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Spoiler ettiquette reminder

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular whose blog I read, or who I know reads this blog, but more of a general comment prompted by the reaction of a friend who just received a huge Battlestar Galactica season 3 (the current season) spoiler on Digg: Read More...
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2007 03 6

Devin

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Stop doing that to the language!

Words mean things. If I have one word such as "request" that functions both as a noun and a verb, and I have another word such as "ask" that is a synonym for it as a verb, that does not mean that "ask" is a synonym for "request" Read More...
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2007 02 13

Devin

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An amusing typo

I just discovered an amusing typo in a technical document. Instead of a section on prerequisites , it has a section on perquisites . Okay, so it's not earth-shaking, but I got a much-needed chuckle. Now off to brew a pot of peppermint herbal tea to Read More...
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2006 10 3

Devin

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RSS feed glitch

Whoa! I just now saw that folks on the LJ feed (possibly on the RSS feed) got to see the Firefly review I did all over again. Sorry about that; it wasn't intentional! (I was just fixing a couple of transcription errors that kept the hyperlink to Nick's Read More...
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2006 08 15

Devin

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