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Libertarians and Objectivists like markets because they preserve individual liberty.
Economists like markets because they allocate resources efficiently.

This seems to me to be a fair description of the situation. Anyway, what I want to point out is that these reasons aren’t necessarily always in accordance with each other. A government might interfere with a market in a way that would limit individual liberty, but increase the flow of information.

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02:54:36 PM, Monday 11 August 2003

I got postcards from Tori and Julia! I dance with glee!

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07:21:33 PM, Sunday 10 August 2003

The Web Framework Shootout implements the same simple application (a Wiki, pleasingly enough) using several different Python web frameworks. I need to look at it more closely, for it will provide me with useful information.

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09:58:45 PM, Wednesday 6 August 2003

And there will be a Julia and a Mirabai and a Neil there!

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09:50:00 PM, Wednesday 6 August 2003

Departing
 Alaska Airlines #333
  Depart
   Fri., Aug. 15, 2003  Sacramento, CA (SMF)  6:15 pm
  Arrive
   Fri., Aug. 15, 2003  Seattle, WA (SEA)     7:59 pm 

 Alaska Airlines #2340
  Depart
   Fri., Aug. 15, 2003  Seattle, WA (SEA)     8:41 pm
  Arrive
   Fri., Aug. 15, 2003  Missoula, MT (MSO)   10:59 pm

Returning
 Alaska Airlines #2387
  Depart
   Sun., Aug. 17, 2003  Missoula, MT (MSO)    5:30 pm
  Arrive
   Sun., Aug. 17, 2003  Portland, OR (PDX)    7:14 pm

Alaska Airlines #2497
  Depart
   Sun., Aug. 17, 2003  Portland, OR (PDX)    9:25 pm
  Arrive
   Sun., Aug. 17, 2003  Sacramento, CA (SMF) 10:45 pm

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09:47:34 PM, Wednesday 6 August 2003

I do this regularly. For what it’s worth, I think it’s improved my driving. (Do it in other things, too).

Semi-relatedly, I keep noticing that people who are really good at something tend to be more self-critical about it than people who are only sorta good, or no good at all, at it. Is it that the constant criticism forces one to improve? Or do I just notice the self-criticism more when it isn’t justified? Or does the correlation work out in some other way?

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04:04:03 PM, Wednesday 6 August 2003

zekinskia’s posts in this MetaFilter thread aptly demonstrate why even the emphatically non-Christian should attempt to have some clue about Christianity.

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04:46:27 PM, Tuesday 5 August 2003

Someone’s implemented TrackBack on a LiveJournal-based system. That’s nifty. I wonder if that feature will show up in LiveJournal itself. But anyway, my main reason for posting all this is just to test some of my TrackBack stuff on bloglet, so.

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04:10:01 PM, Tuesday 5 August 2003

I’ve quickly dropped a few logging commands into the bloglet web interface. Which doesn’t affect y‘all directly, of course, but it means I can catch bugs a bit more easily.

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03:47:10 PM, Tuesday 5 August 2003

Three years ago yesterday I started this job.

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09:27:45 PM, Monday 4 August 2003

Google has added a new operator to search for a word or its synonyms, so if you know the general idea you‘re looking for but don’t care about the exact phrasing, it’ll vague the search up for you. Very, very nice.

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08:59:04 PM, Monday 4 August 2003

Lance Arthur: In deference to President Bush’s publicly stated worries concerning the fate of humanity should, gasp, homosexuals be allowed to marry, I thought I would point out just a few of the things that shall surely come to pass if such a horrible, ungodly, menacing action truly occurred. Sure, Canada can marry off anyone it wants to. Next week they’ll probably decide that moose can marry, because that’s where this madness all leads! If two men can marry, than anything can!

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01:30:16 AM, Monday 4 August 2003

I have no idea why I chose to do that now.

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06:23:58 PM, Sunday 3 August 2003

Google search referrer of the day.

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05:51:09 PM, Sunday 3 August 2003

Good software should be stoic: it should not concern itself with things that it cannot control.

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08:42:55 PM, Friday 1 August 2003

Senator Tom Daschle is blogging his travels around South Dakota this month.

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07:01:02 PM, Friday 1 August 2003

Wow. I didn’t think the recall election was going to get any funnier.

