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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.

— John Stuart Mill (view other epigraphs)

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READIN started out as a place for me to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly) how to design a web site.

There has been some mission drift here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of the main things I write about here are reading books, listening to (and playing) music, and watching the movies. Also I write about the work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.

The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.

See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.

READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.

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Not only is today Friday the 13th -- also it is a special day for the Unix clock. This evening at 30 seconds past 6:31, it is 1,234,567,890 seconds since the Unix epoch.

posted morning of Friday, February 13th, 2009

Sweet! Your dad sent me the link to this blog entry. Wow, time flies if you're a UNIX box. Another milestone approaches, one I think you will appreciate; the death of analog tv (see link).

Stable kernels and GUI shells . . . yummm

posted evening of February 14th, 2009 by Andy Goreff

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➪	An excerpt from the English translation of The Elephant's Journey is available at Saramago's web site; also Pilar has written up a brief introduction.
➪	Adam Roberts of The Valve links to an exciting new project: Roger Greenawalt and David Barratt are engaged in recording the complete works of The Beatles on ukulele, each song with a different guest singer.

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