Archives for March 8, 2009
How to make your potential customers like you.
Posted by Greg Laden on March 8, 2009 Do you see an ad floating over this blog post (or any other posts on this blog)? If you do, and you like having this ad obscure what you are trying to see, let the marketing division of the company who’s ad it is know. Send your emails here. Or maybe you don’t like it.…
Calling All Texans
Posted by Greg Laden on March 8, 2009 Well, not ALL of you. Just the ones who also happen to be Scientists. Texans only, please. If you are not a Texan Scientist do not read this blog post.
The Lion, The Tent, and the Anthropologist
Posted by Greg Laden on March 8, 2009 … continued form the previous Congo Memoir … I’ve mentioned lions before. There was the first time I encountered one in the wild when a lioness came within a couple of feet of me one dark night while we were lost in the savanna. There was the time Biker and I nearly walked into a…
The Bourne Supremacy
Posted by Greg Laden on March 8, 2009 The Bourne Shell, that is … … we speak to Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell, or sh. In the early 1970s Bourne was at the Computer Laboratory in Cambridge, England working on a compiler for ALGOL68 as part of his PhD work in dynamical astronomy. This work paved the way for him to…
Whatever You Like (Cells Parody)
Posted by Greg Laden on March 8, 2009 This reminds me of Lou Reed. Not sure why. The voice, I think.
Cool Linux
Posted by Greg Laden on March 8, 2009 I have a bunch of designers at my job, and they all carry around an apple. No not the fruit, you know the vastly overpriced and over-hyped electronics brand. These guys think they are so cool with there notebooks running extremely expensive designer software. I think this is somewhat of a problem with Linux. While…
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