Coraline - Neil Gaiman (Audio Book)

Oh my twitchy witchy girl, I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge, and I give you bowls of ice cream, I give you lots of kisses, and I give you lots of hugs, but I never give you sandwiches with bugs, in.

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The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger (Audio Book)

I wrote and deleted a few sentences of adulation for this book. I deleted it because I found myself sounding like Holden Caulfield or just being phoney as hell. So here is a quote I found in my diary from 1993:

I like to be somewhere at least where you can see a few girls around once in a while, even if they're only scratching their arms or blowing their noses or even just giggling or something.

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World War Two Timeline Project

I have got my new Google Timemap based mashup project to a version 0.9ish level of functionality:

World War Two Timeline Project

I still have a lot of data to enter, but the framework is there and is an adequate proof of concept.

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Missing Patrick O'Brian Data

While working on some new data for the Surgeon's Mate I discovered, to my horror, that when I had moved my data model from the old pathalogical per-ship approach to a more sensible per-book version, I lost some data. I thought I had been pretty methodical about moving each of the 4835 map data points from the old system to the new one.

I have all the old data backed up, so when I noticed one of my favorite quotes from HMS Surprise was missing, I was able to write a script (thanks Python) to do an exhaustive compare between the new data and the old. I found my missing quote and a few others besides:

'What were you saying about the Hellespont?' he asked.
'How wide is it?'
'Why, not above a mile or so - point-blank range from either side.'
'The next time we go up the Mediterranean,' said Stephen, 'I shall swim it.'

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Cantabile 2.0

A colleague of mine just released Cantabile 2.0. If you are interested in Virtual Studio Technology Instruments (VST) you should check it out.

VST aside, this thing is a kick ass example of a custom built, high performance, Ribbon based UI

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