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  • Read This or Else

    So I finished my last and only exam today. The following occured to me: In grad school, it’s not really writing exams that matters, but the threat of writing exams. See, marks don’t really matter. In a grad course, everyone is going to get a good mark no matter how well (or poorly) they do…

  • Magic Numbers

    I’ve blabbed a bit about DRM here before, mostly in the context of music. However, it’s also a problem with movies. I don’t know if any non-geeks noticed this, but the controversy over DRM came to a hilarious climax over the last few days. HD-DVDs, one of the new high-definition versions of DVD, are all…

  • Book Review: The Colorado Kid, by Stephen King

    Casual fans of Stephen King might have missed this book. It came out in 2005 as a little paperback published by Hard Case Crime – a small publisher of pulp mystery novels. I didn’t know it existed until recently. This is a tiny little story. The entire tale unfolds as a single conversation taking place…

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