Month: August 2015
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African safari
The local ice cream parlour knows its stuff. They call this creation “African safari”. Very good on a hot day like today.
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Watch “Tom Lehrer – The Vatican Rag – fabulous version – LIVE FILM From Copenhagen in 1967” on YouTube
An old friend of mine introduced me to Tom Lehrer when I was in college. I’ve loved his work ever since even though it’s quite dated now. This one still cracks me up.
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Delete files older than
It is just one of those things that as an admin, you sometimes come across. There’s a directory somewhere that fills up with clutter. Every day, programs dump temporary files there or users upload stuff and before long, there are thousands of files of debris and cruft. How do you keep this directory neat and…
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Asking why
One of my former bosses once took me aside after a meeting to tell me something that quite frankly baffled me. He let me know that certain people had complained that I always made them explain their reasons for asking something. I told him that if I wasn’t asking why they wanted something, I could…
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A wonderful accident
Back in 1993, Dutch broadcaster VPRO produced a 7 part documentary series entitled “A wonderful accident” (“Een schitterend ongeluk”). It featured eminent scientists/philosophers Oliver Sacks, Rupert Sheldrake, Daniel C. Dennett, Stephen Toulmin, Stephen J. Gould and Freeman Dyson. The series dealt with ethics in life science and what the 6 interviewees considered to be the…