ok, enough plaudits. I'm starting this new category to take note of pieces I want to remember later. File under new yorker/. Fri Feb 26 20:01:35 CT 2010. I enjoyed this essay. File under new yorker/. Wed Mar 12 09:33:31 CT 2014. My work collea...
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. Love those books. Here's what I've been reading lately. Tue Dec 21 14:50:00 CT 2004. Happy Charlotte's Web Day. Makes it a tradition. Sun Sep 7 10:53:08 CT 2014. Mon Sep 9 12:05:37 CT 2013. I am reading Charlotte's Web. So I hereby declare September 7 to be Charlotte's Web Day. Here are some quotes I love. That's a me...
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. You actually read this stuff? Let me know. add a comment. a new feature as of today. Mon Dec 20 14:42:51 CT 2004. I know it's not a new idea, but a MPR. Start a foriegn war. Can't deal with corporate feudalism and the growing class gap? We all do it (I'm all about distraction). What bothers me is that the people w...
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. Saint Paul, MN. 750 F (23.9 C). Aug 31 2016, 1:53 pm CDT. Wed Aug 31 14:03:03 2016. All News - MPR News. 1,000 Words: Sympathy from a Packers fan. Judge orders Mpls. metal shredder's shutdown over pollution. The Return on My Investment. The Lighter Side of the Slaughter at Charlie Hebdo. Dezi 0.4.0 released.
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Peknet : an eddy in the bit stream. Peknet is Peter E Karman musing on technology. Politics, religion, books. Spam hall of shame. St paul bar tour. Proud member of the. 2005 peknet dot com. It was shortly after 9/11, in 2001, that I was listening incessantly to Gillian Welch's Time (The Revelator). Recording. I had been listening to Blind Willie Johnson quite a bit prior to that, and so I immediately made the titular connection. The songs about Ruination Day. Thu Apr 14 09:19:49 CT 2016. But it's taken m...
