Really, it is a little encouraging that after so many years of staring at browsers, I can still thoroughly entertain myself on a Sunday afternoon by reading the homepages of total strangers. However, if it’s still winter, a north-eastern transplant to Southern California does have to be careful when reading accounts of wool coats, comforting [...]

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Hey, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference is in San Diego next week. I live in San Diego – but I can’t even afford the deeply discounted student admissions. I’d go to see the microformats session, since I’m interested in seeing a good citation microformat develop. If anyone I know or should know is in town [...]

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I’ve just put up the website for my current project (to be part of my Ph.D. dissertation work): LENS, a framework for program information manipulation that presents a uniform interface to selective user and automated queries about many types of program metrics, including success and diagnostic information about compiler optimizations and code generation. I’m not [...]

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Maybe it’s a little dramatic to think of it this way, but it has seemed like I have two computing personalities – the one that writes here about Macs, user-app programming and interfaces, goes to WWDC and hangs out with indie developers, and then the other one that actually gets paid – a Ph.D. candidate [...]

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I’ve decided to switch over to MarsEdit, and as a result I will now most likely stop maintaining Blapp, my simple OS X blosxom weblog editor. It’s been a lot of fun through seven versions, starting with my original post about it, to Rael Dornfest (the author of blosxom) picking it up and the v2 [...]

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I’ve been behind the times on weblog technology for a while now, so when I noticed that pair had a pre-packaged WordPress install I could use on my account, I thought I’d take the opportunity to move from Blapp, which I love because it is my own code, to MarsEdit, which does more and doesn’t [...]

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