Yo, a bird pooped on my face today. I was walking under a tree with a bunch of pigeons in it, thinking to myself how much they sounded like Beeboobeep from Thumb Wars. I was making the sound and everything - "beep boop beep!", and all of a sudden, poop on my glasses!

The nice thing is, my first reaction was to laugh. I'm glad I reacted that way. I think it shows my character . Much worse things have happened to me, you know?

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OSNews: Interview with Microsoft's Zac Woodall: "Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more."

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I've been meaning to share my thoughts on blogging and probably personal web publishing in general lately. I've held off until I have time to write a bunch and formulate my thoughts more. For now though I'll link to this from John Robb which gives a relatively extreme view. Whenever I do write what I'm planning to write I may link back to this.

While we're at it, this is a good place to put a link to CMS Watch's interview with Dave Winer.

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New design for ferite.org. Looks good.

Also for smallscript.net, but I care less about that.

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Holy crap, Greg Bahnsen was so awesome. I just started on Side B of one of his tapes in his History of Western Philosophy: Modern series. The side started basically at the end of one of his arguments (since it's side B), but it stands on its own. I'll reproduce it here because it's so awesome:

"Alright, so survival of the fittest suffers from a similar defect, in that it proves not to be a testable hypothesis at all. Because it's just an outlook that says, "Well, the survivors must have been the fittest ones". Oh, and how do you know that? "Well, because they survived". So the circle's complete. It's nothing but an ideological tautology. It's a vision of the world. Alright? It's a certain conception of how the world works. But it's not a conception that's been built up from factual analysis, and it's not a conception that can be tested by empirical facts. And this is the philosophical refutation of evolution as a scientific view."

Keep in mind that he is not necessarily saying that natural selection doesn't happen. He is saying that evolutionary theory can't be claimed to be supported on a purely scientific basis.

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I feel so crippled. I'm so frustrated. I just want to go to the guy who wrote that book I read, Programming Language Pragmatics, and ask him to "make me your research bitch, please!" I just really thought about it, and it's going to take me months of futzing around with everybody else in the class, whereas if I had one guy to teach me everything I could probably learn everything I'm going to learn in the two computer science classes I'm going to take next semester in about a week, full time. I've been frustrated my whole life... I wish I could stop being frustrated already.

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