[via MetaFilter]

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04:15:00 PM, Friday 1 August 2003

Oh, and Neil, that’ll also work for you. You just have to use
http://www.m14m.net/recent.php?username=neil

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03:41:09 PM, Friday 1 August 2003

All m14m bloglets now have recent activity pages, like the one in my sidebar. To look at one, go to http://www.m14m.net/username/recent. You can also specify how many recent comments you want to list, by going to, for example, /recent?length=50. You can also include your recent activity listing in your sidebar, using this piece of code:
<?php include "recent.php"; ?>
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03:35:28 PM, Friday 1 August 2003

Sarah Hepola: I haven’t heard back about my pitches, but I must be patient. A successful freelancer does not get discouraged. A successful freelancer simply reads MSN. ‘10 White Lies Men Tell Women.’ Ooh, what are those?

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02:59:25 PM, Friday 1 August 2003

The other highlight was seeing Ben Folds beatboxing.

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03:17:16 PM, Thursday 31 July 2003

Michael Tomasky believes that the Democrats can win this election by alienating those who voted for Nader in 2000 in order to win support from those who voted for Gore. I’m… really not even sure where to begin.

[via MetaFilter]

Update: I posted a longer comment there.

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08:59:40 PM, Wednesday 30 July 2003

More than you ever wanted to know about paper sizes, at MetaFilter. The discussion then drifts into the old question of whether traditional units are really more natural than metric, or if it’s just a matter of which one you grow up using. Also interested to see some of the ways metric and traditional units get mixed together in England and Canada—I imagine that will start to happen more and more here, too. (Do we currently use metric consistently for anything other than sizes of plastic drink bottles?)

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03:26:52 PM, Tuesday 29 July 2003

Alan Moore: ‘The answer I always fall back on is to quote Raymond Chandler,’ he says. ‘People said: ‘Raymond, don’t you feel devastated by how Hollywood has destroyed your books?’ And he would take them into his study, point to the bookshelf and say, ‘There they are. Look, they’re fine.’

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02:00:53 PM, Tuesday 29 July 2003

At least you frame the question properly.

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08:48:11 PM, Monday 28 July 2003

A $400 PalmOS-based laptop. Cute!

[via comments on Philip Greenspun’s Weblog]

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01:39:38 PM, Monday 28 July 2003

Arrrrrrr!
Just saw the new pirate movie. Recommended (if any of you still haven’t seen it). And be sure to stick around till the very end, yo.

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04:03:02 AM, Saturday 26 July 2003

Ain’t no party.

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06:09:36 PM, Friday 25 July 2003

A new beta of TrackBack for Radio UserLand is out. This is exciting because it may contain a fix for a bug that I found. So naturally, I’m pinging it now to see if it’s fixed. (Radio users will, of course, find this announcement exciting for entirely different reasons).

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03:56:02 PM, Thursday 24 July 2003

Jason Kottke: I have a soft spot in my ~~heart~~ belly for soups derived from other types of food.

Thank you, Mr. Kottke, for reminding me of the best Penny Arcade news post ever.

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09:14:15 PM, Wednesday 23 July 2003

Come on, now.

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09:06:45 PM, Wednesday 23 July 2003

Today, in the gas station, on the way to work… I saw a Muzak van.

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07:59:14 PM, Wednesday 23 July 2003

Meanwhile, it appears they’ve also got TrackBack working in Radio UserLand now—pretty slick. (And yes, seeing that they’d started on it there is also what inspired me to add it into my own little system here).

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07:12:01 PM, Wednesday 23 July 2003

Now I’ve just about got the other side of this working.

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04:28:01 PM, Wednesday 23 July 2003

If you pay attention to such things, you’ll know that AOL now offers software to let its users have blogs, known as “AOL Journals”. Matt Jones has screenshots of the AOL Journal setup process, and I must say, it’s pretty slick. It looks like they’ve managed to make a quality piece of blogging software that’s still very accessible for non-technical people. The layout selector is quite nice (and I also got a kick out of it ‘cause I’d been toying with doing something like that for Wobble). Blogging by IM is something I want now.

For all I like to laugh at AOL, I have to say: when their technology has affected me at all, it’s only ever been for the better. They may be a big dumb corporation, but they seem to have a habit of funding some very clever things. (I still wouldn’t use the AOL service itself, but then, I’m not who it’s directed at, am I?)

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03:32:52 PM, Wednesday 23 July 2003

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03:31:34 PM, Wednesday 23 July 2003

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